• McLaren has purchased the Heather Farm facility of industrial buildings and concrete hard-standing, adjacent to the Horsell Common Special Protection Area, and has bequeathed ownership of the site to the Horsell Common Preservation Society
• All local public footpaths have been either retained or will be enhanced for future access, with project updates posted on the Horsell Common footpaths to keep the local community aware of progress
The MPC build programme is a technical and engineering challenge in itself. Set a rapid timescale of approximately one year from the start of construction to the production of the first 12C high-performance sports car, McLaren and its partners in the programme, Fosters & Partners and Terence O’Rourke, are well on course to open the doors to the 33,000m2 innovative new car production centre in the first half of 2011.
Highlights of the build programme include:
• At its peak, the construction programme will support 450 jobs
• 300 jobs (many highly skilled) will be added to the existing 500 at McLaren Automotive
• 180,000m3 of soil will be excavated. Typically on a major construction programme, much of the excavated soil would be removed from site. Unusually, but in keeping with McLaren’s consideration of its Woking home, all soil is being retained on site, saving the associated transport disruption of moving such large amounts of soil onto local Woking roads
• To date, almost 25,000 off-site lorry movements (3,000 per week) have been prevented through the project’s sensitive re-contouring plan that retains all soil on-site.
Ron Dennis added: “I’m pleased to be able to say that 2010 has been a fantastically exciting year so far at McLaren. The successful start to the MPC build programme follows our global launch of the new sports car company in March and a winning start to this season’s Formula 1 world championship for our Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Formula 1 team.
“We already have nearly 2,000 car enthusiasts expressing an interest in our first car, the 12C; we’ve already won two of the first four Grands Prix so far this season, including a one-two in China, and we’re currently leading both the Constructors’ World Championship and the Drivers’ World Championship.
“Moreover, we’re already almost two weeks ahead of schedule on the MPC. The construction programme is yet another reflection of the passion of everyone at McLaren for the company to be the most innovative, most successful, and most respected sports car and motorsport business in the world, both now and in the future.”
• All local public footpaths have been either retained or will be enhanced for future access, with project updates posted on the Horsell Common footpaths to keep the local community aware of progress
The MPC build programme is a technical and engineering challenge in itself. Set a rapid timescale of approximately one year from the start of construction to the production of the first 12C high-performance sports car, McLaren and its partners in the programme, Fosters & Partners and Terence O’Rourke, are well on course to open the doors to the 33,000m2 innovative new car production centre in the first half of 2011.
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Highlights of the build programme include:
• At its peak, the construction programme will support 450 jobs
• 300 jobs (many highly skilled) will be added to the existing 500 at McLaren Automotive
• 180,000m3 of soil will be excavated. Typically on a major construction programme, much of the excavated soil would be removed from site. Unusually, but in keeping with McLaren’s consideration of its Woking home, all soil is being retained on site, saving the associated transport disruption of moving such large amounts of soil onto local Woking roads
• To date, almost 25,000 off-site lorry movements (3,000 per week) have been prevented through the project’s sensitive re-contouring plan that retains all soil on-site.
Ron Dennis added: “I’m pleased to be able to say that 2010 has been a fantastically exciting year so far at McLaren. The successful start to the MPC build programme follows our global launch of the new sports car company in March and a winning start to this season’s Formula 1 world championship for our Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Formula 1 team.
“We already have nearly 2,000 car enthusiasts expressing an interest in our first car, the 12C; we’ve already won two of the first four Grands Prix so far this season, including a one-two in China, and we’re currently leading both the Constructors’ World Championship and the Drivers’ World Championship.
“Moreover, we’re already almost two weeks ahead of schedule on the MPC. The construction programme is yet another reflection of the passion of everyone at McLaren for the company to be the most innovative, most successful, and most respected sports car and motorsport business in the world, both now and in the future.”