MSM have started works to construct a two-storey shell retail unit for Next at Bloomfield Shopping Centre in Bangor, Co. Down. The £1.1m project is being delivered under the JCT Design & Build form of contract with consultant firms, WDR & RT Taggart and Semple & McKillop novated to the Design & Build team. Bruce Shaw LLP is acting as project manager on behalf of the client.

Works will involve:

– Stripping out, demolitions, structural alterations and raising floor levels within the existing retail unit

– Construction of a double-height extension to provide a new two-storey retail unit for Next, completed to a shell finish for shop fit-out by others

– Remodelling of the shopping centre management suite at first floor level

– Formation of a new secondary retail unit

– Minor site improvement works to front of new Next retail unit

– Provision of additional car parking adjacent to Smyths Toys

Our contracts director, John Greig, stated “MSM are proud to be working on another project at Bloomfield Shopping Centre, building on our experience of successfully delivering previous projects within this busy shopping centre and extending our retail portfolio. We look forward to continuing our working relationship with the centre management and ensuring project handover in line with our client’s requirements.”

The works at Bloomfield Shopping Centre are programmed over 19 weeks with completion during mid-December 2015.