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The Mill was refurbished with the support of volunteers and trainees and is one of Manchester's most environmentally friendly buildings. [6] Manchester Civic Society acknowledged this in 2001 when Bridge 5 Mill won an award as Manchester's most energy efficient building. [7] A green roof was added in 2008 to encourage wildlife to the building. [8]
Greater Manchester is home to various companies which operate in the United Kingdom or further afield in Europe and around the world. The city has a highly diversified economy and is a centre for cultural industries, retail, transport, logistics, financial, legal and manufacturing sectors.
The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at The University of Manchester is one of the oldest earth and environmental science departments in the UK. The department takes roughly 100 new undergraduates and 140 postgraduates each year, and employs 90 members of academic staff which include 41 postdoctoral researchers, 27 technical staff, and 20 administrative staff.
One Angel Square [1] is a high-rise office building in Manchester, England.Construction work began in 2010 and was completed in February 2013. The landmark building is the head office of the Co-operative Group.
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The Manchester Ship Canal, the 36-mile (58 km) long river navigation was designed to give the city of Manchester direct access to the sea, and was built between 1887 and 1894 at a cost of about £15 million (£1.27 billion as of 2010), and in its day was the largest navigation canal in the world.
In 2013 Manchester was ranked 6th in the UK for quality of life, according to a rating of the UK's 12 largest cities. [17] Manchester is considered to be a 'beta -' global city, rated as the second most globally influential city in the UK after London with Edinburgh third, Belfast fourth and Glasgow fifth. [18]
The M postcode area, also known as the Manchester postcode area, [2] is a group of postcode districts in the North West of England. The districts are subdivisions of three post towns : Manchester , Salford and Sale and cover parts of all ten boroughs of Greater Manchester, primarily the cities of Manchester and Salford and the majority of the ...