£35m Nottingham art school gets green light
Plans for a £35m university building in Nottingham city centre have been given the planning go-ahead
Work will start early next year on the nine-storey block, which will house Nottingham Trent University’s School of Art and Design.
Bowmer & Kirkland and GF Tomlinson are understood to be in the bidding for the project which has been designed by architect Hawkins Brown.
The planned building at 40–42 Shakespeare Street will provide a variety of workspaces for designing and making, collaboration areas, specialist studios and labs.
The building has been designed to achieve BREEAM ‘Excellent’ and DEC ‘A’ rating.
Design decisions, such as the use of post-tensioned concrete slabs and ceramic cladding, have helped to reduce their carbon impact using Hawkins\Brown’s self-developed, open-source H\B:ERT software.
Nottingham School of Art and Design project team
Architect: Hawkins Brown
Structural & Civil Engineer: Mott Macdonald
MEP engineer: Waterman
Carbon consultant: Hawkins Brown
Project Manager: Turner & Townsend
Cost consultant: Turner & Townsend
Fire Engineer: Arup
Liverpool student block developer goes under
Subcontractors and suppliers across the North West are braced to lose millions after the company behind the 16-storey Natex student accommodation scheme in Liverpool fell into administration.
Mount Group Student Natex was developing the £45m scheme which was due for completion in December.
The company is now in the hands of administrators Mazars but the wider Mount Group remains unaffected.
Mount Group Student Natex was incorporated in 2016 and work started on the 574-bed scheme in 2019 with Manchester based Barton PM as management contractor.
Mazars told the Liverpool Echo: “The administrators are presently assessing the financial position of the company with a view to determining the optimal strategy for the completion of the development.
“The company’s financial position has been adversely affected by delays and increased costs resulting from, among other factors, the Covid-19 pandemic and supply chain issues associated with the pandemic and Brexit.”
One local subcontractor told the Enquirer: “Payments have been delayed for ages on this job and suppliers are owed millions.”
