Matrix powers ahead with £182m Gateway South contract
Connections provider Matrix Networks has won a contract to design and install the electrical services connection to bring the new £182m Gateway South commercial park in Coventry to life.
The contract, awarded by developer Roxhill via main contractor Buckingham Group, follows hot on the heels of Matrix Networks’ successful completion of the multi-utility infrastructure works for the SEGRO Logistics Park – East Midlands Gateway in Leicestershire last month.
With work already starting on site, the brief is to design and build a primary substation to provide electricity on the 200-acre development which surrounds Coventry Airport.
Matrix will be designing and installing electrical infrastructure to bring a 33kVa electrical supply into the park, providing a load of 20MVA to power the commercial units located across both the northern and southern sections of the development.
Matrix Networks managing director, Rob Sparkes, said: “Gateway South is more than a contract win, its repeat business from a valued client, with whom we’ve developed a positive, long-term relationship.
“We’re delighted to have the opportunity to demonstrate once again, how important collaborative working is for the successful delivery of utility infrastructure projects. And, over the next 12 months, our experienced team will work with Roxhill and their other development partners, to ensure we communicate, integrate and deliver ‘power on’ to bring Gateway South to life on time.”
Previous contracts between Matrix Networks and Roxhill include Gateway Peterborough, a 180-acre distribution and manufacturing park at Junction 17 of the A1(M), and Kettering Gateway, a 90-acre business park with mixed use at Junction 10 of the A14.
Martin Eckersall, infrastructure director, Roxhill added: “Cost and programme certainty are two of our most important considerations when procuring utility contracts. Matrix Networks has consistently provided this for us, over a significant period of time and I’m pleased to be working with them to deliver Gateway South.”
