Multi-million pound contract for Steven Hunt at Tobacco Warehouse

Liverpool-based M&E specialist Steven Hunt & Associates has won a multi-million-pound contract to work on the iconic Tobacco Warehouse as part of the 125-acre Ten Streets regeneration at the city’s North Docks.

The Tobacco Warehouse originally opened in 1901 as the world’s largest brick warehouse, but after being derelict for many years, the grade II- listed building will now be converted into 538 state-of-the-art apartments being developed by Irish-based Harcourt Developments.

Steven Hunt has delivered a string of M&E contracts across a number of large scale developments in the North West, with recently completed projects including Ohel Torah Shul Synagogue in Salford and The Royal Court in Liverpool and the new Urgent Care & Trauma Centre at Aintree University Hospital.

Paul Manning at Harcourt Developments said: “Tobacco Warehouse is the next step in Liverpool’s regeneration, one which will bring the focus of the Waterfront up into the northern Docks.

“For such an important development, we wanted to ensure that we had the most skilled M&E consultants we could find and on meeting Steve and the team at Steven Hunt Associates we believe we have found that, the fact that they were local provided added benefit.”

Set to blueprint the services distribution units on the 36-acre site, the M&E consultant will design the central boiler unit to serve the new apartments, with the potential for a combined heat and power (CHP) system to create economic and energy efficient benefits for all of the future residents.

Steven Hunt & Associates’ work at Tobacco Warehouse will also include the design of energy efficient lighting, access control, a full infrastructure distribution system, sprinklers to apartments and car park ventilation to the basement.

Steve Hunt, managing director of Steven Hunt & Associates, said: “Harcourt Developments are experts in this type of large scale redevelopment, so together we are hoping to create something the city can be truly proud of and I am exceptionally proud of my team.”