Old College Multimedia Gallery

The Atrium April 2025

Extending over seven floors the new atrium will open up the grade 1 listed Old College, providing easy access at all levels for the very first time in its 160-year history. At the beginning of April, the work reached ground level and these images catch the journey to this point.

A view of the old Estates Building (white), looking towards Pier Street, prior to demolition.
Work on the Georgian villas as seen from King Street.
Scaffold removal at the rear of the Georgian villas.
Preparation works to piling mat.
Piling mat completion and testing.
Commencement of contiguous piling.
Piling Operation.
Commencement of excavation of basement.
Commencement of excavation of basement.
Exposing top of piles as preparation works to construct pile capping beam.
Shotcrete being applied to Cambria wall due to structural stability of masonry below previous ground level.
Shotcrete operation.
Underpinning of villas foundations to enable further excavation of the basement to the required level.
Underpinning Cambria building.
Underpinning of Villas foundations continue.
Full excavation of basement.
Excavating remainder of material.
Marking the completion of the excavation of the atrium site – November 2024.
Commencing reinforcement for basement slab.
Pour of high-level basement concrete slab.
Reinforcement to basement walls.
Reinforcement continues to basement walls.
Deck and reinforcement for ground floor slab.
Members of Andrew Scott LTD, Principal Contractor on the Old College Project, and sub-contractor M&C Civils, mark the completion of the atrium’s ground floor concrete slab – April 2025.

Roofing Gallery - March 2025

The South Seddon turrets before work begins.
Timber work under the slate, in preparation for removing rotten sections.
The original finial on the main turret that has deteriorated over the years.
The finial on one of the tourelles that has also perished.
The original finial on the main turret that has deteriorated over the years.
Recording details of the turrets before work begins.
Recording details of the turrets before work begins.
Cleaning the timber work on the main turret.
Cleaning the timber work on the main turret.
Inside the main turret.
Protected from the weather: Temporary coverings needed to be installed, removed and re-installed constantly between rain showers and a succession of significant storms.
Installation of the renovated cast-iron guttering.
The main turret all boarded and ready for slating.
Timberworks completed and new lead installed, ready for the installation of cast-iron gutters.
New boards on the main turret.
New green slates being put in place. These are from Vermont in the US as the original green slate from Dyffryn Nantlle are no longer available.
Slating under way with the cast-iron guttering in place.
Slating under way.
The three turrets with slating in progress.
The three turrets with slating in progress.
The three turrets with slating in progress.
New slates on the main turret signed and dated.
Members of the Greenough & Sons team who are re-roofing the Old College.
Marking the placing of the final slate on 5 March 2025 (left to right): Jon Greenough (Greenough & Sons); Neil Cains (Andrew Scott Ltd); Matthew Dyer (Austin Smith Lord), Jim O’Rourke (Aberystwyth University) and Calum Duncan (Andrew Scott).