Bardsley Construction secure £6.7m contract to redevelop University of Huddersfield building

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

This project will see the £50m-turnover firm provide enhanced and improved teaching space via the refurbishment and remodelling of the ground, first and second floors of the building at the centre of the main campus.

Bardsley will also deliver a brand 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.

Work on site started in April 2017, with the whole project due to be completed in November 2017.

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

Rick Smeaton, Bardsley regional manager in Yorkshire, commented: “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.”

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