The Sidings Little Digbeth: structural topping out and design notes for engineers
Reviewed by Joe Ashwell
First reported on The Construction Index
30 Second Briefing
Caddick Construction has topped out The Sidings, a 10-storey, 182,986 sq ft residential block in Little Digbeth, Birmingham, delivering 211 apartments plus new public realm and affordable workspaces for Cole Waterhouse, Taurus Investment Holdings and Housing Growth Partnership. Phase one of the design-and-build scheme started on site in spring last year and has now reached full structural height, with completion targeted for 2027. The brownfield project is backed by devolved regeneration grant funding from the West Midlands Combined Authority, signalling continued public support for dense city-centre residential infill.
Technical Brief
- Brownfield status indicates prior use and likely required remediation, services diversion and careful foundation risk management.
- Devolved WMCA grant funding typically comes with embodied-carbon, energy-performance and local-supply-chain reporting obligations.
- Phase-one design-and-build appointment gives Caddick single-point responsibility for temporary works, sequencing and buildability.
- Integration of public realm and affordable workspaces introduces mixed loading, vibration and acoustic separation design interfaces.
Our Take
Caddick Construction’s work on The Sidings in Birmingham sits alongside its Bicycle Works and St Martin’s Court schemes in our database, signalling a deliberate push into mixed-use and residential projects rather than purely industrial work like Farington Park.
With completion not due until 2027, The Sidings extends Caddick Construction’s forward order book in the West Midlands, complementing its newer East Midlands leadership appointment and suggesting the firm is building a multi-regional urban regeneration pipeline.
Among recent Infrastructure–Projects–Sustainability items, Little Digbeth is one of relatively few West Midlands urban regeneration schemes led by a private developer trio (Cole Waterhouse, Taurus Investment Holdings and HGP) rather than a housing association or public developer, which may give more flexibility in design and phasing around The Sidings.
Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.
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