Construction firm wins multi-million pound university contract

The Yorkshire office of Bardsley Construction has landed a £6.7m contract with the University of Huddersfield to refurbish and extend The Joseph Priestley Building.

The £50m turnover family-owned firm’s first major project for the university will provide improved teaching space with the refurbishment and remodelling of the ground, first and second floors of the building at the heart of the main campus.

Bardsley will also deliver a new four-storey extension to The Joseph Priestley Building including a new entrance, atrium and staircase and over-cladding of the North, public facing façade with finned metal feature cladding.

This project will deliver improved teaching and learning facilities and post graduate facilities for the School of Applied Sciences as well as greatly enhance the student experience.

Work on site started in April with the project due to be completed in November.

Alongside Bardsley Construction on the project delivery team are architects AHR, structural engineers TSP and M&E consultants ESP.

Rick Smeaton, Bardsley regional manager in Yorkshire, said: “This contract represents our first major project for The University of Huddersfield and provides the Yorkshire region office of Bardsley with an ideal opportunity to enhance our well-earned reputation for the delivery of high quality and bespoke educational facilities, adding to our growing portfolio of construction projects in Yorkshire, the North of England and the Midlands.”