Residential Projects

When it comes to residential structures

Billington has supplied just about every
type imaginable - student accommodation,
hotels, housing, low cost housing for
key worker accommodation, high rise
apartments and penthouses for the elite.
Echo Building, Sunderland
This 15-storey building contains three storeys of car parking, retail at ground floor level and 11 storeys of residential
accommodation, made up of 179 apartments.
It was designed as a braced steel frame with multi-deck composite floors, a curved roof bolted together from
fabricated steel sheets, a 5m wide galvanised steel balcony around the retail level to provide a promenade, and 2m
wide balconies around all river facing apartments. Billington included all steelwork and metaldecking for the project
in their build programme.
Client: Echo Building Ltd
Main Contractor: Tolent Construction Ltd
Architect: Mario Minchella
Structural Engineer: Brian Clancy Partnership
Project Value: 2.6m

West Central, Leeds

Bourbon Lane Housing, London

Built on the site of the old

Post Office headquarters,
the West Central
development consists of
a number of buildings
providing residential, retail
and leisure space to the
west of Leeds City Centre.
Billington supplied over
2000 tonnes of complex
beam and column structural steelwork, and were also
responsible for the metal decking, precast concrete
and stairs.

Bourbon Lane provides 78

affordable homes in the
White City area of London.

Client: Sterling Teesland Ltd

Main Contractor: Shepherd Construction
Architect: Carey Jones
Structural Engineer: WSP Leeds
Quantity Surveyor: Burnley Wilson Fish
Project Value: 4.3m

Steel frames were

selected ahead of timber
and concrete, enabling
the design to include
6m cantilevers. The
structure also included
storey height Vierendeel girders with the rest of the
frame comprising a beam and column structure. The
Bourbon Lane project won a Commendation at the
Structural Steel Design Awards 2008.
Client: Octavia Housing and Care
Main Contractor: Como Group
Architects: Cartwright Pickard Architects and B+C
Architects
Structural Engineer: CampbellReith
Project Value: 0.9m

Jackson Square, Bishops Stortford

Woodlands, Milton Keynes

This two-phase residential

and retail development
at the centre of Bishops
Stortford lies adjacent to
the shopping and leisure
centre of the same name.
Billington manufactured,
supplied and erected
steelwork for both
phases of the building
programme, which provides over 300 apartments.
In addition, Billington was responsible for the metal
decking and precast concrete packages.

Four rectangular fourstorey residential blocks

with cellular beams
provide the framework
for this high specification
residential development
located on a business park
north of central Milton
Keynes.

Client: Wilson Bowden Developments Ltd

Main Contractor: Wilson Bowden Developments Ltd
Architect: Broadway Malyan
Structural Engineer: Jubb & Partners
Project Value: 5.9m

Billington designed, manufactured, supplied and

erected all steelwork; the metal decking and precast
concrete were also included in Billingtons build
package.
Client: Mainland Construction
Main Contractor: Mainland Construction
Architect: PRC Fewster Engineering
Structural Engineer: Manhire Associates
Project Value: 0.5m

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