Project Details
Project: Greenbank Student Village
Client: University of Liverpool
Faculty: School of Architecture
Main Contractor: ULCCO Special Projects Ltd
Architect: Sheppard Robson
Structural Engineers: Booth King Partnership
Building Services: White Young Green
Programme
Work is carried out over 3 Phases comprising of new build, refurbishment and work on a Grade 2* listed building all within the confines of a highly sensitive conservation area.
Start Date: 15 September 2014
Completion Date: 9 September 2019
Overall Duration: 256 Weeks
Capital Investment: £116 million
Engagement Details
ULCCO SP have been partnering for several years now with the faculties of Architecture and Engineering, providing students with live working construction environments to assist them in their studies and allow them to engage with professional and technical construction staff.
These construction educational workshops are on new University of Liverpool construction sites on both main campus and at Greenbank Student Village. These site visits are providing both student and academics with access to a high degree of technical knowledge, literature and live construction activities.
Unlike any other University in the UK, the University of Liverpool students are able to engage with construction professionals directly on their own construction sites offering access to the following:
- Professional technical knowledge
- Architectural and Engineering construction detailing
- Engagement with the main contractor
- On site access to all construction activities from foundations right through the build process to final finishes
- Construction techniques, best practice, regulatory & conformity, Building Regulation compliance and latest topical dialogue
Engagement Evaluation
- Construction site visits supported to the curriculum
- Construction projects drawing & detailing packs for students
- Student engagement with construction professionals
- Engagement on best practice for procurement and construction techniques
- Site tours looking at all building techniques and detailing
- Inspections of the works at varying stages, applying architectural detailing to the “as built” product
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The March post graduate students from the School of Architecture greatly appreciate the input provided by the ULCCO team on the Greenbank Construction site. Allowing them the opportunity to view a project at an interesting time of construction as well as appreciate the contractor’s perspective on design development and detailing. This experience was invaluable to our module. The ULCCO site team were also able to explain how a modern procurement system works and the importance of the supply chain for the delivery of design excellence.
Peter Farrall, School of Architecture
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