Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios creates Passivhaus student housing crescents in Cambridge

December 21st 2022 - Posted by

Architecture practice Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has created a series of crescent-shaped student housing blocks with a CLT structure for King’s College at the University of Cambridge.

Called Stephen Taylor Court, the blocks contain 84 homes for King’s College’s graduate students and fellows that were designed to Passivhaus standards and to have as low a carbon impact as possible.

“Due to the considered material choice, prioritising low-embodied carbon materials, reuse of existing materials, local sourcing and targeting recycled content, and accounting for carbon sequestered in the cross-laminated timber, the project has negative embodied carbon on completion as more carbon has been sequestered in its production than emitted,” Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios partner Hugo Marrack told Dezeen …

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New mixed-use neighbourhood coming to east London

December 13th 2022 - Posted by

The London Borough of Redbridge has unanimously approved plans for a mixed-use scheme in Ilford, East London. Designed by HTA for client Telford Homes, the scheme will deliver 837 new homes and 447 new student bedrooms, all supported by what will be the largest piece of greened public realm in Ilford and activated at ground level by new retail, workspace and leisure spaces …

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Huge new 260-bed block of student flats given planning permission

November 17th 2022 - Posted by

A huge new block of student flats with 260 beds has been given planning permission in St Phillip’s. The six-storey block of flats will be built in an industrial area east of Temple Meads that’s been earmarked for massive regeneration projects over the next few years.

Bristol City Council granted planning permission to developers Watkin Jones and Merrion on Wednesday, November 16, after hearing how student flats would cater for the rapidly expanding University of Bristol. The university is planning to open a new campus nearby …

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Amro Partners invests in student housing project in Spain

October 26th 2022 - Posted by

Amro Partners has bought a new student housing project in Spain alongside joint venture partner Falco Capital.

Amro said the Amro Estudiantes Alicante project has €30m gross development value and will deliver 280 student beds in San Vicente del Raspeig in Alicante. The asset is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2025.

Amro, which entered the Iberia purpose-built student housing (PBSA) market in 2018, has so far undertaken transactions across Spain and Portugal totalling 2,500 beds with a €275m gross development value. Amro expects to have a portfolio of 5,000 beds over the next 3 years …

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Singapore PE firm swoops for major new student accommodation scheme

October 20th 2022 - Posted by

A new student accommodation scheme in central Leeds has been sold to Q Investment Partners (QIP), a Singapore-headquartered private equity real estate firm, in a deal worth about £15m.

The 88 studio apartments with associated amenities, are being built at 26-34 Merrion Street.

Work will start this month, and the scheme will be ready for occupation in time for the start of the 2024/25 academic year …

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Planning permission secured for £75m student accommodation scheme in Hackney Wick

October 20th 2022 - Posted by

Developer Southern Grove has secured permission to create a £75million mixed-use student accommodation scheme that will complete the transformation of Hackney Wick into one of the fastest growing educational and cultural centres in London.

Most importantly, the project will house two organisations of huge importance to the local community, on a peppercorn rent for 150 years.

The Piano Works, on the site of the former Broadwood piano factory in Fish Island, will house 204 student beds in two six and seven-storey blocks …

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