The Department for Business, Innovation & Skills has published a contract notice on the EU Official Journal today seeking a construction company to build the pavilion, with a budget of 拢3m to 拢6m for the contract.
The building will be used by the UK government to showcase 鈥淏ritain's distinctive qualities of creativity and enterprise鈥� to the Milan Expo next year. It will address the overall Expo theme, Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life. The Expo's central theme is nutrition, explored in terms of food production and consumption, but participating countries are also asked to examine how to nurture the environment and celebrate the life-enhancing and social aspects of food.
BIS says that the challenge for construction companies is to invent a structure that represents a British take on the Expo theme.
It adds: 鈥淭he project presents a fascinating opportunity for an exceptional team to come to world attention.鈥�
Further details of the competition procedure can be found in our Contract Leads section.
Here, for the construction contract.
And here for the design contract.
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