The north west of England is one
of Capita Symonds' busiest regions, home to a mix of
iconic projects and innovative partnerships with local
authorities.
In July 2001, Blackburn with Darwen Borough
Council and Capita Symonds began a pioneering 15-year partnership
intended to modernise council services and achieve growth. Worth
over £210 million, the partnership delivers a range of services to
the council. Since its launch, the partnership has exceeded its
targets, leading to the creation of 620 new jobs and over the 15
years will deliver efficiency savings (including costs of risk
transfer, fee reductions and investment savings) estimated at over
£24m. Blackburn with Darwen has been Local Government Chronicle
'Council of the Year' in 2002 and 2011.
Urban Vision, our joint venture partnership
with Salford City Council and Morrison Highways
Maintenance also has over 500 employees delivering a wide
range of schemes and services and our partnership with Sefton
Metropolitan Borough Council also employs 125 staff.
In 2010 Capita Symonds also acquired
commercial property experts NB Real Estate, with offices in
Manchester, and our structures team has a large presence in Cheadle
Hulme. Capita Symonds' Industrial team also has its head office in
Warrington.
Capita Symonds’ projects in the
region include:
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Spinningfields: The ongoing £1bn Spinningfields
development (pictured) in Manchester City Centre is creating a
new, high quality commercial and mixed use European business
destination. Capita Symonds has been providing ongoing civil and
structural engineering design services on various parts of the
project for more than 10 years.
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St Helens Diagnostic & Treatment Centre (DTC): The
£100m St Helens DTC is designed around a dramatic central atrium
which makes the whole building intuitively easy to move
around.
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MediaCityUK: The BBC will relocate 1,600 jobs from
London and 800 jobs from Manchester to this new site by the end of
2011.
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Academy of St Francis Assisi: Situated on a
former brownfield site in one of Liverpool's most deprived areas,
the celebrated Academy of St. Francis of Assisi was the UK’s first
ever ‘eco-school’.
- Manchester University:
Capita Symonds was appointed to undertake an estates strategy cost
plan as part of the unification of the Victoria University of
Manchester and the University of Manchester Institute of Science
and Technology (UMIST). We have delivered a number of projects for
the University, including the
recently-opened Science Discovery Centre at its Jodrell Bank
Observatory.
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Lancashire BSF: Lancashire’s £400m BSF (Building
Schools for the Future) programme - the first major wave of schools
to be built in the UK under BSF - covers a total of 18 education
and community projects, including 13 new schools catering for
almost 10,000 students across ten sites.
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