The Venue

ACC Liverpool is an award-winning building located on the world-famous Liverpool waterfront. It sits alongside the Grade I listed Albert Dock complex and World Heritage Site on the eastern bank of the river Mersey, in the heart of Liverpool city centre.

ACC Liverpool’s facilities are unique in Europe; the award-winning BT Convention Centre (which houses a 1,350 seat auditorium, 18 break out rooms and 7000 m2 of exhibition space) and the 11,000-capacity Echo Arena are interlinked by a central galleria which joins the two venues - the only design of its kind on this continent - providing you with a unique landscape to stage your event.

One of the most sustainable venues in Europe, ACC Liverpool is designed to reduce by half its CO2 emissions. Features across the complex control light, temperature and electricity usage and harvest rainwater for toilet flushing, while a crop of turbines on the river generate its own electricity supply. The design, by award-winning architects Wilkinson Eyre, has been awarded a string of environmental and architectural accolades.

ACC Liverpool cost £164 million to build, financed by Liverpool City Council, English Partnerships, the NWDA and ERDF funding. The building is owned by Liverpool City Council and run by ACC Liverpool Ltd. on its behalf - Liverpool City Council is the sole shareholder and a number of senior council employees sit on the board.

ACC Liverpool opened in January 2008 with the opening event for Liverpool: European Capital of Culture and has since played host to a string of international events, including the MTV Europe Music Awards, BBC Sports Personality of the Year and Cirque du Soleil, concert performances Elton John, Bob Dylan and Beyoncé, the third Cabinet meeting outside London and conferences as diverse as the Liberal Democrats, the Association of Chief Police Officers and the Association of Clinical Biochemistry.