Birmingham property contractor seals £17m deal for London's Silk District community

Building services provider J S Wright has secured a contract worth around £17m to fit out one of the city’s biggest residential developments.

The Birmingham-based company, which has an office at Trafalgar Square, will design and build all the mechanical and electrical services for the first phase of The Silk District in Whitechapel.

J S Wright will provide the services for 412 homes and communal areas that make up the first phase of a larger development totalling 648 homes being built on the site of a former storage facility.

The company will provide the services for The Jacquard and The Georgette, two buildings of 20 floors and seven floors respectively, including a residents’ workspace, cinema room, gym and a 24-hour concierge.

Phil Leech, J S Wright’s managing director, said: “We are delighted that our long-established and highly successful partnership with Mount Anvil has led to the opportunity to play a major role in the regeneration of a vibrant area of east London.”

Its total of 412 studio, one, two, three and four-bed apartments will comprise 303 for private sale and 109 ‘affordable’ homes to be managed by L&Q.

The company will also install a boosted cold-water tank room and distribution network to enable all the homes to receive instant domestic hot and cold-water services.

In addition, J S Wright will equip both buildings with a mechanical ventilation heat recovery system that will reduce energy costs.

Work is scheduled to begin on site later this month with completion scheduled for September 2021.

Want your business, product or service to be seen regionally and nationally? Bdaily helps you get your story in front of the right audience, every day. Find out how Bdaily can help →

Join more than 55,000 subscribers by signing up to our daily bulletin each morning here.