Despite Manchester living up to its reputation as a rainy city, I’ve been up on the roof of the nearby Halls of Residence on Denmark Road for today’s shot of the construction site – its almost exactly two months since the last visit (see: http://capitaldevelopmentwhitworth.wordpress.com/2013/09/19/latest-view-of-our-emerging-new-building-2/) and the most obvious differences are the glazing of the Promenade and Cafe – the subject of the last blog post – and the completeness of the Exhibition Galleries’ roofs, which although within the area of the current new build, is actually a long-term maintenance job, funded as part of the whole project by the University of Manchester. This new roof re-uses existing slates, but incorporates new state of the art roof-lights and crucially is now well insulated as part of the overall energy saving strategy. The white blocks visible elsewhere in the photo are further insulating material ready to go onto the areas of…