Walker / Harrison Hughes Strip Out,
University of Liverpool

As part of the Engineering Restructuring Project at Liverpool University, two major victorian buildings (the Walker and Harrison Hughes buildings), together with 1960s buildings grouped around a central plaza were to be stripped back to their main structure. This entailed removal of all asbestos, furniture, equipment, ceilings, floor finishes, services, and partitions.

The works were complicated by severe restrictions on debris removal: the central plaza area around which the buildings were grouped covered the main railway line into Liverpool Lime Street Station and we were not allowed to place any loads on it. This meant that all debris had to be removed via a single 3m wide service road which was shared with the new build contractors.

The works were undertaken using hand methods, with debris moved to a single loading point, where it was passed through small mullioned sandstone windows (retained intact) to a scaffold platform then transferred to ground via a debris chute.

 

This project was undertaken as part of the University of Liverpool Engineering Restructuring Project, a major redevelopment of the existing university facilities.

The overall project was undertaken by Messrs BAM Construction, for whom we were the the strip out, temporary works/structural alteration and demolition partner. Our works included:

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