by Sarah Topping | Jun 22, 2018 | Contract awards, News
We are delighted to confirm that our Manchester office has been selected as preferred bidder for the construction of the Birley Fields Student Accommodation project for Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU). This £29.5 million project will see the construction of three blocks of student accommodation that will be 16, 11 and 6 storeys high, providing 491 student beds in total. MMU is the largest campus based undergraduate university in the UK with a student population of 37,000. Birley Fields will increase the availability of quality student accommodation for the MMU student population. This will be our third project for MMU following the successful delivery of a Scape project and the good relationship we have built with them on our current 6 Great Marlborough Street project. The site is located in a prominent elevated city centre location just off Princess Parkway, providing another opportunity to further raise our profile in the city centre and in the student accommodation sector. This project means that we now have 1,345 student beds in various stages of project delivery across Northern. The project will consist of an in situ concrete frame, traditional brickwork facades, offsite manufactured bathroom pods and the full internal fit out inclusive of all furniture, fixtures and equipment. Works are planned to start on site in early 2019 with a 100 week construction programme. ...
by Sarah Topping | Apr 24, 2018 | Contract awards, News, Project Information
Over the course of the last 4 years we have worked with Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust to develop their outline business case and subsequent full business case. I am pleased to announce that the full business case received Treasury approval on Thursday 1st March 2018. We subsequently signed the main contract at the end of March 2018 for an agreed GMP of £48.33m, which makes it the largest single project that Kier Construction Northern have ever undertaken. Works are due to commence on site on the 23 April 2018 for a duration of 106 weeks with completion planned for June 2020. Yesterday we held a ground breaking ceremony to celebrate the start of works on site. The project is a joint venture with Kier M&E and consists of a 123 bed mental illness and learning disabilities medium secure facility split across eight wards with supporting accommodation, on the Maghull Health Park in Liverpool. Once completed, it will provide class leading medium secure mental health...
by Sarah Topping | Jan 31, 2018 | Contract awards, News, Project Information
We are delighted to announce that we have been named as preferred bidder to build a brand new iconic Shakespeare North Playhouse for Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council. The £19m attraction is the first of its kind in Knowsley and the Liverpool City Region and will sit in the heart of Prescot town centre. When complete, it will house a 350-seat theatre, performance studio, exhibition and education centre, coffee shop and office space. Plans for a theatre in Prescot are more than 10 years in the making. The vision of Shakespeare North is to celebrate the Elizabethan and Jacobean heritage of Knowsley, a place with historic links to the Earl’s of Derby and Lord Strange’s men. Work is due to start on site mid-2018 with construction work due to complete to coincide with William Shakespeare’s birthday in April 2020. The Playhouse will then welcome its first guests later that year. As part of the project, we will be working with the local supply chain to strengthen the local economy. During construction 11 new apprenticeships and seven new jobs will be created and work placement, training, education and community activities for local schools will also be available. Once complete, the Shakespeare North Playhouse will create over 200 permanent roles while bringing £5.3m Gross Value Added to the Liverpool City Region and attracting over 100,000 visitors every...
by Sarah Topping | Sep 27, 2017 | Contract awards, News
Kier, a leading property, residential, construction and services group, is delivering a new facility for Liverpool International College in a £28m project for Kaplan International. Kier will deliver a 47,000sq ft, 13-storey, 259-bed student accommodation block and a three-storey college building for up to 900 students for the college, which will be partnered with University of Liverpool. The scheme, due to open in September 2019, will be a flagship development in Liverpool Knowledge Quarter’s Paddington Village, a £1 billion, 450-acre urban innovation district that will be home to some of the world’s most influential players in science, health, technology, education, music and the creative and performing arts. It marks Kier’s second project in the area, building on the success of its recently completed Sensor City project for Liverpool John Moores University and the University of Liverpool. John O’Callaghan, Kier Construction Northern managing director, said: “We’re thrilled to be delivering this exciting scheme, which will provide important facilities for students in the heart of Liverpool. “We’re looking forward to working with Kaplan International, using our team’s experience and expertise in similar projects to deliver a quality, high-profile project to be proud of.” The project adds to Kier’s presence in Liverpool, where the company employs over 130 people. As well as Sensor city, Kier is responsible for a number of key projects on the Mayor’s Liverpool Schools programme. It also builds on Kier’s wider portfolio of education projects across the North. The company was recently awarded a £28m contract to deliver student accommodation in Leeds and its 329-bed student accommodation scheme in Newcastle is nearing completion. The Construction Index – Kaplan...
