Cara Brickwork are proud to be awarded the masonry contract for The University of Liverpool’s £90m student accommodation scheme at its Greenbank halls.

The job, which will be run by the University of Liverpool Construction Company Special Projects team (ULCCO), involves building new halls of residence, demolishing old ones and refurbishing Derby Hall.

The latest student village scheme will deliver 1,370 new or refurbished rooms in total and include a two-storey sports hall.

It forms part of a £250m masterplan by the university to build and upgrade accommodation at its city and Mossley Hill base.
New housing blocks are to be set around three landscaped courtyards and will rise to 5-8 storeys.

The Masonry is due to start late March and last for 38 weeks and worth around £1.3m, which will mainly be a brickwork skin to a concrete/SFS frame.

Neil Allen – Contracts Director quoted:-

“Winning this contract is great news for our ‘local brickies’ who have recently completed two Beautiful Schools at Bellerive and St Hildas which are both located on Sefton Park”.

“The team in the office have put a lot of hard work into the winning of this contract and worked closely to ensure that we have picked everything up, we have had some great meetings with the ULCCO site team and I am really looking forward to forging a new relationship with this exciting ever growing company”