DBK APPOINTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER’S £400 MILLION PROPERTY FRAMEWORK
Construction, property and development consultancy DBK has been selected to provide project management, quantity surveying, CDM coordination and utility planning services to the University of Leicester for a four year period. The total expenditure that is allotted to the entire property consultancy framework is in the region of £400 million.
The consultancy framework divides the specialist areas of work into various value brackets and DBK has been awarded high value bands in the consultancy areas it has been selected to deliver.
The property framework has been established to enable the University of Leicester to implement the radical changes proposed by the £1 billion Development Framework Plan produced by masterplanners Shepheard Epstein Hunter. The Plan will create 50 per cent more space, mainly by extending and transforming existing 19th and 20th Century buildings. This will allow on-campus student numbers to expand from 10,000 to 15,000 over the next 20 years.
Alan Stewart, director in DBK’s Birmingham office comments: “We have a long standing relationship with the University of Leicester’s property team, so it is tremendous to have been successful across so many areas of the consultancy framework tender process.
“The University of Leicester has a very forward thinking approach to investing in and expanding its campus in order to accommodate significant growth in its student population. We are very excited about working as part of the project team to deliver 50 per cent more space, together with high quality public realm, creating a highly sustainable 21st Century university campus.”