£29.5m Student Accommodation contract award

We are delighted to confirm that our Manchester office has been selected as preferred bidder for the construction of the Birley Fields Student Accommodation project for Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU).

This £29.5 million project will see the construction of three blocks of student accommodation that will be 16, 11 and 6 storeys high, providing 491 student beds in total. MMU is the largest campus based undergraduate university in the UK with a student population of 37,000.

Birley Fields will increase the availability of quality student accommodation for the MMU student population. This will be our third project for MMU following the successful delivery of a Scape project and the good relationship we have built with them on our current 6 Great Marlborough Street project.

The site is located in a prominent elevated city centre location just off Princess Parkway, providing another opportunity to further raise our profile in the city centre and in the student accommodation sector. This project means that we now have 1,345 student beds in various stages of project delivery across Northern.

The project will consist of an in situ concrete frame, traditional brickwork facades, offsite manufactured bathroom pods and the full internal fit out inclusive of all furniture, fixtures and equipment. Works are planned to start on site in early 2019 with a 100 week construction programme.