Refurbishment of a disused office building into 150 student units, with basement car parking. The development has great social spaces consisting of cinema, gym and communal dining areas with kitchen for entertaining and group meals.
Duties: Full detail design for the M&E contractor, including SBEM and EPC.
Client: Minton Group
Architect: Falconer Chester Hall
Part new build and part conversion of existing Edwardian townhouses, the development consists of around 170 student units. The project is currently in the detail design phase.
Duties: Full detail design, including site monitoring, SAP and EPCs
Client: IMAP Students Ltd
Architect: Staniforth Architects
Contractor: JA Ball
The project was a conversion of an existing building, with two new storeys of accommodation constructed on the roof. The development consists of around 90 student units. The building was a disused post office with many original features, this proved to be a challenge during design development stage.
Duties: Full detail design, including site monitoring, SAP and EPCs
Client: Waldron Developments
Architect: RG+P Leicester
New build student development in the centre of Loughborough. The brief was to design an electrically heated building but as efficient as possible to keep running costs and carbon emissions low. This was done primarily by working with RG+P to enhance the building fabric and air tightness to reach compliance.
Duties: Full detail design including site monitoring, SAP and EPCs.
Client: Minton Group
BEC are currently undertaking four projects for Minton Group, with around 550 student units being created. Redvers House is a 14-storey tower block in Sheffield City centre.
Unusual for student developments, this is a very high end project with full comfort cooling to all rooms, heat recovery demand led ventilation and 100MB broadband to all units. Also, quite unusually, the main heat source for the building is from Sheffield’s district heating main.
Duties: Full detail design, including thermal modelling and site monitoring.
Conversion of existing disused office block into student accommodation with new build additional storey on the roof. The development consists of around 50 student beds in a combination of studios, one and two bed flats and cluster flats with shared kitchens and lounges. The heating is electric, with hot water being delivered from central gas fired water heaters.
Duties: Full detail design including site monitoring, SAP and EPC.
Part new build and part conversion, the development consists of around 150 student units. The hot water design was based around air source heat pumps to provide on site renewables to achieve Leicester City Council’s renewables target of 13 per cent.
Duties: Full detail design including site monitoring, SAP and EPCs.
