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In the second of the three-part series, Place North West takes a look at what has been happening in and around central Liverpool during the past four months.
There are around 50 live projects in the centre of Liverpool, where work has continued on site during lockdown.
The tour starts in the south docks and takes in the Baltic Triangle, Kings Dock, the Strand, Princes Dock and Central Docks in Liverpool Waters, business district, Duke Street, Knowledge Quarter, London Road, New Islington and more.
There is a wide range of activity taking place creating spaces for hotels and district heat networks, a ferry terminal, multiple apartment blocks, offices and hospitals.
Following visits to central Manchester and Liverpool in the first two parts of the series, the Cracking On series will conclude next week with projects from around the rest of North West.
Thank you to everybody who contributed. To submit photos and updates for the series please follow these instructions. Sources: Place North West, SkyscraperCity
Herculaneum Quay, Riverside Drive
Developer: Herculaneum Quay Investors
Description: 119 apartments
Value: £20m
Team: Success Investment Group, Elavace Estates, Century 21 UK
Thirteen years after the first developer went into administration the site is weeks from completion, now being finished by the off-plan investors who clubbed together and arranged their own development finance to see it through, having passed through multiple developers’ hands over the years.
One Baltic Square, Grafton Street
Developer: YPG with RWinvest
Description: 296 buy-to-let apartments
Value: £46m
Team: architect YPG Projex, main contractor YPG Developments
Since mid-March the steel frame and superstructure has progressed, as well as installation of flooring and the steel lift. Completion expected Q3 2021.
Parliament Residence phase two, Parliament Street
Developer: Assetcorp
Description: 145 apartments, 11 and 8 storeys
Team: client’s agent Avison Young; main contractor Abodos; architect Falconer Chester Hall; M&E Abacus; rainscreen cladding BAK; curtain walling WDS; structural engineer Clancy; fire consultant OFR; approved inspector Quadrant
External cladding progressed and now 90% complete across the building, brick work to front elevation progressed to level four, curtain walling and glazing installation continuing with 90% installed, works progressing to enable sectional completion and handover of part of the building to residents in the coming months. Apartments beginning to be plastered with second fix plumbing and electrics, towers at the rear having curtain walling installed along with bronze cladding.
Parliament Square, Parliament Street and Great George Street
Developer: Legacie Developments with RWinvest
Description: 505 buy-to-let apartments, four blocks from eight to 18 storeys, commercial and leisure units
Value: £90m
Team: finance Maslow Capital; contractor Legacie Contracts; planning Zerum; architects Falconer Chester Hall
Steel frame going up, lift shaft and stairwells installed, floor slab construction, retaining walls and foundation works.
Baltic View, Norfolk Street and Brick Street
Developer: Crossfield Exclusive Developments, joint venture between Crossfield Group and Exclusive Investments
Description: 129 private rental apartments, 11 storeys
Team: contractor Crossfield Construction; architect Brock Carmichael; sales Marshall Property
Acquired from liquidators in late 2018, the former Pinnacle and North Point Global development was previously known as Baltic House.
St James Street
Developer: Torus Developments
Description: 56 apartments for sale and rent-to-buy
Value: £9.8m
Team: contractor Crossfield Construction; architect Brock Carmichael
The Baltic Hotel, Jamaica Street
Developer: Living Brick
Description: 36-room hotel
Team: architect Studio RBA; hotel operator Town by Living Brick; restaurant operator Wolf & Lamb
Cladding due to finish in next four weeks, to be be followed by scaffolding coming down.
Baltic Yard, Blundell Street
Developer: Brickland
Funder: Heitman
Description: 200 build-to-rent apartments, nine storeys
Cost: £24m
Team: contractor ISG; Tim Groom Architects
Brickland was established in 2017 by Sam Rowlands, ex of Elliot Group. Rowlands’ other businesses include developer Romal Capital. Rowlands’ senior team includes former Galliford Try director Darren Leary.
Kings Dock Car Park, Monarchs Quay
Developer: Liverpool City Council
Description: 1,434-space car park over nine levels serving waterfront arena and convention centre
Cost: £30m
Team: contractor Willmott Dixon; architect Leach Rhodes walker; planner Turley
Fire on New Year’s Eve in 2017 destroyed the multi-storey car park at Kings Dock. The car park was later demolished and a temporary 500-space facility erected while this one was constructed.
21 Strand Street
Developers: Panacea Property Development and Patten Properties
Funder: Invesco
Description: 382 build-to-rent apartments, 16 storeys
Value: £100m
Team: contractor Graham; architect Leach Rhodes Walker; planner Zerum; engineer Curtins; M&E, QS and project manager Capital; Design Fire Consultants; acoustics Redmore; landscape DEP
JCB heir Jo Bamford’s Panacea gained consent in late 2016 and the firm says the development will complete by the end of 2020.
The Lexington, Princes Dock, Liverpool Waters
Developer: Moda Living
Funders: Apache Capital
Description: 320 build-to-rent apartments, 34 storeys
Value: £80m
Team: contractor BCEGI Construction; architect Falconer Chester Hall; QS Arcadis; planning consultant Arup; structures Edge Consulting Engineers; MEP Briggs & Forrester; fire BB7; landscape Planit-IE; interior Naomi Cleaver
Since mid-March four floors of superstructure poured, close to topping out with only the roof to pour, five floors of unitised cladding installed, ground level curtain walling installed, progression of apartment fit-out level by level.
Plaza 1821, Princes Dock, Liverpool Waters
Developer: Peel L&P for Regenda Group
Description: 105-unit 15-storey PRS
Value: £21m
Team: contractor Vermont; architect Hodder & Partners; planner Zerum; Arup; landscape Planit-IE; engineer SGI, Turner & Townsend; Brabners; Hill Dickinson
Project completed in June and successfully handed over to Regenda.
Isle of Man Ferry Terminal, Central Docks, Liverpool Waters
Developer: Isle of Man Department of Infrastructure
Cost: £38m
Team: Manser Practice, John Sisk & Son, Aecom, Turner & Townsend
Site remediation works ongoing and civil preparation works progressed on the replacement ferry terminal, 800 metres downriver of the current facility. IoM government has a long leasehold on the land from Peel L&P.
District Heat Network, Liverpool Waters
Developer: Mersey Heat, part of Peel Energy
Description: District heat network to provide low carbon energy to 150-acre Liverpool Waters area
Team: Peel L&P, Vital Energi, Curtins
Installation of district heating pipework and the civils required to install and backfill across numerous areas within Liverpool Waters as well as a new pipe bridge.
Jesse Hartley Way, Northern Link Road, Liverpool Waters
Developer: Liverpool City Council
Description: A new 1km road through the Liverpool Waters development linking the IoM ferry terminal to the city’s road network. This also provides access for the new park and quay central buildings on Peel L&P’s central docks
Team: Grahams construction, Amey Consulting
Wearing course and pavement finishes being installed as well as formation of two new roundabouts and a foul pumping station.
Park Central, Liverpool Waters
Developer: Romal Capital
Description: 128 buy-to-let apartments over 14 storeys
Team: Newry Construction, Ollier Smurthwaite, WYG
First new-build development on Central Docks completed in April and will eventually sit opposite a 16-acre park, called Prospect Park, at the heart of Liverpool Waters.
The core strategic team supporting Peel L&P to deliver the £5bn Liverpool Waters development is Walker Sime, Curtins, Planit-IE, Hannan’s, Rob Burns, Arup, Winckworth Sherwood and Brabners.
Tobacco Warehouse, Stanley Dock
Developer: Crossharbour Property, a related company to Dublin-based Harcourt
Description: Conversion of Liverpool’s largest landmark into 550 apartments and 100,000 sqft commercial space
Value: £100m
Team: main contractor Abercorn Construction; architect Darmody Architecture; QS Sammon; planner Cunnane; conservation Hinchliffe Heritage; engineer Sutcliffe; commercial sales Matthews & Goodman; residential sales Logic Estates
Since mid-March, works have continued with the internal fit-out and completions to apartments on levels one to 12. Penthouse apartments on the 13th floor are nearing the watertight stage. Heritage repairs to the terracotta work and windows have also commenced. Externally, civil works to facilitate the building’s connection to the Mersey Heat District Heat Network are also progressing.
India Buildings, Water Street
Developer: Legal & General
Description: 350,000 sq ft office renovation, pre-let to HM Revenue & Customs
Contractor Overbury is the third in a year to attempt to complete the mammoth task of returning the much-loved Art Deco block to its former glory, following Styles & Wood and Caddick.
Echo Place, Old Hall Street
Developer: Select Group and Paradigm Asset Management
Description: 200-room Innside by Melia Hotel, 65,000 sq ft office prelet to Sony
Team: Projex Building Solutions, Worthington Owen
Liverpool Without Walls, Castle Street and Bold Street
Developer: Liverpool City Council, Liverpool BID Company, Liverpool Chamber of Commerce
Description: Install safety measures for restaurants and their customers as part of a pilot scheme to help restaurants reopen after lockdown
Team: infrastructure advice Aecom; framework Scape; main contractor Huyton Asphalt Civils; hostile vehicle measures supplier Townscape; L&R Roadlines; ATG telescopic bollard provider
Brunswick Street and Drury Lane
Image: Christian Cardiss
Developer: Topside City Developments
Funder: Together Money
Description: 125 aparthotel units
Value: £26m
Team: Fold Architecture; The Planning Studio
Victoria House, James Street
Developer: Oakstore
Description: 78 apartments
Team: NC Architecture, The Planning Studio
The Address, Wolstenholme Square
Developer: Elliot Group
Description: 200 apartments, 11 storeys
Value: £20m
Team: architect Falconer Chester Hall; planner Zerum; contractor Newry; QS/PM Savills; M&E PSD; structure ADS
Balconies installed, upper levels internal fit-out, cladding and windows installed to penthouse; ground floor glazing installation, ground floor external envelope.
The Eight, Grenville Street South
Developer: Iliad
Description: 120 apartments, up to seven storeys
Team: Legacie Contracts; Tim Groom Architects
Legacie stepped in after original contractor Forrest went into administration to finish Iliad’s latest in a long line of developments in the Ropewalks area.
Duke Street Boutique
Developer: Living Brick and Town Hotels
Description: 30-room hotel
Team: architect Studio RBA; sales Cityscape Investments
Renshaw Hall, Oldham Place
Developer: Niveda Realty Group
Description: 150-bed Moxy Hotel, 400 student apartments, 12 storeys
Value: £40m
Team: contractor Create; architect Falconer Chester Hall; engineer Clancy; M&E QED; planner Zerum
After a six-month pause Create have “remobilised” and work has resumed on site “in earnest”. Orders placed for windows, steel framing and masonry support.
Hardman House, Myrtle Parade
Developer: Alan Beer and Dave Brewitt
Description: 355 student flats
Team: agent Urban Sleep
The pair of developers have worked together on numerous projects in Liverpool including Hope Street Hotel. Beer’s Timber Yard in Baltic is also slated for redevelopment.
Paddington Village, Knowledge Quarter
Developer: Liverpool City Council
Description:
- The Spine, Paddington Village’s flagship scheme provides a new Northern headquarters for the Royal College of Physicians within Liverpool’s Knowledge Quarter
- Infrastructure and public realm works, Complex infrastructure works to remodel the brownfield site, forming serviceable building plots and creating a public realm to make Paddington Village a destination
- The Hotel, 13-storey, 221-bedroom Novotel hotel, franchised and operated by Legacy Hotels & Resorts
- Multi-Storey Car Park & Energy Centre, 12-storey car park with 1,245 spaces, including a combined heat and power energy centre on the ground floor
Value:
- The Spine, £35m
- Infrastructure and public realm works, £20m
- The Hotel, £41m
- Multi-Storey Car Park & Energy Centre, £12m
Team:
- All: Main contractor Morgan Sindall; client partner Knowledge Quarter, Liverpool
- The Spine: architect AHR; engineer Arup
- Infrastructure and Public Realm Works: architect – Ryder
- The Hotel: architect Ryder; structural engineer Curtins; M&E engineer Steven Hunt
- Multi-Storey Car Park & Energy Centre: architect KKK; M&E Dodds; structure Kier Property Services
The Spine saw glazing completed and tower crane and mastclimbers removed, internal works progressing, CAT A fit-out, and the building has been lit blue to celebrate the NHS. The hotel structure has risen out of the ground since March, stair core one cast to level seven, core two cast to level 16 and the floors cast to level two, a façade sample panel has been installed and approved by the client and planners, other samples have been prepared for the prefabricated bathrooms and the prototype bedroom. At the Multi-Storey Car Park & Energy Centre the steel frame for the energy centre commenced and completed, pre-cast core is completed to level 12, flue installed and ready to commence on the car park decks.
Student Life Building and Sports Building, Copperas Hill
Developer: Liverpool John Moores University
Description: 3.5 acre former Royal Mail Sorting Office site for careers and wellbeing services and eight-court sports hall among facilities
Value: £64m
Team: Main contractor Morgan Sindall Construction; architect Sheppard Robson; project manager Faithful & Gould; engineer Cundall; framework Pagabo
Student accommodation, Copperas Hill
Developer: Dave Brewitt and Alan Beer
Description: 294 beds in cluster flats
Team: architect L7 Architects; The Planning Studio
Merseyside Police HQ, St Anne’s Street
Developer: Merseyside Police
Description: 130,000 sq ft office
Cost: £48m
Team: contractor Willmott Dixon; Ryder Architects; QS Mace; structural engineer Curtins; landscape BDP
Steelwork reached topping out. Northern Steel Decking worked tirelessly in collaboration with Leach Steelwork during each phase, said main contractor Willmott Dixon.
Poets Place, Great Homer Street
Developer: Caro Developments
Funder: Together Money
Description: 127 apartments, only 15 units remain to be sold
Value: £14.5m
Team: architect Falconer Chester Hall; Simply CDM; emplyer’s agent and QS WYG Management Services; Newry Construction; M&E PSD; ADS Structural; fire WSP; acoustics Wardell Armstrong; structural warranties RoyleMac10; building control Assent Building Control; PB Sustainability.
Caro said: “The project only started in mid-March, so from a standing start, we have carried out all demolition, site clearance, piling, pile caps and ground beams, slab, lift pits, structural steel erection and metal decking, with the external façade cleating and brickwork now being progressed.”
Natex, Norton Street
Developer: Mount Property Group and Mount Construction
Description: Student accommodation of 574 units
Value: £43m
Team: Barton Construction; Falconer Chester Hall architects; QED; Evolve Project Consultancy; Broadgrove Planning & Development and CRM Students
Block A has seen the steel frame built up to the 12th floor and metal decking and concrete floors have started to be installed. The steel frame is currently being installed for Block B.
Innovo House, Devon Street
Developer: Mount Property Group and Mount Construction
Description: Student accommodation of 126 units
Value: £10m
Team: Falconer Chester Hall architects; Barton Construction; Evolve Project Consultancy; QED; CRM students; Broadgrove Planning & Development; Harwood Building Control and Clancy Consulting
Topped out with completion scheduled for 2021.
Salisbury Place, New Islington
Developer: Mount Property Group
Description: 70 apartments
Value: £8m
Team: Snow Architects; Shape Consulting Engineers; Ilex Project Management; Stephen A Hunt & Associates; Hunters and Broadgrove Planning & Development
Groundworks nearing completion, steel frame scheduled for August.
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Liverpool Women’s Hospital
Developer: Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust
Description: Intensive care unit, high dependency unit, parent accommodation
Value: £12.5m
Team: Interserve; Gilling Dod; Sutcliffe; Turner & Townsend
Completes this month.
Radisson Red, North Western Hall, Lime Street
Developer: Worthington Properties
Funders: Merseyside Pension Fund, Revcap
Description: 202-bed hotel
Value: £30m
The Exchange, London Road
Developer: Elliot Group
Description: 488 student rooms, 150 car parking spaces
Former Pinnacle Alliance scheme known as The Paramount acquired by Elliot Group out of administration. Elliot is spending £8m to complete the development. Elliot retained two principal sub-contractors, WDS Commercial and BAK-UK, managed by main contractor Exchange Construction, established by Elliot to finish the scheme. Bulk of the work relates to replacement of insulation and other materials behind the cladding. The cladding itself is already compliant, although different rivets will be used to fix it to the new railing system holding the insulation panels in place. Ten weeks from completion, Elliot said.
The Tung Auditorium, Grove Street and Oxford Street
Developer: University of Liverpool
Description: 400-seat performance hall for 70-piece orchestra, 600-seat lecture theatre
Value: £20m
Team: University of Liverpool Construction Company Special Projects; Ellis Williams Architects; landscape BCAL; acoustic engineer Arup; Booth King on structural design; Todd & Ledson as cost consultant; Omega as fire engineer; and Futureserv on M&E design
Digital Innovation Centre, Dover Street
Developer: University of Liverpool
Co-funder: Liverpool City Region Combined Authority
Description: 16,000 sq ft collaboration space bringing together research in computer science, robotics, and engineering
Value: £12.7m
Team: John Turner Construction Group; Construction Impact Framework
No1 Hatton Garden
Developer: Signature Living
Description: 119 buy-to-let serviced apartments
Value: £17.7m
Team: project management and cost consultancy Berrys; investment sales Meridian
The main works on site started in spring 2019, the project was launched for sale in November 2019 and has now almost entirely sold out. Upper floor steel frame installed with accompanying curtain wall package, internal works starting. Works are also nearing completion on Floor 1 and floors 2-3-4 are almost at the stage of practical completion. Floors one to four are set for completion in the next eight weeks with floors five to seven due to complete by the end of the year.
Royal Liverpool University Hospital, West Derby Street
Laing O’Rourke created a ‘step down’ unit for Covid-19 patients to recover at the Royal in May
Developer: Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust
Description: 646-bed replacement for the Royal, which opened in 1978
Cost: £700m – £1bn, according to National Audit Office estimates
Team: main contractor Laing O’Rourke; design by NBBJ and HKS
Problems continue at the project two years after initial contractor Carillion collapsed. Nearly £300m of remedial work came to light that needed to be done, triggering rows with sub-contractors and delays. Not expected to finish until 2022, which would be five years late.
Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, Pembroke Place
Developer: Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust
Description: 110-bedroom cancer treatment hospital
Cost: £118m
Team: architect BDP; main contractor Laing O’Rourke; design engineered by AECOM
Opened in June, part of £162m programme by the trust to bring improved cancer treatment to 2.4 million people in Merseyside and Cheshire.
Lodge Lane Container Park
Developer: CanCo
Investor: Midos Group
Description: 14 units for retail and leisure
Value: £2m
Team: contractor Larnook; architect Alan McBeth, QS, project; QS project manager Larnook; planner Alan McBeth; agents New Era Property Management
Concrete pours concluded to provide foundations for final container units, units installed, utility connections underway, lettings programme commenced. Completion date end of August.
