Morgan Sindall wins £47m Liverpool Knowledge Quarter work

Liverpool City Council has signed up Morgan Sindall to deliver two projects as part of the local authority’s Paddington Village scheme.

The jobs form part of the planned £1bn extension to the city’s Knowledge Quarter and were awarded through the North West Construction Hub framework.

Plans for Paddington Village will see the 30-acre site, located just off Smithtown Lane, to the east of the city centre, developed into three plots – Paddington North, Paddington Central and Paddington South.

Morgan Sindall’s successful tender will see the firm deliver two distinct projects on the central plot. 

Paddington Village will alsobe home to a new train station to connect it to the Merseyrail network.

The first phase of work, worth around £12m, and due to start on site in summer 2017, will involve the installation of infrastructure and formation of development plots to make them market-ready. 

The second phase will see Morgan Sindall design and build a new £35m Northern Centre of Excellence for the Royal College of Physicians.

RCP is expected to take almost half of the available 140,000 sq ft of space, and work with LCC to find other associated institutions and life science businesses to let the remainder.

Morgan Sindall area director in the North West, Barry Roberts, said that pre-construction had already started, with the building due to handover in late 2019. 

The Liverpool operation of Morgan Sindall has taken residence in a new office at Liverpool Science Park – in the park’s Innovation Centre 3 on Mount Pleasant, which was originally built by Morgan Sindall in 2014.

 

from Construction Enquirer http://www.constructionenquirer.com/2017/01/18/morgan-sindall-wins-47m-liverpool-knowledge-quarter-work/

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