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Alfred McAlpine wins multi-million pound job
00:00 01 Aug 2001
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by Glenda Thisdell
Alfred McAlpine is staking its claim to being both developer and contractor with a multi-million pound project to build a "futuristic business park" and "self-contained village community" for 15,000-plus people.
The Cambourne Business Park and village scheme is being built on 202 greenfield hectares, bought by McAlpine Homes, within five miles of Cambridge, an area dubbed England's "Silicon Valley" for its concentration of high technology businesses. Bovis Homes and Bryant Homes were brought in as partners on the deal.
Divisional managing director Bob Tattrie described the potential for development of the site as "enormous" given the combination of huge demand for modern office space in Cambridge and the draconian planning restrictions within the town itself.
McAlpine Special Projects is the contractor for phase II of the project - three office blocks totaling 9,290m2 and worth £20m. Four more plots are to come; the next will contain a single 14,860m2 office scheme.
Special Projects will act as developer and builder for the village high street, and will start building the first phase in September.
The grand plan also specifies some 6,000 homes, two schools, a library, leisure facilities, a doctors' surgery and a church. "Everything is there," said Tattrie.
Alfred McAlpine is staking its claim to being both developer and contractor with a multi-million pound project to build a "futuristic business park" and "self-contained village community" for 15,000-plus people.
The Cambourne Business Park and village scheme is being built on 202 greenfield hectares, bought by McAlpine Homes, within five miles of Cambridge, an area dubbed England's "Silicon Valley" for its concentration of high technology businesses. Bovis Homes and Bryant Homes were brought in as partners on the deal.
Divisional managing director Bob Tattrie described the potential for development of the site as "enormous" given the combination of huge demand for modern office space in Cambridge and the draconian planning restrictions within the town itself.
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McAlpine Special Projects is the contractor for phase II of the project - three office blocks totaling 9,290m2 and worth £20m. Four more plots are to come; the next will contain a single 14,860m2 office scheme.
Special Projects will act as developer and builder for the village high street, and will start building the first phase in September.
The grand plan also specifies some 6,000 homes, two schools, a library, leisure facilities, a doctors' surgery and a church. "Everything is there," said Tattrie.
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