Phase 1 of a much larger development within a World Heritage Site at Castlefield and consists of 8-storeys with car parking in the basements and below a linking podium. The site is bounded by canal on 3 sides, with an associated high water table and there are major pollution and ground gas issues.

The project required a complex basement solution in view of the high water table and pollution issues. Consequently, a secant piled wall was used and taken into the rockhead, along with a dewatering system to control water ingress during construction and a specialist tanking system to ensure watertightness after construction. The foundations are concrete piles also taken into the rockhead.

The superstructure is a reinforced concrete frame with large heavily reinforced transfer beams over the basement area and arranged in an irregular grid pattern. The floor construction was generally flat slab with no downstands and incorporating shallow cantilever areas at the ends of the floor plates. This solution allowed for a smaller ceiling services zone and hence a lower build cost