Bluestone - Mixed-Use Development - Sheffield, £9.5m Job to Build Sheffield Student Halls

Date: 09 Nov 2006

Bluestone has won a £9.5 million contract to build a new student accommodation scheme in Sheffield for the UK's largest provider of Student Hospitality, the UNITE Group plc (UNITE) in Sheffield.

The brand new accommodation, known as The Forge 2, is being built on the former site of the Bed Nightclub and will complete the development of UNITE's existing student accommodation also known as The Forge 2. The development will provide six retail units of approximately 1,600 m2 on the ground floor and 221 bedrooms in a seven-storey building in the heart of Sheffield's busy city centre. The development will be built using modular construction techniques with components manufactured off site and delivered just in time to meet the programme. The new development will retain the original façade of the old Bed Nightclub.

"We are delighted that our key client UNITE has once again chosen Bluestone to deliver a major scheme for them," says Paul Fish, area director at Bluestone. "The Forge 2 promises to be an interesting scheme using modern methods of construction that will help ensure that noise and disruption to people already living in the area are kept to a minimum."

Bluestone is due to complete the scheme in July 2007. The Forge 2 is the fifth student accommodation scheme that Bluestone will complete for UNITE in the East Midlands region. Previous schemes Bluestone has built for UNITE include a £13.8 million development on St Peters Street in central Nottingham and a £5.3 million scheme in Grange Lane in Leicester's city centre.

An artist's impression of The Forge 2.

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