PRESS INFORMATION ON BEHALF OF CLEGG CONSTRUCTION
ISSUED 9th July 2016
CLEGG CONSTRUCTION APPOINTEND ON £14M WORTH OF NEW CONTRACTS IN YORKSHIRE
The Leeds office of Clegg Construction has secured two new contracts worth over £14m.
They include an £8 million contract at Solly Street Sheffield for premium student accommodation provider, Empiric who own and operate student accommodation nationwide. This scheme involves the design and construction of 107 student rooms in four separate blocks and is due for completion summer of next year ready for the 2017 student intake.
Empiric is an internally managed UK REIT investing in premium student accommodation in the UK and was listed on the Main Market of the LSE in June 2014.
Clegg has already delivered over 1200 student accommodation units in Sheffield over the past 7 years in four separate projects with an aggregated construction value of £44million. The company is also currently working on a £3.5m scheme for the University of Sheffield to provide an extension to its Casting Technology Institute, which will create the largest ceramic shell mould facility in Europe when completed.
Clegg is also appointed to deliver a £6.3m new headquarters building at Calder Park, Wakefield for OE Electrics, which designs and manufacturers power and data distribution units across commercial sectors including office, education, leisure and healthcare. This includes fast USB charging as well as providing support to major stock exchanges around the world in order to keep them working in the case of power interruptions. This new 65,000 square foot building includes offices, research and development, advanced manufacturing and warehousing facilities and is scheduled to be complete early in 2017.
Business development manager, John Dixon, said: "These latest appointments reflect our growing profile in the area and the diverse sectors in which we operate. It is also encouraging to see increased client confidence in the value and calibre of projects that we can deliver and we are confident of having further new contracts to announce in the near future."
Clegg's Leeds office was established in 2012 and has already been involved with a number of high profile Leeds city centre contracts including the £4m refurbishment of 21 Queen Street for Formal Investments and the £5 million refurbishment of Minerva House.
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Notes to editor:
Clegg Construction is part of the Clegg Group, which was established in the Midlands as a small family business in 1930 and has grown to become a nationwide operation with a turnover in excess of £100m per annum.
The company has recently completed work on the national training academy for Siemens UK in Northamptonshire and is currently on site in Cambridge to provide 355 student accommodation units on behalf of Study Inn, this is our second project for this Client having recently successfully completed a 200 unit scheme in Nottingham.
The company was the contractor for Nottingham's new Energies Technology Building which was the first higher education BREEAM outstanding building in the UK and was runner up in 2014's Sustainable Building of the Year awards.