Cabot Circus, Bristol’s flagship shopping centre, opened to the public in September 2008, following a decade of design and planning with four years of site preparation before the main building work began. The scheme includes refurbishment of the 13th century Friary Building, and the development of new 97,000m² of retail space and an 18-storey residential tower, generally constructed with reinforced concrete on piled foundations.
With four floors of retail, Harvey Nichols provides the main store focus to this area. Byrne Bros. works included 14 reinforced concrete cores, typically 30 metres high, with 5 cores being constructed simultaneously.