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Spire Manchester Nominated for Building of the Year

Halliday Meecham Architects are delighted to announce that the recently completed Spire Manchester Hospital has been nominated in the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce Building of the Year. The aim of the award is to recognise a building’s contribution to Greater Manchester in terms of construction and development and will be presented on 19th October…

Great Manchester Run

Last Sunday an eight strong team from Halliday Meecham Architects limbered up to run the 10k around Manchester. The team braved all the weather Manchester could throw at them in aid of Doctor Kershaw’s Hospice in Oldham. Despite the sore legs a great day was had by all. Tim Farnworth finished the race in an…

Spire Manchester Hospital Featured in Architects Datafile

Halliday Meecham Architects’ new flagship hospital for Spire Healthcare in Manchester was featured in the April issue of Architects Datafile. Director Phil Hewer was interviewed for the healthcare supplement of the magazine which takes an in-depth look at the project and its design. The hospital is currently on site and is due for completion in…

Manchester School of Architecture visit Spire Manchester Hospital

Last week Halliday Meecham Architects’ Phil Hewer and James Wilford gave third year students from Manchester School of Architecture a tour of the new Spire Manchester Hospital. For many of the students this was their first experience of a live construction site, and after a brief talk on the scheme and our approach to the…

Busy year at the University of Salford

Halliday Meecham Architects completed a number of projects at the University of Salford in 2015. The practice delivered new HR and administration facilities at the Maxwell Building, a new IT suite and teaching laboratory at the Newton Building and New Laboratories at the Cockroft Building. The offices and IT suites were delivered in partnership with…

Work starts at Keele University

Work is commencing on site at Keele University to provide new facilities for the School of Life Sciences. The extension to the Huxley Building will provide a new entrance, two large teaching laboratories and a research laboratory. Aspin Construction have been appointed to carry out the work following an OJEU tender process. The project is…

Welcome Back

It has been a busy few months since we began working on our new website. The year got off to a good start with the success of our event at Kosmonaut in Manchester it was great to have clients, collaborators and friends together and we are looking forward to another event in 2016. Planning permission was approved for…

Spire Nottingham Hospital Progress

The enabling works have been completed on site which involved extensive site decontamination, levelling and the construction of a new access road and services to the Tollerton site. The substructure ground beams, pile caps and drainage is being completed in phases across the 8 acre site and construction of the primary steelwork frame is progressing at a fast…

Spire Manchester Hospital Progress

Spire Manchester Hospital is progressing well on site. The concrete frame is almost finished.

HMA Summer BBQ

After a busy summer we had a well- earned afternoon off at Eleven Didsbury Park Hotel and enjoyed a BBQ, a few cold beers and a incredibly competitive croquet competition.