Project/Title: Holyrood North & South block Student Accommodation, Edinburgh EH8 8EH

Location: Holyrood, Edinburgh

Building Type: Student Accommodation

Completed: July 2015

System: Aluprof MB-SR50n Curtainwall, MB 59s windows, Timber composite windows

Value: £1.1m

Main Contractor: Balfour Beatty

Architect: JM Architects/ Oberlanders – north, Richard Murphy Architects – south

Description: The scheme, completed by Balfour Beatty construction on behalf of The University of Edinburgh comprises a number of Student Accommodation buildings, a University Outreach Centre and a public café/bistro.

The campus also provides new retail, social spaces and landscaped courtyards alongside residential accommodation for 924 post-graduate students. The project was a collaboration with Oberlanders Architects, 442 Interior Design and HarrisonStevens Landscape Architects on the north block and Richard murphy architects on the south Block.

Marshall Brown produced a solution for the bespoke projecting oriel windows to the south block, engineering a supporting steel structure, aluclad windows, membranes, flashings which were all installed into techcrete pre-cast concrete panels at their facility in Brigg, north lincolnshire.

The north block consisted of curtainwall with aluminium and timber feature cappings and silicone glazed rooflights.