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Willmott Dixon has secured its second landmark university campus project in two weeks with Aberystwyth University appointing the company for its £27 million Innovation and Enterprise Campus.
Willmott Dixon has been selected for the pre-construction stage to work with the university’s team to develop a detailed technical design for the new campus, which will provide world leading facilities and the expertise to create market focused solutions for the agri-tech industry.
The contact follows the company’s appointment at the start of the month for Kingston University’s landmark Town House building, and is the second major university project Willmott Dixon has been chosen to deliver in Wales in the last six months, with the company also involved with Swansea University’s £31m Computational Foundry.
Proposed features at Aberystwyth Innovation and Enterprise Campus (AIEC) will include a Bio-refining Centre, Future Food Centre, Analytical Science laboratories and a Seed Processing and Biobank Facility. It will also provide formal and informal meeting areas and office/laboratory accommodation for companies committed to innovate.
Located on the existing Gogerddan Campus, it will provide a progressive environment to encourage business and academic collaboration and offer high quality facilities to support translational research and innovation, enabling commercial enterprises to drive economic growth in Mid -Wales and beyond.
One of the existing buildings which will form part of the AIEC has already been refurbished to a high standard and provides over 300m2 of rentable office accommodation to the business community.
Neal Stephens, managing director for Willmott Dixon in Wales:
“We will work with the design team, using our experience and capabilities, to provide the best solutions for the Innovation and Enterprise Campus and help the university have world-class facilities to attract businesses, academic staff and students to drive growth in the economy.”
A final planning
application for the Campus has been submitted to Ceredigion County Council with
a decision expected in the Spring of 2017. If planning permission is granted,
construction is proposed to start mid-2017 and is expected to take two years to
complete.
Willmott Dixon has a long track-record of enhancing university estates, using its knowledge of live-environment working to minimise disruption. It’s £300 million recent workload includes creating a ‘living-green wall’ for Teesside University, building and extending Birmingham City University’s Curzon building, creating Bournemouth University’s new flagship ‘Fusion’ building and Leicester University’s Passivhaus certified Centre for Medicine.
It was recently appointed to build an annexe to the Schuster Building for the University of Manchester which is home to the School of Physics and Astronomy and has just completed an upgrade to the University of Derby’s STEM building and new campus in Scarborough for Coventry University.
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