Centurion building on a long-standing successful relationship with contractors Sir Robert McAlpine will be providing Northumbria University/Lockheed Martin fire engineering services throughout RIBA stages 2 to 5 for the development of the £50 m North East Space Skills and Technology Centre (NESST) Newcastle.
This 27m high building is billed as “a world-class R&D, educational and incubator facility for the regional, national, and international space sector”.
The building provided over ground plus six storeys will provide satellite manufacturing clean rooms, advanced prototyping laboratories, a Mission Operations Centre teaching laboratories and collaborative spaces for work with companies in the space manufacturing supply chain that will put the UK at the forefront of research and innovation in areas including optical satellite communications, space weather and space-based energy.
Centurions expertise knowledge and understanding at NESST builds on our other Space Industry projects which we are involved in at NetPark Durham, the North East construction industry truly is on a trajectory which is out of this world.
