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News Release from: Hulse (Electrical Contractors) | Subject: Beacon Park Retirement Village development
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial Team on 13 April 2005

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Hulse (Electrical Contractors), has been awarded a GBP 2.6 million contract to design, supply and install the complete building services for the innovative Beacon Park Retirement Village development

Building services engineers, Hulse (Electrical Contractors) Limited, has been awarded a GBP 2.6 million contract to design, supply and install the complete building services for the innovative GBP 18 million Beacon Park Retirement Village development in Lichfield, Staffordshire Galliford Try are the main contractors for clients ExtraCare Charitable Trust

Beacon Park Village - reputed to be the largest building project in Lichfield since the city's famous cathedral was completed in the 1330s - is one of the first retirement developments in the UK to provide its residents with a full range of on-site facilities.

These include bars, restaurants, gymnasium, craft and woodwork centres, and even a television studio.

Hulse's installation incorporates the latest Ethernet technology, with a network of Category 5e cabling covering all major locations on the site.

The same network also provides telephone facilities, based on VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), and serves Internet-enabled computer workstations that will be used by the village's residents.

Beacon Park Village in Lichfield is a GBP 18 million development for the Homezone Housing Association, in association with the ExtraCare Charitable Trust.

Additional funding is being provided by Lichfield District Council and Staffordshire County Council.

Main contractors, Galliford Try Construction Central, commenced work on the project in March 2004, and it is scheduled for completion in August 2005.

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