G&H Building Services has been selected to help deliver a new £7.6 million extra care scheme in Derbyshire.

Keepmoat has appointed the contractor to carry out a £1.7m mechanical and electrical (M&E) services contract at the new 73-bed facility in Buxton. Completion is scheduled by the end of this year.

Designed by Glancy Nicholls Architects, the building will be made up of 53 two-bedroom extra care apartments and a specialist 20-place residential care centre, as well as communal facilities such as a restaurant, salon and health suite.


The M&E contract includes heating, ventilation, air conditioning, hot water, fire alarms, CCTV, data, small power and gas works. Once finished, Housing and Care 21 will manage the property and Derbyshire County Council will provide 24/7 onsite care services.

Director at G&H Building Services, Andrew Hudson, said: "This is a very important scheme given the need to provide more high quality, purpose built extra care facilities to accommodate the UK's increasingly expanding elderly population.

"It is our first contract with Keepmoat and is a result of the excellent work we have carried out for other large contractors across the UK.

"We actively participate in scheme concepts taking on shared risk at the earliest stages of the tendering process to provide the best value for the client.

"We then manage the building services process from initial designs to installation onsite."

Image: Courtesy of Glancy Nicholls Architects.

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