TClarke selected for South West gigafactory mega-project

TClarke has been selected as one of two MEP partners by Sir Robert McAlpine for the delivery of thje £4bn Agratas gigafactory near Bridgewater Somerset,which will make car batteries for Jaguar Land Rover, starting in 2026. Preconstruction is already underway and we will be onsite from Q1 2025 as Group Chief Executive Mark Lawrence explains :

“This is an exceptional project both in scale and national importance, with a strong engineering services focus. Being involved at the heart of the design and construction for the UK’s first gigafactory is a significant success for TClarke in a number of ways.

“Our partnership with Sir Robert McAlpine goes back for almost 100 years already – and so it is great to be collaborating once more as a major partner they trust to deliver landmark complex engineering projects. We are also delighted to be collaborating with Agragras who are part of the wider Tata family that includes Jaguar Land Rover, in a project which will by the early 2030s be providing up to 40% of the batteries for UK-manufactured electric vehicles.

“To win a major infrastructure project like this you must have deep in-house resources – that is what we have built over the years across the UK. Our directly-employed engineering teams across the South West can point to a substantial record of major complex projects across sectors, involving new and advanced technologies, won and delivered successfully by local TClarke teams, with the support of our national resources. TClarke employs local people, trains local people and builds engineering skills locally – right across our national operation – that fact matters to us, our clients and to our local communities.

“As the UK goes forward, major projects across all sectors will need our skills to create the necessary infrastructure assets to fulfil national ambitions for growth and decarbonisation. These are exciting times for our business and congratulations must go to the whole South West team, led by UK South Director Rob Faro, which has achieved a project win which is certainly the largest regional project we have ever won and ranks up there – as one of the most significant projects in our order books and our history.