Sweett Group the property and infrastructure consultancy has won the mandate to provide cost consultancy services on the £200m new engineering campus development (MECD) for the University of Manchester.

The MECD will be the largest project ever undertaken by the University and will feature new build, as well as refurbished accommodation, for four individual schools within the Engineering and Physical Sciences Faculty. A total of 71,000m2 of University space will be analysed, rationalised and re-designed to create the new development, housing several thousand students and staff.

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The University of Manchester plans to invest £1bn over the next ten years to create a single site campus, with the first phase of the £700m plan to be delivered over the next six years.

"This is a fantastic appointment; education is our third largest sector in the UK, with Sweett Group now working for 75% of the UK’s leading universities. By securing this role it demonstrates our increasing presence at the forefront of higher education projects," commented Derek Pitcher, Managing Director, Sweett Group.

(CD/MH)