Repurpose, revitalise, regenerate
An Intelligent Solutions Roundtable: How the industry is working together to give old buildings a new lease of life.
The discussion at our recent repurposing buildings, saw the team in the North West, alongside industry experts, discussing the opportunities and challenges to repurposing buildings across the UK.
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Click to readHigh-profile landmarks are finding a new purpose and have become a valuable part of the offering that gives our capital its unique character and sense of place. They are part of the story of post-industrial age Britain gradually transforming itself, moving away from heavy industry and manufacturing and towards a knowledge and service-based economy. The question of what to do with the buildings bequeathed to us by previous generations is a widespread and on-going challenge. Dereliction is always a problem, negatively impacting the look and feel of any area, but an existing building can also be an opportunity to rethink and revitalise.
High-profile landmarks are finding a new purpose and have become a valuable part of the offering that gives our capital its unique character and sense of place. They are part of the story of post-industrial age Britain gradually transforming itself, moving away from heavy industry and manufacturing and towards a knowledge and service-based economy. The question of what to do with the buildings bequeathed to us by previous generations is a widespread and on-going challenge. Dereliction is always a problem, negatively impacting the look and feel of any area, but an existing building can also be an opportunity to rethink and revitalise.
These issues play out around the country, with developers, planners, local authority regeneration teams and many others pondering the future of redundant mills, warehouses, offices and department stores of the near and far past.
The once glacial pace of change has been accelerated by the advance of digital into all aspects of our lives, not least in the way online shopping has hastened the decline of the High Street. The imperative to find lower carbon ways of living and working is also reshaping the dynamic. Somewhere in the Around the table - Thank you to our guests and collaborators
The once glacial pace of change has been accelerated by the advance of digital into all aspects of our lives, not least in the way online shopping has hastened the decline of the High Street. The imperative to find lower carbon ways of living and working is also reshaping the dynamic. Somewhere in the mix, we also have the overnight, revolutionary changes to working practices brought about by the Covid pandemic. These factors have helped serve up a new era where the changing expectations for spaces to work, learn, and play are constantly debated.
To this end, Morgan Sindall Construction gathered a group of industry leaders in Manchester, a city with a significant industrial history and architecture, to explore the agenda and the Intelligent Solutions around repurposing older buildings.
Thank you to our collaborators
Dan Hyde I Development Director, NOMA/MEPC (co-host), Richard Spackman I Development Director, Capital & Centric, Nicholas Birchall I Architect, Hawkins Brown, Helen Cutts I Head of Sustainability, University of Central Lancashire, Alistair Lambert I Principal Mechanical Engineer, WSP, Richard Dowdall I Associate Director, Civic Engineers, Maja Nesdale I Partner, Arcadis IBI, Abbie Romano I Manufacturing Technology Centre, Liverpool, Simon Arnott I Managing Director (North West), Morgan Sindall Construction, Richard Potts I Area Director, Morgan Sindall Construction, Jason Ward I Framework Manager, Morgan Sindall Construction, Discussion chaired by Chris Hulme, Director, Influential.