£4m contract for 14-storey flats project awarded

A £4m contract to work on a 14-storey apartment scheme in Birmingham has been won by a historic mechanical and electrical services company.J S Wright has been appointed by Galliard Homes to fit out all 379 apartments at the new Timber Yard development in Chinatown.The mixed-use scheme on Pershore Street will consist of two residential buildings of up to 14 storeys containing a mix of studio, one, two and three-bedroom apartments, along with 10,000 sq ft of ground-floor commercial space.The Timber Yard, named after its timber yard and plywood works history, is a joint venture between Galliard and Apsley House Capital.J S Wright will equip all the apartments at the development with direct electric hot water cylinders to provide residents with thermostatically controlled and pressurised hot and cold water.The company will also install a boosted cold water plant room with distribution pipework to all plots on the development.It will also fit all sanitaryware and an internal rainwater system, as well as the pipework required for all above-ground drainage management.The brief also includes installing a mechanical ventilation heat recovery system that will provide continuous ventilation to the apartments.