GMI Construction has won a project to build a new purpose-built student accommodation scheme in Leeds, UK with 604 beds.
As part of the £40m project, GMI will serve as the main contractor and construct the new 15-storey scheme on Carlton Hill.
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The development will see the demolition of a 20-year old, 239-bed student accommodation block to construct the new building which will focus on environment to support student’s mental health and well-being.
The building has been designed to provide affordable living for the students.
GMI Construction divisional managing director Lee Powell said: “The scheme enables GMI to enhance its successful track record of delivering student residential living and we are proud to be involved in a ground-breaking design that caters for students’ mental wellbeing.”
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The new student accommodation building will feature several fully landscaped three-storey ‘sky gardens’.
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By GlobalDataThe open-air theme of the building has its own courtyard and extends to ground floor level. It also provides natural as well as interactive spaces for student studying and to encourage socialising among them.
Pickard Properties and Unipol Student Homes have carried out planning for several years with regard to the project. It will be leased for use by University of Leeds students, exclusively.
Unipol Student Homes official Martin Blakey said: “We are looking forward to 2023 when we will take delivery of what will be an exciting new living environment, available at an affordable rent providing value for money, for students of the university.
“Everyone involved in this development has worked hard to ensure this building will be a home from home and a great place to live.”
The new building will welcome students from University of Leeds in September 2023.
GMI has secured a project to build new 604-bed student scheme in Leeds. Credit: GMI Construction.
