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Dakota Hotel Group has announced the appointment of JPG Group to deliver all civil and structural engineering services for the development of its latest hotel near Manchester Airport.
This is the fourth Dakota Hotels contract for JPG which has already provided services for Leeds city centre and Manchester city centre and is currently delivering the new hotel in Newcastle.
Last month Dakota Hotels announced that it had submitted a planning application for the delivery of a 154-bedroom hotel off Bailey Lane within the 60-acre MIX Manchester development. The £60m scheme is expected to generate around £12m a year to the local economy.
Designed by KPP Architects, the seven-storey new building will be a reinforced concrete frame structure supported on piled foundations socketed into Mercia Mudstone.
The structure also contains reinforced concrete transfer beams at first floor level to ensure column positions do not adversely affect the proposed room layout. Construction will start on site later this year with completion expected in later summer 2026.
JPG is the retained strategic partner for the ongoing Dakota portfolio providing full civil, structural, geo-environmental and highway engineering consultancy across the projects.
Construction is progressing on the Newcastle site where JPG is providing civil and structural services. Works include the transformation of a vacant five-storey office building at St Ann’s Wharf into a luxury waterfront hotel ready for its opening in the spring of next year.
The structural works include a first-floor steel extension deck supported off a reinforced concrete raft foundation to provide additional floor space for the 115 bedroomed hotel.
Liam Bower, director at JPG, said: “We are delighted to secure a further brief from Dakota Hotels, cementing our relationship moving forward as a trusted and valued expert advisor. The brand is synonymous with style and impeccable service, and it is great to be able to demonstrate our expertise on delivering luxury lifestyle projects as well as industrial for which we are well known for.”
