Production Park is the world's premier campus for live events, film, and TV where industry, education and innovation come together to create entertainment experiences. The campus is home to state-of-the-art production studios with clients including Coldplay, Lady Gaga and Little Mix; a higher education institution called Backstage Academy offering degrees for the live events and creative industries; and a community of live events businesses with expertise in stage design, production, and AV rental. The latest addition, XPLOR, will be the world's first research and innovation centre for entertainment technology and production.
Last year, Production Park secured a £12m cultural recovery fund loan from Government to develop the facilities at the award-winning campus. The loan supports the delivery of XPLOR, as well as the expansion of its existing studio spaces and create managed workspace to nurture up and coming talent in the region. Additional funding to support the XPLOR project came to Backstage Academy from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).
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Following competitive tender, locally based Triton Construction was awarded the full design and build contracts to deliver a 42-metre x 32.8 metre x 20 metre high, performance research studio with a single storey ‘lean to’ of 5.5 metre x 34.5 metre to provide a total area of 16,871 sq. ft with high level rigging gantry. Triton is also building a 15,064 sq. ft two-storey building for offices, manufacturing, testing for XPLOR projects and teaching facility. Full infrastructure works and landscaping is also part of the remit.
The works form a part of an ongoing brief for Triton which completed the delivery of a 5-unit employment industrial and office facility and is currently converting and updating a recently purchased adjacent industrial unit to provide further manufacturing workspace, storage, and small business space at Production Park.
Paul Clarkson, Managing Director at Triton Construction said: "We are delighted to continue our partnership with Production Park to deliver these further significant contracts. This is a hugely ambitious and successful campus that we are excited to be involved with.
"The XPLOR project is very specialist due to the scale of space and heights required, technical fit out and sound requirements. We are working closely with the Production Park team as well as acoustics specialists to combine technologies in a new way to deliver sound proofing against the loudest outputs due to the built-up location."
