Police HQ finalist for Building of the Year

Posted: October 2011

Shepherd Gilmour were present at the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce for the prestigious, "Greater Manchester Building of the Year 2011" awards. One of Shepherd Gilmour's projects was amongst the 4 finalists; Greater Manchester Police's new North Manchester Divisional Headquarters at Central Park in Newton Heath, Manchester.

We provided civil & strucutral engineering services on the project. The building which aims for a BREEAM 'Excellent' rating, was built by Carillion with the design team including architect's Aedas, M&E engineers Norman Disney Young and project managers, Cre8. The project provides 240,000 sq.ft of office space for the police over 6 storeys.

The HQ building is situated on Central Park, part of New East Manchester which is being developed by Ask:Goodman as part of the wider regeneration of the area.

Shepherd Gilmour are also working on Greater Manchester Police' new Force headquarters building which is being built by the same team on a site directly adjacent to the Divisional HQ building.

Malcolm Hollings, our project director on the project , comments, "Being shortlisted for GM Chamber Building of the Year Award is fine reward for this interesting and important project. The police's rigorous brief for the project means that the engineering solutions have created a very robust building which will serve the police well and whcih we are very proud to be have been involved with."