Multi-million pound airport office upgrade completes

A £7.5m refurbishment scheme at Manchester Airport’s Trident development has been completed to offer 88,000 sq ft of space.

The scheme included the remodelling and upgrading three offices to create a single Grade A building.

Bringing together the three buildings is The Drum, a three-storey rotunda, creating two glass-fronted office suites connected by bridges to the upper floors and a new entrance on the ground floor.

The atrium provides a tenant hub with coffee bar, meeting space and houses the building’s in-house concierge team.

Russells Construction was appointed to the contract by Property Alliance Group, which bought the property in January 2015.

Vacant at the time, the developer secured three tenants in the first six months of the refurbishment and has since signed a further two tenants leaving 12,000 sq ft available across two suites.

Russells Construction director Gareth Russell said: “Ensuring the works had minimal impact on the existing tenants was a key consideration, and required careful management of the programme throughout. We worked directly with tenants to schedule specific works around their needs, and provided weekly updates on where we would be working and any impact that would have on them. We also phased the works so finished sections could be handed over to the client on completion, to allow new tenants to take occupation as quickly as possible.”

Property Alliance Group director Alex Russell said: “Trident is now truly one of the standout schemes in South Manchester and the strong letting performance has been testament to the quality of workmanship, design and on site amenity that we set out to provide.”

AEW were the architects for the scheme.

CBRE, Colliers International and Williams Commercial are the letting agents.