Steelwork creating latest high-profile residential scheme in Liverpool

Structural steelwork is nearing completion on the fourth of five residential blocks at One Baltic Square in Liverpool.

Working on behalf of main contractor Legacie Contracts, EvadX is fabricating, suppling and erecting the steelwork for the scheme’s first four buildings (approximately 900t), with the fifth (270t) due to start on site during February.

Steelwork also forms a podium that covers the entire site’s footprint measuring 80m x 70m. It forms the project’s lower ground floor and accommodates a car park, while also supporting each individual block and a landscaped public realm at upper ground level.

Set in the middle of the Baltic Triangle area of Liverpool, the scheme will on completion provide 296 one and two-bedroom apartments.

Clancy Consulting Structural Engineer Anthony McManus said: “Steel was chosen as the preferential structural framing solution for this project due to its flexibility, lower overall weight and its ability to accommodate complex transfer arrangements at ground level where the residential building column grid sits over the basement car park.

Building A is six-storey building with a resident’s roof terrace positioned at first floor level. Buildings B, C and D are similar buildings with the first two rising to seven-storeys and the latter topping out at five-storeys.

The yet to be erected Building E will be a five-storey structure.