One of the UK’s most important cities, Cardiff has hugely changed over the last 15 – 20 years, growing to fulfil its role as the administrative as well as cultural capital city of Wales.


The Cardiff Bay Barrage development created a redevelopment zone in areas that had been solely industrial, whereas the off-shoot of the construction of the Millennium Stadium in the city centre was hug regeneration.


The final area of the city’s regeneration scheme, which will link the two redeveloped zones together, is now in the planning stage. The area was once home to Cardiff’s busy dockside is known as Bluetown or locally as Tiger Bay.


As part of this ongoing redevelopment Willmott will construct a new college campus for Cardiff and Vale College on a site once used for heavy industry, which has been decontaminated, but which still suffers from its time as a railway sleeper dipping plant, with high levels of creosote contamination.


This contamination has forced the developers to change the way they’re working the land, including using 5m – 6m driven precast concrete piles to depths of 15m with the aim of reducing the disturbance of hydrocarbons in the ground.


The college campus should be handed over in plenty of time for the new intake of students in September 2015 and with highly acclaimed architecture and BREAM Excellent environmental rating, features a number of innovative solutions, this should be one of the UK’s standout college campus’.