This £15m, 270-bedroom building on Coquet Street in the Ouseburn area, the city’s emerging cultural and creative quarter.
The development comprises five separate blocks around a private courtyard and three of these blocks are constructed from shipping container pods, which are built in China, and arrive on site completely fitted out as bedrooms and bathrooms.
Phase one, comprising 151 rooms was completed in August 2015 and phase two completed at the end of 2016. Capita provided civil, structural and geo-environmental services.
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Across the UK, our clients rely on us every day to de-risk, simplify, and un-complicate things. How? With the right team and the right solution – on time, and on budget.
Working with public and private sector organisations, we provide specialist project and cost management, engineering and design, health and safety, and environmental solutions. We do things differently, specialising in infrastructure – the physical networks which keep the country moving, as well as the social infrastructure which creates communities people want to be a part of – and in building solutions, from architectural innovation to sustainable and technologically advanced design and delivery.
