HAALO was the funder’s Lead Construction Advisor on One Eastside — Birmingham’s tallest residential tower — where its forensic due diligence concluded the technical case and cleared the way for its institutional funder, Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC), to commit.
One Eastside is Birmingham’s tallest residential tower — 667 Build to Rent homes across towers of 51 and 16 storeys, rising 155.5m beside the new HS2 station at Curzon Street, with over 20,000 sq ft of amenity including a sky lounge, cinema room and co-working space. A £200m scheme for PIC, developed by Sphere Group and built by Midgard, it completes in 2026.
The funder's technical authority before commitment.
HAALO acted as Lead Construction Advisor to PIC — the funder’s technical authority on a landmark, high-value asset, from forensic due diligence before commitment through design and delivery. Working to the principle of establishing risk early to drive certainty of design, delivery and compliance, HAALO looked beyond the drawings - focusing on details not yet designed, concluding the technical case and clearing the way for the funder to commit.
Due diligence that looked beyond the drawings.
HAALO's detailed technical due diligence approach established certainty for PIC – challenging the design solutions to align them with PIC’s development brief. HAALO interrogated the technical case forensically — identifying and resolving design gaps that would otherwise have surfaced later as construction liabilities.
That work streamlined the funding decision and helped the deal progress to a confident conclusion, securing the start of Birmingham's tallest residential tower.
HAALO also brought fire-safety foresight to the design. On the 16-storey tower then drawn to a single-staircase strategy, HAALO made the case for a second staircase, well ahead of the regulation that would later require it.
Meeting and exceeding the standard — building for where it was heading, not only where it stood — is HAALO’s baseline. PIC took the decision to build it in, and two staircases are now integral to the tower’s central core.
Tested and defensible before the funder committed.
HAALO’s due diligence concluded the technical case, and the scheme proceeded. Completing in 2026, One Eastside is Birmingham’s tallest residential tower — a landmark institutional asset whose technical position was tested and defensible before the funder committed.
One Eastside completes in 2026; at topping out, the first 140 of its 667 homes were released for rent. It is early to evidence in operation, with proof to follow as the asset lets up and beds in — and the two-staircase foresight already borne out as the regulation firms up.
667 Build to Rent apartments across towers of 51 & 16 storey towers (155.5m); 20,000+ sq ft amenity.
- Forensic technical due diligence ('beyond the drawings').
- Design-gap resolution record; single- to two-staircase recommendation.
- Deal completion record.
