WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff’s Leeds branch join £80m Tower Works scheme

Property developer Carillion has appointed the Leeds office of WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff, a professional services consultancy, to provide engineering consultancy for the Tower Works site in Holbeck Urban Village, Leeds city centre.

WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff will be delivering multi-disciplinary services including civil and structural engineering, building services, geotech, acoustics, fire and air quality for the planned mixed-use site.

Work on the site, which features 147 residential units; 92,000 sq ft of commercial office space and 20,000 sq ft of retail, restaurant and bar spaces, is expected to start in January 2016.

As well as being a major part in the regeneration of Leeds South Bank, the 1.04 hectare site, which is situated between Globe Road and the Leeds Liverpool Canal, close to Granary Wharf, will benefit from increased connectivity to the city centre when the southern entrance to Leeds railway station opens later this year.

Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) , the site owner, announced in March 2015 that Carillion is its development partner and Jestico + Whiles as architects for this phase of the development.

The first phase of the ambitious build will reach completion in December 2017 and includes 85,000 sq ft of residential accommodation with ground floor restaurant and bar spaces.

The planned development will sympathetically combine contemporary canal-side apartments with historic architecture on site, including three Grade II listed towers modelled on the Renaissance towers in Italy which give the site its name.

David Hill, technical director at WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff, said: “This is a fantastic project for the company and we’re looking forward to helping realise the HCA and Carillion’s plans for this prestigious mixed-use scheme. This development phase, which includes canalside residential elements as well as office and retail space, will further cement this corner of Leeds as a very special place for people to live, as well as work and play.”

Adds Gareth Jackson, development director at Carillion Developments, added: “It’s great to have WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff on board. It’s unusual to have an engineering consultancy that offers so many different services in-house and we were impressed with the quality and proven track record across their specialisms. We have a really great team of partners committed to take this scheme forward, and it will be great to see this site, which once played such a key role in the Industrial Revolution here in Leeds, redeveloped for a new generation.”

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