Vital Energi lands £12m package for Berkeley Homes at Oval

Vital Energi has been awarded the £12m design and build contract for M&E and heating work on the first of seven blocks of Berkeley Homes’ Oval Village development in London.Oval Village will contain 1,309 new homes across seven buildings alongside leisure facilities and over 15,000 square metres of community, commercial, office and retail space, including an on-site Tesco.Located next to the Oval international cricket ground, the development also boasts a hectare of landscaped gardens.Vital Energi will take the project from the initial RIBA stage 4, through to RIBA stage 5 for the design, install and commissioning on Oval Village block A.Designs for the temporary energy centre have been completed and work includes the design and build of a buried district heating system and installing the mechanical and electrical infrastructure for 344 apartments which are serviced by five cores and rise to 18 floors.Oval Village block A is due for completion in August 2022.