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CEF’s 2021 in numbers
2021 was another extraordinary year to be a representative trade association. We captured some of our activities in the following graphic to illustrate how we engage with and on behalf of the industry throughout the year.
CEF Work in Progress – September Update
The Construction Employers Federation (CEF) represents the interests of not only its member companies but also those of roughly 65,000 skilled workers engaged within the wider construction sector. CEF Managing Director, Mark Spence, discusses some of the issues the Federation is currently working on.
CEF backs industry mega-poll to track PI Insurance crisis
CEF is encouraging NI companies from across the industry to take part in the biggest ever review of construction’s growing professional indemnity insurance crisis. In recent years firms from across the industry have reported sharp increases in premiums for PI insurance, while also seeing stricter curbs on the levels of cover.
Construction industry facing a ‘perfect storm’
A resilient sector in the second half of 2020 – but one with significant concerns about short to medium term workloads, profit margins and delays in their supply chains. These are the key findings of the Construction Employers Federation State of Trade Survey covering the last six months of 2020. The survey, which was conducted in late December/early January and contained the responses of 80 Northern Ireland-headquartered construction firms with a combined turnover of £1.5bn per annum, reflected an industry that got back on its feet with the lifting of restrictions on its activity due to the pandemic but which, at the start of 2021, looks into as uncertain a future as it has done since the 2008 recession.