A student town house development being built using a low carbon construction technique is due to be completed this Summer ready for the new academic year in September.
BSP is structural, civil and transportation engineer for the seven four-storey town house scheme in Castle Boulevard, Nottingham, which has been hailed as setting a new benchmark in the design, environmental performance and provision of social space in the purpose-built student accommodation market.
The primary superstructure is entirely made up of solid cross laminated timber panels, designed by BSP. On the front elevation, the upper floors overhang the ground floor, which was achieved by calling on the solid timber wall panels to act as deep cantilever beams.
Featuring 84 bedrooms, the development includes social space which is 40% larger than typical cluster flats, and which is currently in demand.
The scheme is being built on a former car park, previously the site of a petrol station.
Architects are Church Lukas and the developer Omni Developments.
