West Midlands Interchange (WMI), the 734-acre Strategic Rail Freight Interchange (SRFI) at M6 Junction 12, has appointed Winvic Construction Ltd as its design-stage delivery partner.
The £1 billion (€1.2 billion/$1.2 billion) project will offer more than 8 million square feet of commercial space, with state-of-the-art units ranging from 200,000 square feet to 1.2 million square feet, all supported by its own dedicated rail hub enabling multi-modal movement of goods around the United Kingdom.
The Pre-Construction Services Agreement (PCSA) role is the first of four phases of the development program, followed by early enabling works, infrastructure works and vertical unit delivery.
The site is one of several new SRFIs around the United Kingdom designed to enable occupiers to move increasing volumes of freight off roads onto the rail network, with one rail-freight carriage capable of replacing 44 to 72 heavy-goods vehicles and generating as much as 70 percent les
