Evolving Nissan’s manufacturing site

With a design team located in an onsite office, we play an integral role, evolving facilities in line with strategy and productivity requirements.

Applying world-class engineering and cost-effective construction, we’ve expanded and updated production lines; built manufacturing for components and batteries; and created access roads and test tracks.

To date this amounts to more than 80 contracts completed at the Sunderland site.

And with factory outputs critical to success, these construction projects are delivered to exacting timelines without impacting factory operations.

Thanks to cutting-edge facilities - for manufacturing and assembly - the site is now the UK’s largest car manufacturer, employing more than 6,500 workers from the region.

• Rapid delivery: Transforming the former airfield site into an 80,000m2 factory with 5km of roads took just 62 weeks.
  
  
• Electric avenue: We designed and built the highly technical and complex production plant for Nissan’s electric car batteries. 
  
  
• Manufacturing efficiency: Originally, the factory made 12½ cars an hour. Thirty years later, a vehicle rolls off the plant line every 62 seconds.
  
  
• Driving regeneration: As well as employing more than 6,500 staff, 21,000 more people work in local companies supplying the factory.
  
  
• Integrated manufacturing: We’ve supported Nissan’s strategic move from assembling cars, to include manufacturing car components and batteries.