Octagon progresses
Enabling work progresses on Octagon, the world-first pure octagonal residential tower at the northern apex of the Paradise site.
As well as piling work taking place with a large mobile piling rig, demolition of the previous 77 Paradise Circus Queensway office building is well underway with the seven storey building almost completely dismantled.
The dinosaur-like muncher has been kept busy munching away at the building bit by bit. Dust is being kept down thanks to water jets and careful positioning of the equipment
The majority of material from the building is also being recycled and will be actively re-purposed.
Bringing 370 new homes to the city centre, the 155 metre tall Octagon will be on site later this year. Contractor Midgard will be installing a 179-metre tower crane – the tallest tower crane ever used in the city and the same height as the Gherkin in London, or twice the height of the Statue of Liberty.
Octagon is due to complete in 2025 and will bring some of the best city living homes ever constructed in the UK to the heart of Birmingham.
For more on Octagon and its progress, please visit our Live page.
