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Soft Landscaping Construction (non-domestic) - Over £500k

A scheme which is overwhelmingly soft landscape construction (may include small hard elements) with a total construction cost including materials to fit within the following:

NT KILLINGLEY

PRINCIPAL AWard WINNER 2019

UNIVERSITY OF NORTHAMPTON, WATERSIDE CAMPUS

Under separate contracts the contractor worked closely with both Bowmer & Kirkland and Kier Construction to deliver an exciting campus for the University of Northampton. The new Waterside Campus is home to 14,000 students, with 1,000 students living in the new accommodation village. The 58-acre brownfield site was formally the home of a large coal-fired power station.

The area has now been transformed following the demolition of the power station and the moving of high voltage infrastructure. The contractor was instrumental in delivering the soft landscaping scheme across the entire campus. This required the local sourcing and then spreading 50,000m3 of multiple growing mediums, supplying and installing 4 ha of wildflower seeding and 2.5 ha of amenity seeding, laying 1.6 ha of amenity turf and 0.8 ha of bespoke grown wildflower turf, and planting 1,100 no. standard trees and semi-mature trees, 100 no. mature trees, and 80,000 no. mixed shrubs, herbaceous, ferns and grasses. This challenging project was undertaken on a constantly developing site requiring the Killingley delivery team to be at its best.