I’m project manager on the £21m residential Manor Mills scheme in Leeds, a nine-storey apartment building. It forms a key piece in the regeneration jigsaw of the city’s Holbeck Urban Village.

After two months on the site and following stringent inspections by engineering contractors, we began the enabling works, which includes installing movement test devices onto the neighbouring buildings. During the underpinning works we realised an adjacent building to our site required extra attention. Standing no more than six metres away from our site, the building, around 100 years old and used by a metal engineering firm, showed signs of movement. Our challenge was to stabilise the building next to our site, while ensuring minimum disruption was caused to the business which occupied it.

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Construction Manager

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Spencer King is project manager at Ocon Construction. Read the full story on the Manor Mills development at www.construction-manager.co.uk

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