Wakefield Civic Offices
Leeds office has been awarded a high profile £4m commercial contract by Morgan Sindall for the new civic offices development in the heart of Wakefield city centre.
Balfour Beatty Engineering Services (BBES) is supplying and installing mechanical and electrical services for the modern five-storey office development comprising 123,000ft2 in Burton Street, Wakefield. The new civic building is part of the second phase of a regeneration scheme in the area.
The new building for English Cities Fund (ECf) will comprise open plan office space with a central atrium, extensive glazing and external rainscreen cladding with terracotta tiles. Environmental initiatives will include the introduction of a rainwater harvesting system and biomass boiler which will help to reduce CO2 emissions and achieve a BREEAM rating of Excellent.
The project has a considerable passive chilled beam arrangement which will interlink with the BBES prefabricated pipe work/containment modules and risers. BBES is also undertaking the acoustic cladding of the pipe work modules that form the internal walkways in order to provide a turnkey solution.
The BBES contract, which is being overseen by operations manager James Mason and on-site project manager Martin Petts, is starting on site in April 2011 with completion towards the end of 2011.
Buro Happold is the consultant on the project and the ultimate client is Wakefield Metropolitan District Council.
Posted: Wednesday 16 March 2011