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The Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) new Estates Professional Services framework has the potential to save the public sector £35 million over the next four years.
With £430 million expected to be spent through the framework over that period, the framework provides NHS trusts, as well as local councils, schools and the emergency services, with advice on how to best manage their estates and assets, reduce property costs, release unwanted property assets, and identify savings and opportunities to generate income from land and buildings.
The framework, which will be structured in four lots, offers a wider range of services and provides access to vertical real estate suppliers for the first time, as well as a managed procurement offering.
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UK Building Regulations highlight toxic gas and smoke from layers of paint built up over multiple redecorations as a major cause of permanent ill health or death in a building fire.
Their concern rose with discovery the flame retardant paints most widely used paint along escape routes have been ones which to this day counter-productively use emission of heavy toxic gas to smother flames which rapidly spread along walls if layers of paint delaminate in a fire.
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