We were proud to attend the topping out ceremony for our 10,690sqm building on Paradise Street in Coventry. The milestone ceremony was attended by representatives from Galliford Try’s Building East Midlands, AXO Student Living and Elite Group.

Located on a gateway site close to Coventry City University’s Priory Street Campus, the new scheme consists of three towers that complete a gap in a ‘necklace’ of taller buildings located around the City Ring Road. The 893 room student village offers a diverse range of study and social spaces to provide a high-quality student residential experience.

Accommodation is arranged within a row of three storey townhouses, which follow the curve of London Road, serving to clearly define the site perimeter and shielding the rest of the site from the busy road. Three towers, rising to ten, twelve and fourteen storeys, oversail the townhouses and are arranged so as to create courtyards of varying sizes between. The orientation of the towers complements existing and recently consented developments adjacent to the site.

Galliford Try provided a 3D computer generated walk through as part of their Considerate Contractor’s scheme. They had used FBM’s Revit model and included digitally captured site information to provide a training tool. This was presented in the Coventry University Simulation Centre via a large scale immersive projection.