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Project manager wanted for £60m research centre

Grant Prior 11 years ago
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The University of Birmingham has started the hunt for a construction project manager for its new £60m aero engine research centre.

The High Temperature Research Centre. is being developed in association with Rolls Royce and will help make air travel greener and more efficient.

Rolls Royce is providing £40m of funding for the centre with the Higher Education Funding Council for England investing £20m.

The University has now published an OJEU notice for a project manager to support construction of the new centre at Ansty Park next to its existing Manufacturing Technology Centre.

Up to five firms will be invited to bid and interested firms should make contact by February 5 with University of Birmingham UK Procurement Division, Aston Webb ‘B’ Block, Edgbaston http://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofbirmingham Matt Home B15 2TT Birmingham UNITED KINGDOM +44 1214143648 m.home@bham.ac.uk +44 1214143499 or online at in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofbirmingham

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