M&E installation at Broomfield

Shepherd Engineering Services (

) has been awarded a £14.2m contract to install mechanical and electrical (M&E) services at

in

.

The contract follows on from the installations at HOCLAS (the new Home Office headquarters) and at Peterborough schools - both PFI projects that SES has completed with main contractor Bouygues UK (BYUK).

Carlos Pinedo, project manager for BYUK, said: ‘Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust is engaged in a major project to achieve the centralisation and modernisation of acute services on the Broomfield Hospital site.

‘It’s imperative that, during the 30-month build programme, the hospital remains fully operational, so SES will work closely with us to ensure that the M&E work is completed seamlessly,' he added.

Derek Joiner, divisional director for SES, said: ‘An extensive coordination process was carried out at the start of the project to ensure smooth management of the M&E services and to guarantee that BYUK’s maintenance division, Ecovert, had high-quality services to work with at the end of the contract.