The UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council has appointed Russell WBHO to deliver a new £30m supercomputing centre at Daresbury Laboratory between Runcorn and Warrington in the Liverpool City Region.
The contract includes construction of the 33,000 sq ft building on a six-acre site to house two data halls, which will require a temperature of 21-24ºC to be maintained, and an office suite with ancillary facilities.
The works, to be undertaken alongside specialist data centre M&E consultancy Sudlows, are set to begin before the end of the year and the project is expected to take 21 months to complete.
Nick Sunderland, commercial director at Russell WBHO, said: “Our involvement through the planning and pre-construction phase, coupled with our knowledge of industrial and temperature-controlled facilities such as this, has enabled us to bring forward a viable budgeted programme to deliver this scheme.”
The new supercomputing centre will support the £210m Hartree National Centre for Digital Innovation programme, a collaboration between STFC Hartree Centre and IBM that provides industry access to digital technologies and expertise.
The wider team on the project includes management consultancy Arcadis, architectural firm AEW, structural engineering company Healy Consulting and environmental consultancy E3P.
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