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You are looking at Littlewoods' new building in Liverpool-and at a bit of history!
This is the highest office block in Liverpool (320 feet above sea level.) It is also the first structure in Britain to be designed as a rigid all- welded steel frame using high yield stress steel Universal beams and columns (rolled at Dorman Long's Lackenby Mill.)
Why? Because on this contract, the consult- ing engineers found that for overall economy and speed of construction steel showed definite advantages over other forms of construction.
Using a steel framework had other advantages. Smaller columns gave more usable space. No haunches meant clear runs for services. Less deadweight allowed small foundations.
Fabrication and erection of all structural steel- work (about 2,200 tons in the first phase) was carried out by Redpath, Brown & Company Limited.
Architects, Quantity Surveyors
and Electrical Engineers
W. L. Stevenson, Esq., O.B.E., Manager,
Littlewoods Department of Architecture & Planning.
Consulting Structural Engineers
Bingham Blades & Partners, Liverpool.
General Contractors
Tysons (Contractors) Ltd., Liverpool.
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DORMAN LONG
STEEL
Far East Architect & Builder February, 1966
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