A NORTH East consultancy has been awarded a key role in the construction of a Net Zero innovation centre in Middlesbrough.

Newcastle-based Summers-Inman will project manage and provide quantity surveying services on the research and innovation facility, which will support the region’s ongoing drive for clean energy and sustainability.

The firm’s appointment follows on from plans unveiled earlier this year by Teesside University and Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen to develop a new £13.5m Net Zero Industry Innovation Centre (NZIIC) at the Tees Advanced Manufacturing Park in Middlesbrough.

Appointed by Teesside University, Summers-Inman returns to steer the NZIIC to completion, having begun its work on the project earlier in the year.

The next primary task will be to successfully select and appoint a suitable main contractor to build the scheme and once this is done, Summers-Inman will be responsible from a cost, quality and time perspective.

Summers-Inman’s associate director, Andrew Rapmund, said: “Our intention is to create a national facility for technological research, development, demonstration and transfer, aimed at facilitating the transition of the Tees Valley and the UK’s engineering industries to more sustainable, low carbon processes and products.

“We are delighted to be working closely with and representing the university’s interests once again on such a major project – one that not only places the region at the forefront of the clean energy agenda, but also has the potential to act as a catalyst for further massive investment and create thousands of jobs."

 

 

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