Lampwick forms part of Manchester Life's regeneration and development across Ancoats and New Islington close to Manchester city centre, achieved practical completion in September 2021. Manchester Life development company is a joint venture between Manchester City Council and the Abu Dhabi United Group. Throughout the project the team had numerous challenges that they helped with due to their connections within the city, from helping to achieve planning condition discharge throughout the UK Covid-19 lockdown. Planning, people and positive relationships were the ingredients for success at Lampwick.
Planning
The programme success came down to the early planning. We used 4D software to develop the construction programme to identify issues well before they would become a problem on site. The site was very tight, with a canal to the south and west elevations, a main road to the north elevation and the only access to the east also had a listed, dangerous building on it. As such we were locked into a very tight entrance to build the project. 4D planning helped immensely with these logistical constraints by using software to virtually build the project and identify issues so that we could ensure construction wouldn’t stop.