BOWER TERRACE, MAIDSTONE, KENT

Contract: JCT Design and Build (DB) 2005
Value: £3,250,000
Duration: 47 weeks
Completed: July 2007
Architect: Osel Architecture
Structural Engineer: R J Witt Associates
Employers Agent/Cost Consultant: Banks Wood & Partners

New build facility for student accommodation including separate warden and communal area blocks, comprising of 114 study bedrooms within 15 cluster flats. Each cluster flat contained between 5 to 8 study bedrooms with en-suite prefabricated bathroom pods together with communal kitchen and dining room areas.

The design and build structural solution consisted of 18m long bored concrete piles and pre-cast concrete ring beams which supported a timber frame.

The façade comprised upvc fenestration within horizontal treated Thermowood timber cladding and self coloured render areas.