More than 220 new residential apartments are to be built in Birmingham city centre.

Torsion Group has secured a £28 million deal, its largest ever contract award, to deliver the Arden Gate residential scheme in partnership with Court Collaboration and Top Capital Group.

Architects Corstorphine and Wright, and Structural Engineer CWA are part of Torsion's design team on the project, which comprises 225 luxury apartments with communal areas and parking. Completion is scheduled for November 2019.


Pre-construction Director, Andrew Wilson, said: "The successful contract award follows 5 months of detailed negotiations. To ensure that we met our clients exacting standards of cost, quality and programme we undertook a significant value engineering review and challenged the concept design in terms of frame type, façade materials and engineering services. By adopting our design to budget ethos we reduced the anticipated contract sum by £2.5m.

"Utilising the principles of BIM we were able to provide a fully co-ordinated solution which; via the use of 3D modelling and printing, gave our client the assurance to know that the design was robust, affordable and most importantly ready to construct.

"Securing Arden Gate marks a new chapter in our growth and is the first of a number of higher value projects that we are taking through the pre-construction stage to be started on site later this year."

Completion is scheduled for November 2019.

Image: Arden Gate, Birmingham City Centre.

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