Site visit: Inside Media City UK

Place was part of a guided tour of the rapidly emerging first phase of Media City UK, around 12 acres of commercial, academic, residential and public space in The Quays, Salford.

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Here are some of the highlights and development updates from last week's tour:

  • The studio blocks – shown in red green and blue in the images below – will be ready for testing at the end of September. The margin for error in the flatness of the floor, even before a liquid resin finish is put down, is 1.5mm over three straight metres. Three months of testing the studios will include running ball bearings across the floor to see if their paths deviate, a straight line means a level floor.

The new bridge can be seen lying to the west side of the Imperial War Museum North. It will be pulled into place by crawler cranes not yet on site and positioned on the permanent circular base on which it will turn to allow ships through. The bridge will touch down between the two waterside BBC buildings facing the war museum.

  • Media City's own gas-powered trigeneration energy plant producing cooling, heating and electricity has been officially commissioned and is working fine. The plant uses canal water from the Manchester Ship Canal for cooling and heat dispersal. Facilities manager Cofely, a long-standing supplier to Peel, will man the site 24 hours a day. The plant is more than twice as efficient as conventional grid electricity and helped Media City gain BREEAM sustainable community status along with transport, ecology and other factors.

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