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• Winners named on £8bn Procure Partnerships deal

  05-09-2023 09:27 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Procure Partnerships Framework has appointed 87 contractors to its second-generation national framework.
  Thirty five contractors were reappointed on the next iteration of the mega framework, structured across nine sub-regional lots covering 5 value bands starting at 50K and going up to over £50m.
  The refreshed framework covers Construction and three new areas: Decarbonisation and Retrofit, Demolition and Site Preparation, and Infrastructure.
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• Failure of three ‘non-critical’ RAAC beams forced safety rethink

  05-09-2023 08:57 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The education secretary has revealed that the sudden failure over the summer of three RAAC concrete planks previously classified as non-critical prompted the decision to close over 100 schools.
  In a statement to Parliament Gillian Keegan said surveyors discovered the non-critical RAAC failures during a programme of assessments started last September.
  This led to the identification of three previously classified non-critical risk failures that happened without warning.
  The first was in a commerci
  
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• More jobs go as Eurocell issues profit warning

  05-09-2023 08:49 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Eurocell has confirmed another round of redundancies with around 100 jobs going as the UPVC specialist issued a profit warning.
  The materials giant let some of its 2,000 staff go in a restructuring late last year as the market tightened.
  Its latest results revealed more job losses as the firm’s core housing market continued to deteriorate.Eurocell said: “Further deterioration in market conditions since July Trading Update means full year performance now anticipated to be below our pr
  
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• Worker breaks every bone in his face in roof plunge

  05-09-2023 08:26 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A Cumbrian contractor has been fined after a man broke every bone in his face falling 10m through the roof of an industrial unit.
  Craig Dickson, 39, from Carlisle, suffered multiple serious fractures, in the incident on Heathlands Industrial Estate, Kingmoor Park, Carlisle, on 25 March 2022.
  CK Steelwork & Cladding Ltd were the contractor undertaking work on the roof of the building. The roof was known to be fragile, and, at the time of the incident, safety nets were being erected below the
  
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