Building Briefs: NBTY Europe, JS Wright, Lovell

SUPPLEMENTS manufacturer NBTY Europe has officially unveiled its £20m investment in the West Midlands with two new regional hubs.

The parent company to Holland and Barrett and Julian Graves has a new headquarters in Nuneaton and a distribution hub in Burton.

Samuel Ryder House is a £6m head office and store support centre, in Warwickshire, housing more than 160 staff and the central operations for all the company’s brands.

It is named after Samuel Ryder, the famous golfer and founder of Holland & Barrett, who set up the company from a market garden in the 1920s.

Burton 2 is the new 130,000 sq ft processing and packing plant which the company says was developed at a cost of more than £14m.

It compliments Burton 1, an existing warehouse and distribution base on the same site, Centrum 100 Business Park.

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BIRMINGHAM-based building services engineer JS Wright has won a £2.5m contract to fit out ‘Marconi House’ in London’s Strand.

It is working with joint venture partners Galliard Homes and Frogmore Real Estate Partners II to equip the 86 apartments and penthouses that have access to an adjoining five star hotel.

JS Wright is installing comfort heating and cooling, ventilation, hot and cold water services and above ground drainage for the development, which is scheduled for completion in August.

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TAMWORTH-based housing specialist Lovell has been chosen to deliver a £9m development of energy-efficient homes in Norfolk for housing association Flagship Peddars Way.

The overall scheme will create 66 houses, flats and bungalows, all for social rent, for the housing association.

The first phase of 22 properties is expected to be complete in March 2012 with the remaining 44 due to be finished by March 2013.