Dan Whelan
Andy King has joined engineering practice Eckersley O’Callaghan as structural director and will lead the firm’s newly established Manchester office, serving the north of the UK.
The Manchester office is Eckersley O’Callaghan’s ninth in total, adding to sites in London, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Paris, Sydney, Shanghai, and Hong Kong.
King has spent the last four years as director of Waterman Group’s structures division, having previously been partner at multidisciplinary practice Bradshaw Gass & Hope.
“EOC is a company that I have seen grow and have admired for the quality and history of their boundary-pushing work for several years now,” King said.
ATHERTON’S former library is to be sold at auction this month, with a guide price of £100,000. Atherton library, which covers more than 11,000 sq ft, was first opened in 1905 when it was heralded as a super-modern, state-of-the-art public building, lit by electricity and featuring a combined central heating and ventilation system. The library was designed by Bolton’s oldest architectural practice, Bradshaw Gass & Hope, which went on to create Manchester’s Royal Exchange and UMIST. The red-brick building has been vacant since 2018 when the library service was relocated to Atherton the town hall. It will be up for auction on January 20 at Pugh Auctions.
Former community library built 116 years ago goes up for auction - it could be yours
Atherton Library has been closed since 2018 and is now up for sale
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Atherton Library is set to go up for sale via auction. (Image: Pugh Auctions)
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