6 January 2012
The Ministry of Defence has awarded NG Bailey a contract to provide and maintain mechanical and electrical services at an Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) site.
NG Bailey’s specialist Engineering division is providing a multi-discipline, integrated M&E installation to two main buildings and a number of smaller support buildings for the AWE.
All the buildings are within a highly secure environment at the AWE’s site at Burghfield, in Berkshire, according to a statement by NG Bailey.
The largest of the buildings accounts for 80 per cent of the project value. Its construction is “a very substantial re-enforced cellular concrete structure of 3.5 acres plan area, built with 65,000 cubic metres (2.3 million cubic feet) of concrete and thousands of tonnes of steel”.
The whole facility will be protected by a network of 38 metre (125 foot) high towers with interlaced lightning conductors.
“This building will be completed earlier than the rest of the project and will then be maintained operational under an agreement with the facilities services company, pending completion of and integration with the rest of the project,” says the statement.
NG Bailey will also use a significant proportion of prefabricated materials, including a packaged plant-room supplied by the company’s Offsite Manufacture division.
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