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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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