Key Facts
- Client: Grosvenor
- Balfour Beatty companies involved:
Balfour Beatty
Civil Engineering,
Balfour Beatty
Construction,
Balfour Beatty
Ground Engineering,
Balfour Kilpatrick
and Mansell
- The Paradise Project is an extensive £920m, 42-acre,
regeneration scheme, leading to a retail-led mixed-use development
comprising six separate districts
- Completion is due end of September 2008, in time for
Liverpool's role as the European Capital of Culture 2008
- The project has construction costs and fees of £500
million
- The entire scheme has created 3,300 construction jobs, plus
4,400 permanent jobs
- Balfour Beatty Construction is the lead contractor for the
eastern part of the project area, worth £111 million
- This part of the project consists of 15
buildings, comprising more than 50 new retail units,
160 apartments and three commercial buildings
- It also includes 550 car parking spaces and the comprehensive
refurbishment of other buildings, including Liverpool's oldest
Grade 2 listed warehouse, for retail use
- Balfour Kilpatrick is installing M&E systems and Mansell is
providing structural and renovation services
- For further details, visit the dedicated
Paradise
Project website
