Willmott Dixon has won an £18 million contract to build a next generation emergency services hub in Lincolnshire.

Designed by NORR Architects, the 'blue light' facility brings together Lincolnshire’s fire and rescue services, police force and ambulance service under one roof.

As part of the development, Willmott Dixon will demolish the current Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue HQ on South Park Avenue to make way for the new combined facility.

The project is the latest next generation facility that the contractor has been commissioned to build and follows similar establishments in Blackpool, Grimsby, Birmingham, Sheffield, Newcastle, Barnsley and South Wales. Overall, these facilities aim to create an environment that generates better efficiencies by allowing emergency service teams to work together in one place, rather than in a network of smaller offices dispersed across a wide area.

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Work on the new headquarters is scheduled to be complete in September next year.

Marc Jones, the Police and Crime Commissioner for Lincolnshire, said: "By sharing headquarters with the fire and rescue service, both organisations can adapt more easily to change and improve their ways of working, including making best use of technological advancements that are so important to efficiency. The new tri-service campus will allow us to create an operational and integrated base fit for the next generation."

Willmott Dixon Managing Director for the Midlands, Peter Owen, said: "This is part of a major transformation we are seeing in how the emergency services organise their estates to work more effectively and efficiently. We are really pleased to be chosen to build this cutting edge facility for Lincolnshire's emergency services in Lincoln."

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