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Article: Date for work on library; CENTENARY SQUARE.(News)
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- Birmingham Mail (England)
- Article date:
- February 22, 2008
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WORK will begin on Birmingham's pounds 193 million library in Centenary Square on November 24 next year.
Officials named the day that construction would begin and said the entire project would be completed a week before the Christmas of 2012.
The decision to be so specific was taken by the council leadership to end scepticism about the feasibility of delivering a world class library.
It also emerged that the new library is to be built on top of an old canal.
An investigation by the Scott Wilson Consultancy found that, under a "worst case scenario", the water table underneath Centenary Square could rise by about 55ft during the lifetime ...