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The Foundry Museum
A former ironworks rebuilt as a museum, with an exposed concrete stair cast in one continuous pour.
Client
Foundry Trust
Location
Birmingham
Contract value
£33m
Size
9,600 m²
Programme
28 months
Completed
2025
The brief
A former ironworks rebuilt as a museum, with an exposed concrete stair cast in one continuous pour. Foundry Trust needed a fixed completion date and a contractor willing to hold it.
How we built it
We modelled the full 28 months programme before breaking ground and agreed every long-lead package in the first eight weeks. Structure and envelope ran in overlapping zones so the building was watertight well before fit-out began.
The result
Handed over in 2025 on the agreed date and within the £33m contract sum, with no lost-time incidents on site and a defects list closed inside four weeks.
