{"id":8678,"date":"2025-10-24T20:46:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T20:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=8678"},"modified":"2025-10-24T20:46:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T20:46:44","slug":"partial-collapse-hits-manchester-demolition-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/partial-collapse-hits-manchester-demolition-job\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Partial collapse\u2019 hits Manchester demolition job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The partial collapse of a building under demolition in Manchester sent scaffolding falling into the adjacent River Irwell on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Contractor PP O&#8217;Connor is demolishing the 12-storey Alberton House in the city centre for developer Bruntwood SciTech who plan a new 18-storey office block on the site.<\/p>\n<p>Bruntwood SciTech told the <em>Manchester Evening News<\/em>: &#8220;We can confirm that this afternoon there was a partial collapse at Alberton House, which is currently undergoing a full demolition.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-mpu ad-mpu-inline\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\"><a data-ad-id=\"462809\" href=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/themes\/constructionenquirer\/adclick.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vpgroundforce.com%2Fgb%2Fpipe-stoppers%2F%3Futm_source%3Dconstruction-enquirer%26utm_medium%3Dbanner%26utm_campaign%3Dconstructionenq-ads\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"track_ad_click(this);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/stoppers SS PTS MPU Ad 300_250px.gif\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is what it\u2019s like at the moment. I\u2019ve been told that work is now being done to \u201cmake the area safe\u201d. Fire fighters are also on the scene. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MENnewsdesk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MENnewsdesk<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CMtbRClKhX\">pic.twitter.com\/CMtbRClKhX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rami (@RAMIMWAMBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RAMIMWAMBA\/status\/1981738233135337597?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 24, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While we appreciate the noise this generated may have caused some alarm, on a site of this complexity all eventualities are planned for meaning we were able to follow agreed safety protocols.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As such, there was no risk to the on-site team, neighbouring buildings or the general public.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Contractors PP O&#8217;Connor remain on site and work will continue as planned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-mpu ad-mpu-inline\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\"><a data-ad-id=\"500202\" href=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/themes\/constructionenquirer\/adclick.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftinyurl.com%2F58yp64j7%3Futm_source%3Dconstruction-enquirer%26utm_medium%3Dbanner%26utm_campaign%3Dconstructionenq-ads\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"track_ad_click(this);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bcsa 9Z3A9OUo.gif\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-mpu ad-mpu-inline\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\"><a data-ad-id=\"128950\" href=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/themes\/constructionenquirer\/adclick.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jctltd.co.uk%2Fnetwork-signup\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"track_ad_click(this);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/JCT-Network_ConstructionEnq_MPU_300x250px-2025.gif\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>from Construction Enquirer https:\/\/ift.tt\/lBp03D4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The partial collapse of a building under demolition in Manchester sent scaffolding falling into the adjacent River Irwell on Friday afternoon. Contractor PP O&#8217;Connor is demolishing the 12-storey Alberton House in the city centre for developer Bruntwood SciTech who plan a new 18-storey office block on the site. Bruntwood SciTech told the Manchester Evening News: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-8678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8679,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8678\/revisions\/8679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}