MITIE has been awarded an £11m contract to provide mechanical, electrical, public health and specialist services for a new 10,000m2 building for the Department of Materials, Science and Metallurgy in Cambridge. 

The project involves the construction of a number of specialist laboratory facilities including an electron microscopy suite. 

MITIE, specialists in energy efficiency and sustainability, has designed a mixed ventilation system to maximise the use of natural ventilation supplemented by mechanical cooling. 

An open loop cooling system will recycle water throughout the building and rainwater will be harvested for irrigation and WCs. 

Over 200m2 of photovoltaic panels will generate the electrical equivalent of 23kW, yielding savings of 9800 kg CO2 emissions per year. 

The entire plant room will be built off-site at MITIE’s specialist workshop in Exeter, speeding up delivery time and ensuring quality control. 

Bill Robson, Managing Director of MITIE’s Property Management business, said: “This latest project at Cambridge University is a big win and we’re committed to a timely delivery, adding value and energy savings for Cambridge University and our partners” 

The target for the building is to attain a BREEAM “Excellent” and an Energy Performance Certificate rating of “B” 

The design and installation project, on behalf of Willmott Dixon Construction will be completed in February 2013. 

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Notes for editors

What is MITIE?
We’re the strategic outsourcing company. What does that mean in practice? We manage facilities, properties and assets for our clients across the UK and beyond.

We work with our clients in three ways; some take full advantage of our whole range of expertise, others may only need one aspect of what we do:

Strategy and consultancy
+ Facilities and project management
+ Service delivery

Our strategic input can add value at the highest level by helping clients to manage their assets, while our practical management expertise can save customers money and reduce their carbon emissions. We work with a vast number of clients in every industry across both the public and private sectors and deliver the broadest range of services that can be found in one place: from integrated facilities management to engineering maintenance to lifecycle energy management and much more.

There’s a lot more to MITIE than you probably think. We’re a big company with big ambitions – a leading FTSE 250 support services business, with more than 61,000 people, revenues in excess of £1.9bn, and a reputation for being the best.

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