Television Centre
22/01/2014 by Buildington

Lend Lease, the integrated property and infrastructure group, has won the contract to carry out the major refurbishment of BBC Television Centre at White City in West London.

Lend Lease will carry out refurbishment work on Stage 6 of Television Centre to provide new headquarters for BBC Worldwide, the commercial subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation.

The contract comes just six months after Lend Lease was awarded the project's pre-construction works, completed last month. The company's relationship with the BBC includes having previously delivered both the MediaCityUK studios in Salford and the refurbishment of Broadcasting House in London.

The central feature of the refurbished Stage 6 will be a new light-well with a bespoke ribbon-like staircase running down through the middle of the building, designed to maximise the amount of natural light in the building.

This stage will include the removal of the existing staircase, risers and lifts in the central core, followed by the creation of new risers and lift shafts.

Dan Labbad, Lend Lease's Group Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer in Europe, said: "We are excited to be working with the BBC again, following the successful delivery of MediaCityUK in Salford and Broadcasting House in London."

"This latest success builds on the strong progress we have made during the last 12 months. We have taken major steps forward on our £1.5bn Elephant & Castle regeneration project – construction is well underway at both our One The Elephant and Trafalgar Place residential developments – and last month we won the £100m contract to build Beacon Barracks in Staffordshire for the Ministry of Defence."

Source: Lend Lease www.lendlease.com 22. January 2014

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