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Tilbury Douglas wins first contract for Barbican Centre infrastructure renewal programme Tilbury Douglas has been awarded the first contract for the Barbican Centre’s £185M renewal programme to upgrade the building and its infrastructure. The #Barbican Centre’s #renewal programme is being brought forward to update facilities of the iconic central #London #theatre, #music venue and #art space so it meets the needs of 21st century #artists, #audiences and #communities. Aiming to display sensitive and #sustainableconservation and retrofit for one of the UK’s most “significant post war buildings”, an aim of the renewal programme is to repair the Barbican building to ensure it can continue to function long into the future, through an urgent programme of replacement and upgrade of key building systems. Further objectives include improving #wayfinding and #accessibility, delivering new and improved public spaces, bringing underused spaces into new creative use without adding any extra development. This includes investing in existing venues and bringing spaces that have laid dormant for years back to life. City of London also wants to make sure it is responding to the climate emergency and putting #sustainability at the heart of plans, contributing to the organisation's #netzero ambitions and investing in #environmental improvements that reduce water usage and increase #biodiversity across the site. The first Phase of works for this contract are worth £22.5M of a total £185M that the whole renewal programme has been estimated to cost. The City of London Corporation stated the award of subsequent phases of works will be subject to funding and contractor performance and that there is no guarantee that subsequent phases will be awarded under this contract. The first phase of the masterplan will address the most urgent works and is expected to include works being conducted to the concert hall auditorium, the theatre and art gallery. Duration of the contract is expected to last 10 years, although the City of London Corporation reserves a right to extend the contract by up to a further 10 years meaning the maximum length of the contract is 20 years. Tilbury Douglas managing director of engineering Ross Mather, Managing Director said: “Our engineering business has been awarded the Barbican Renewal Infrastructure Project, which continues our long-standing relationship with City of London.” In December, Buro Happold was awarded the contract to deliver the sustainability strategy for the Barbican renewal. https://lnkd.in/egXEss_7
