London Architects, Canaway Fleming has designs housing for 1,510 workers building the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in Somerset, reports Building Design.
The design forms parts of plans for Hinkley Point, the first nuclear power station to be built in the UK since the mid-1990s, submitted by French utility firm EDF Energy to the new Infrastructure Commission. The commission, whose planning powers bypass local authorities, will begin studying the 30,000-page submission next month ahead of making a recommendation to the government in December. Meanwhile, the only remaining consortium with no French partners bidding for the £2.5bn civils job to build a nuclear power station at Hinkley has been cut out of the race for the job, according to Building.
According to separate sources, the “ConstructEnergy” consortium of Costain, Sir Robert McAlpine and German firms Heitkamp and Hochtief has been told by French utility EDF, which is the ultimate client for the project, that it is no longer in with a chance of winning the key contract. The decision means the remaining consortiums in the running for the prime job on the new reactor are Balfour Beatty with Vinci, and Laing O’Rourke with Bouygues.
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