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Battersea contractor begins to reopen sites with vastly reduced workforce

By 2020-04-07T10:24:00

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Mace shut construction sites two weeks ago

Mace will begin reopening some of its 90 sites that have been closed for two weeks because of the coronavirus pandemic today.

The firm was forced to pull down the shutters on jobs on March 24 – a day after the prime minister effectively put the UK on a lockdown to deal with the outbreak.

Building Design understands that around 20 sites will reopen but the workforce will be significantly reduced with just 400 people working across all reopened jobs.

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