Commercial
Bespoke design
for city gateway
22 NSC
Nov/Dec 19
Creating a gateway between Salford
and Manchester, New Bailey, is
part of the wider £650m, 50-acre
Salford Central masterplan
delivered by The English Cities Fund – a
joint venture between Muse Developments,
Legal & General and Homes England, in
partnership with Salford City Council – that
contains an array of commercial, retail and
residential buildings.
Located along the Salford side of the
River Irwell, New Bailey, gets its name from
the prison that stood on the site until being
demolished in 1872.
Because of the plot’s historic significance,
an extensive archaeological investigation
was undertaken prior to the main
construction works getting underway in
2014.
Phil Marsden, Project Manager at The
English Cities Fund, said: “New Bailey
and the wider Salford Central masterplan
was brought forward to change what was
being used as a surface car park, into a new,
vibrant destination where people would
want to live, work and relax. High-quality
individuality in design, along with right mix
of partners and a strong, progressive client
in Salford City Council has enabled us to
achieve just that.”
Bowmer + Kirkland is one of the main
contractors for the scheme. Its work has so
far included three steel-framed commercial
blocks and a Premier Inn hotel. The latter
structure was completed before the dig got
underway as it sits slightly outside of the
footprint of the former prison walls.
Of the office buildings, One New Bailey
was completed in 2017 with Billington
Structures as steelwork contractor and
currently the firm is building units Two and
Three see box. A fourth office building is
also on the drawing board, as part of the
masterplan.
Meanwhile, a further part of the overall
New Bailey scheme, currently consisting of
three residential towers and another multistorey
car park is simultaneously being built
by Morgan Sindall Construction.
“Every office block has a different design
team, which gives the estate a unique selling
point as the buildings have an individual
look,” explains Bowmer + Kirkland
Contracts Manager, Shaun Thomas.
Two New Bailey is an 11-storey office
block, offering 17,300m2 of floor space, a
basement car park and is aiming to achieve
a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating.
Contributing to the development’s
individualistic feel, this building is a standout
structure that boasts an external steel
exo-skeleton, while internally, the majority
of the steel frame will also be left exposed.
Explaining the exposed steelwork design
Steel-framed commercial buildings, each with their own
individual design, are taking centre stage on a multi-millionpound
development in Salford. Martin Cooper reports.
FACT FILE
Two New Bailey, Salford
Main client:
The English Cities Fund
Architect: Allford Hall
Monaghan Morris
AHMM
Main contractor:
Bowmer + Kirkland
Structural engineer:
Integra Consulting
Engineers
Steelwork contractor:
Severfield
Steel tonnage: 2,500t
“Every office block has a
different design team which
gives the estate a unique selling
point as the buildings have an
individual look.”
Two New Bailey
takes shape with
One New Bailey in
the foreground
/Residential_and_mixed-use_buildings
/Construction
/Residential_and_mixed-use_buildings#Hotels
/Multi-storey_office_buildings
/Car_parks
/BREEAM
/Visually_expressed_structural_forms