Auto123.com’s René Fagnan is currently in Great Britain for an exclusive visit of the stunning McLaren Technology Centre, the facility of the British Formula 1 team and production plant of the new McLaren MP4-12C super road car.
The visit has been organised by Canadian company Processia Solutions, a new technical partner of the McLaren Formula 1 team. I arrived in the town of Woking, Surrey from the Heathrow airport on Sunday night after much delays. My hotel is located some 400 metres from the McLaren Technology Centre on road A320 that connects M25 highway to the town of Woking. First good news: it was not raining! I walked up to the MTC on Monday morning. Although the three security officers were extremely helpful, I was not allowed to take anymore photos of the building. The entrance is well secured with TV closed circuit cameras everywhere. The McLaren Technology Centre is the corporate and production headquarters for the McLaren Group, not just the F1 team. It was designed by renowned architect Lord Foster, has brought together all of the Group's activities under one roof. Work on the project, originally known as the Paragon Technology Centre, started in 1999 and the MTC was inaugurated May 2004. It is located on a 50-hectare site located approximately three kilometres north of Woking. The building's 57,000 square metres of office space is home to the majority of the McLaren group's 900 employees, in an area large enough to hold nine Boeing 747 jumbo jets. The building is environmentally friendly the team says, with natural light used wherever possible and energy recycled throughout the site.
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