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Mount Oswald, Durham University
Construction of two distinct colleges for John Snow and 17th Colleges within the University, comprising 1000 bed spaces, two college heart buildings, and a hub building with formal dining facilities.
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Project Overview
New build 1,000 room student accommodation development, creating a new campus, along with supporting student centre and other buildings. The Mount Oswald project includes a new home for the John Snow and 17th Colleges, together with new student residential accommodation providing 1,000 self-catering bed spaces with a mixture of en-suite and shared bathroom accommodation. Each college includes a central heart building providing a JCR/bar area and office space. The development consists of 5 blocks, all four storeys high and includes all the structural elements from ground beams to finished elevations. The superstructure for all 5 blocks comprises precast concrete panels all of which are made up of DfMA components that were prefabricated off-site for PCE. The overall development also includes a Hub building with an events hall, music rooms, performance practice room, yoga/dance studio and a faithroom.
The variety of structural solutions are each tailored to the architectural layouts of the buildings they make up.
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The Challenge
To stay within the confines of the project programme timeframe for the build and avoid any delays of delivering the project
Our Solution
We developed a Curtins Precast workflow to streamline the creation of precast concrete DfMA manufactured drawings, combining several new ways of working into a less time consuming more calculated process.
Project Highlights
DfMA and precast structure
1000 student bed space
The development covers an internal area of 323,000 sq ft
Awards
Best Use of Concrete Technology – Winner - at the Offsite awards 2021
Student Accommodation Conference & Awards 2020 University Halls of Residence of the Year – Winner
Collaboration of the Year – Winner
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