Winvic Construction Ltd has completed the first 330 rooms at Crown Place in Nottingham for client Crown Student Living; approximately 250 new residents moved in on Saturday 18th September in time for the new university term.
In Birmingham, Winvic’s second Purpose Built Student Accommodation (PBSA) project for Crown Student Living can be seen coming out of the ground after extensive demolition, site clearance and preparatory groundworks, with the shuttering and ground core for the first floor underway.
Winvic began work in December 2021 in Nottingham to deliver 426 student apartments – comprising 230 studios and 196 cluster flats – which can be found within a single six-storey concrete framed building. The residents shared areas including a 4,300 sq ft social space, a 820 sq ft gym and 300 sq ft of dining rooms as well as cinema, karaoke and games rooms totalling 1,100 sq ft have been completed for the sectional handover.
Winvic has been working with Nottingham City Council to create local employment opportunities and for openings for people to enter the construction industry. The project will continue until January 2024, when the remaining 96 rooms will be handed over.
The building that Winvic is constructing in Birmingham is a 33-storey tower with nine and 12 storey ‘shoulder’ blocks to each side. The 814 student bed spaces – 572 in studios, 114 inside cluster flats and 128 within Duplex rooms – will be handed over in December 2025. Internally there are also numerous amenity spaces for students totalling over 13,000 sq ft; including lounges, study areas, dining rooms, a gym and cinema. There is a 700 sq ft external terrace at the first-floor level, three blue roofs at different levels and a green roof on the 33rd floor.
Not only is this Winvic’s tallest project to date, it is also the first time the team will be installing a unitised façade. With the building fitting tight to the site boundary lines, this construction method ensures factory-quality, negates the requirement for scaffolding and the 2,600 external floor-to-floor height wall panels – which are full finished with windows and brickwork – can be installed rapidly.
Lancaster St is the fifth design, construction and fit-out multi-room project that Winvic is currently delivering in Birmingham city centre and by working closely with Birmingham City Council, Winvic is maximising opportunities for local employment and training, from Apprenticeships to work placements.
Mark Jones, Director of Multi-room at Winvic, commented: “We have been working with Crown Student Living for almost two years and we were delighted that they put their trust in us to deliver a second high quality and facility packed student accommodation scheme in Birmingham. Over at Crown Place in Nottingham, our team have worked expertly to ensure that the sectional handover of the first 250 apartments would take place on time, and I’d like to thank them; they will be on site until January 2024 when the project is fully complete.
“With approximately eight months before we top out at the thirty-third floor of the exciting Lancaster Street, Birmingham project, we’re looking forward to bringing Crown Student Living’s vision to life in both schemes and developing our relationship with our client further through our one-team approach.”
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