A HALIFAX steel supplier has won a £1m contract to provide the frame for the University of Huddersfield’s new development.
Elland Steel Structures, which also provided the framework for Leeds’ Central Square development, will create the 600-tonne steel skeleton for the Oastler Building in Huddersfield town centre.
The £28m building will provide a home for the University’s Law School and the School of Music, Humanities and Media. The six-storey building is being developed in a prime campus location opposite the Shorehead roundabout between Queensgate and Wakefield Road in the town.
It is the second major supplier deal that construction group Morgan Sindall has agreed with a local company after it sourced £210,000 of Yorkstone from Huddersfield-based Johnsons Wellfield Quarries.
Mark Heginbotham, project director from Morgan Sindall, said: “We have a commitment and objective to ensure as much value from this project is driven back into the local community. Sometimes this is small scale affecting just one or two people but then other times, like this, we are placing seven figure orders with local companies.
“Elland Steel have the right blend of experience, knowhow and passion to ensure they were the best fit for this project. We are sure it will become one of their pin-up projects and one of which they will be enormously proud.”
