Northumberland construction company Merit has sealed one of its biggest ever contracts after being enlisted to build part of a new £150m facility for Covid jab manufacturer Moderna.
Following a string of significant healthcare projects around the UK, Cramlington-based Merit is set to build one of the two buildings that will make up the new Moderna Innovation and Technology Centre (MITC) at Harwell Campus in Oxfordshire, after the US business confirmed plans moves into the UK.
The project leaders say the project will create hundreds of jobs, through its construction and operation. The MITC will include a clinical biomarker laboratory that will be constructed by offsite construction and engineering specialist Merit - and the firm's innovative process means it will be operational in just two years' time. The Drug Substance and Manufacturing facility will be fitted out by Birmingham based engineering firm IPS.
