FP McCann’s Trademarked Room Solution Product Has Proved Ideally Suited To Student Accommodation.
Site: Selly Oak Student Accommodation
Client: Birmingham City University
Main Contractor: Interserve
Products Supplied: Precast Concrete Modular Room Systems
FP McCann’s structural precast concrete building and architectural façades division worked in close partnership with Interserve Special Projects on the construction of student accommodation on a site acquired by Unite and as part a £71 million major retail development in Selly Oak, Birmingham. The student accommodation block consists of 418 bedrooms over 18 floors.
Construction work began in July 2018, taking ten months to complete the 18 floor building, sited on the grounds of former metal factories known as the ‘Birmingham Battery Company’, which has been vacant since 1980.The accommodation is part of a scheme to re-develop 30-acres of the Battery Park site, ideally located at the heart of the student area and within walking distance of the University of Birmingham.
Main contractor Interserve’s appointed architect Glen Howells Associates had previously worked with FP McCann on another Birmingham University campus development, University Locks near the city centre where a similar precast concrete crosswall/insulated sandwich panel system was used.
On the Selly Oak project, FP McCann provided some 2,500 precast units for the structural frame and the cladding envelope, including walls, floor slabs and external architectural sandwich panels. The internal crosswall sections are 250mm thick and external sandwich facade panels are mainly 495mm thick and 665mm thick on the returns of the corner sections. The inner leaf of the sandwich panel is a 180mm thick structural concrete skin designed to carry its own dead loading and that of the external skin together with floor loading where required. Insulation between the concrete faces is 200mm thick. The outer 50mm facade skin of the sandwich panels is a cut brick slip face. Bricks to the architects specification are Weinberger Ouverture Marziale and together with a colour designed mortar were cast onto the sandwich panels at FP McCann’s specialist architectural factory in Byley, Cheshire.
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