£9m contract for construction firm
Triton Construction has secured a series of contracts valued at £9 million to deliver the next significant expansion phases at Production Park in Wakefield.
Production Park is the world’s leading campus for live events, film, and TV where industry, education and innovation come together to create entertainment experiences. This latest project will see the site which is also home to state-of-the-art production studios, a higher education institution called Backstage Academy, and a community of live events businesses with expertise in stage design, production, and AV rental also become the base for XPLOR, will be the world’s first research and innovation centre for entertainment technology and production.
Having secured a £12 million cultural recovery fund loan from Government to develop the facilities at the award-winning campus including the delivery of XPLOR, as well as the expansion of its existing studio spaces and create managed workspace to nurture up and coming talent in the region, Triton Construction was awarded the full design and build contracts.
The project will see the firm to deliver a 42-metre x 32.8 metre x 20 metre high, performance research studio with a single storey ‘lean to’ of 5.5 metre x 34.5 metre to provide a total area of 16,871 sq. ft with high level rigging gantry. Triton is also building a 15,064 sq. ft two-storey building for offices, manufacturing, testing for XPLOR projects and teaching facility. Full infrastructure works and landscaping is also part of the remit.
The works form a part of an ongoing brief for Triton which completed the delivery of a 5-unit employment industrial and office facility and is currently converting and updating a recently purchased adjacent industrial unit to provide further manufacturing workspace, storage, and small business space at Production Park.
Paul Clarkson, managing director at Triton Construction said, “We are delighted to continue our partnership with Production Park to deliver these further significant contracts. This is a hugely ambitious and successful campus that we are excited to be involved with.
“The XPLOR project is very specialist due to the scale of space and heights required, technical fit out and sound requirements. We are working closely with the Production Park team as well as acoustics specialists to combine technologies in a new way to deliver sound proofing against the loudest outputs due to the built-up location.”
Jim Farmery, development director for XPLOR, said, “It’s great to have such a capable delivery partner on board in Triton Construction. We’re all really excited to see the building work underway and we can’t wait to see the XPLOR building take shape over the next few months.”
Triton has now started construction on site and expects to complete the expansion by the 3rd quarter of 2022.
