Willmott Dixon has completed the demolition of a Liverpool car park that was ravaged by fire on New Year’s Eve 2017.
The blaze at the 1,400-space Kings Dock car park was so severe that nearly all of the 1,305 cars parked inside were destroyed.
The demolition was completed earlier this year before Willmott Dixon began construction of a new 1,650-space car park, designed by Leach Rhodes Walker, as part of a £26m contract.
The demolition followed an agreement with insurance companies and liaison with the Association of British Insurers (ABI) including the process and the procedure for the removal of the vehicles not burnt out.
No vehicles could be removed prior to the start of demolition because of safety concerns regarding the fragile nature of the building. Mersey Fire and Rescue Service concluded that temperatures during the blaze reached over 1,000 degrees Celsius, far higher than the previous estimate of 600 degrees, which has caused extreme internal damage to the integrity of the structure.
