IN Brief:
- Adaston and Synergize have secured places on the £695 million Procure Plus building safety framework.
- Adaston has been appointed to fire precaution and compartmentation works on a national lot.
- Synergize has been appointed to external fabric improvements for medium- and high-rise buildings.
Adaston and Synergize have secured places on the £695 million Procure Plus Framework for Building Safety and Compliance Works and Associated Consultancy Services.
Adaston has been appointed to Lot 4, covering fire precaution and compartmentation works on a national basis. Synergize has secured a place on Lot 11, which focuses on external fabric improvements to medium- and high-rise buildings.
The framework provides public-sector bodies and housing providers with a compliant procurement route for building safety works. Its scope includes passive fire protection, fire doors, compartmentation, façade remediation, external fabric improvements, and wider building modernisation.
The appointments place both companies within a market that has become more structured and more demanding under the Building Safety Act and the higher-risk building regime. Remediation programmes now require a deeper evidence trail, from initial surveys and design coordination through to procurement, installation, inspection, and handover documentation.
Framework routes can reduce procurement uncertainty by giving public-sector bodies and housing providers access to pre-qualified contractors across defined workstreams. That is particularly valuable where projects involve occupied residential assets, resident communications, restricted access, and works that must be sequenced around fire strategy requirements.
The division between Adaston’s internal fire safety lot and Synergize’s external fabric lot reflects how remediation work is being packaged. Compartmentation, fire doors, service penetrations, façades, insulation, roofs, balconies, and external wall systems cannot be treated as isolated trades when their performance depends on survey accuracy and the interaction between systems.
Regulatory pressure is also changing pre-construction work. Gateway 2 approvals have become a critical stage for higher-risk buildings, and recent data showing more than 12,000 homes moving through the process still leaves a clear message for project teams: incomplete or poorly coordinated submissions carry programme risk before site work begins.
Within that environment, specialist delivery now depends on more than trade capability. Documented competence, clear installation records, inspection processes, and integration with wider design and compliance structures are becoming central to remediation programmes. Passive fire protection and external wall remediation both depend on quality that can be verified, not simply installed and photographed at the end of a package.
The framework arrives as councils, housing associations, and other building owners continue to turn survey findings into delivery programmes. The work is shifting from urgent post-Grenfell response into a longer compliance cycle, where asset owners must plan upgrades, secure approvals, manage budgets, coordinate residents, and retain records that can stand up to future scrutiny.
Demand for specialist fire safety and façade contractors is likely to remain steady, although capacity will be stretched by the need for qualified labour, experienced supervisors, and competent designers. Building safety work also carries reputational risk for every party involved, because poor documentation or defective installation can undermine the intended safety improvement.
Adaston and Synergize will now be able to compete for work through a national procurement route at a time when building safety remains one of the clearest areas of public-sector construction demand. Delivery teams that combine technical competence, resident-sensitive site management, and strong compliance records will be best placed to convert framework access into sustained workload.
