Coventry contractor gets Warwick Trident College gig

DEELEY Construction from Coventry has won the contract to build Warwick Trident College’s new £1.3m engineering building.

Warwick-based property investment and development company AC Lloyd awarded Deeley the contract on a scheme which is part-funded by the Coventry and Warwickshire Local Enterprise Partnership.

It brings together the two firms boasting more than 150 years of industry experience between them, for the first time, to complete the three-storey building.

A C Lloyd also instructed three other local companies on the 18,000 sq ft project: architect Hitchman Stone, quantity surveyor Starkey Button and mechanical and electrical engineer Greenway.

AC Lloyd owns the site on the Trident Business Park, where it has already developed several properties.

Work is expected to be completed in August with the new facility, including specialist engineering workshops and teaching space, ready for the start of the academic year the following month.

It will train 285 advanced and 253 higher apprenticeships in the manufacturing, mechanical, electronic, automotive and product creation sectors.

Des Wynne, director of AC Lloyd, said: “This is a rapid development programme and Warwick District Council planners were very supportive in helping to fast-track the planning application process in order to make it happen.

“We have extensive experience in delivering educational buildings in the area, having built Warwick Trident College’s main campus building some ten years ago and which adjoins this site.”

This is the second Warwickshire College Group project that Deeley Construction has worked on in recent months following the extension of Pershore College.

Deeley managing director Martin Gallagher said: “Work is already under way on the site, which will play an important part in providing skilled workers to the region in the future.

“This is the first time we have collaborated with AC Lloyd and we are looking forward to building a prosperous partnership.”