Burnley LIFT

Date: 01/07/2005

Location: North West

Project value: £2,290,000.00

Another Billington success story is the health & leisure facility in Burnley, congratulated by our client for a first-class job.

The development is an 11-storey beam & column tower block housing medical offices and a four-storey leisure area with swimming pool, sports hall, atrium, changing rooms, gym, dance studio and squash courts. The scope included the structural steel design of connections, metal decking and fixing of precast concrete stairs. During construction, easi-edge edge protection was fixed to the structure using a large man-riding basket, suspended from a tower crane.

We commenced work on the 1250 tonne contract in April 2005 and since then the project ran smoothly. The team on the job (DK Steel Erectors, Richard Lees Metal Decking and our Site Manager, Dean Chatterton) worked tremendously well together, with metal decking carefully programmed into erection periods on each area and the co-ordination of deliveries to achieve the quickest phased handover possible. Combined with assistance from the main contractor Eric Wright in strengthening concrete and reducing concrete curing periods to achieve a quicker overall erection period the project was completed well within budget and approximately 6-8 weeks ahead of programme.

Project Scope

Beam & column steel frame, metal decking, edge protection.

Main contractor: Eric Wright Construction
Engineer: Booth King Partnership
Architect: The Derek Hicks and Threw Partnership
Weight of steel: 1,480 tonnes
Market sector: Health
Design type: Traditional
Frame type: Medium / high rise