Overview
HICL Infrastructure is paying €3.4m for an 85% stake in the Ecole Centrale Supelec PPP Project (“Project”). The Project reached Financial Close on 16 February 2015 and consists of the design, construction, finance and maintenance of a new facility for the Ecole Centrale Supelec on plateau de Saclay, near Paris, as well as a shared teaching and research facility, an underground carpark and a hotel facility (the revenue from which does not form part of the Project).
The Project will be built by Bouygues Batiment Ile de France and will take approximately 2 years to complete, with an operational period of 26 years from construction completion. The FM contract will be with Bouygues Energy & Services, which will also assume the lifecycle management risk.
HICL’s investment will take the form of a loan stock subscription obligation payable upon construction completion.
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