EYG Awarded Nottingham Student Accommodation Contract
Hull-based glazing specialists, the EYG Group, have landed a £1.45m contract to supply windows, curtain walling and doors for a new student accommodation complex for the University of Nottingham.
The contract is one of the biggest to be secured by the group’s commercial division in the current year and brings the total value of its recent successes to more than £3m.
EYG will undertake the Nottingham project through its Midlands subsidiary, Heatseal, although the design and site management will be carried out by a dedicated team based at the Group’s headquarters in Wiltshire Road, Hull. Production workers locally will also benefit as the Hull PVCu and aluminium factories will supply the Nottingham site.
The contract was awarded to EYG by Ocon Construction Limited, design and build contractors and an off-shoot of the Opal Property Group, one of the UK’s largest developers in the student accommodation sector.
EYG are supplying grey on white PVCu ‘tilt and turn’ windows, EYA aluminium curtain walling and commercial entrance doors over a period of 16 months. The company has previously worked with Ocon, supplying windows and doors more than 5,500 bed spaces on similar student developments in Leeds and Sheffield during the past three years.
Bernard Hastie, EYG’s major accounts manager, said: “This is yet another feather in the cap of our commercial division. We already have a good working relationship with Ocon, achieved through similar successful projects, but we still had to submit a proposal that met all the client’s quality, budget and time-scale requirements.
“The original specification for the Nottingham contract called for aluminium windows but we were able through our value engineering techniques to offer our specially developed grey on white PVCu to reduce costs and to help Ocon secure planning consent from the local authority.”
EYG is one of the country’s leading independent commercial glazing manufacturers and installers. The Group has a turnover in excess of £20m and employs around 300 people, most at its Hull headquarters.