Student accommodation
Student accommodation glazing
Windows and facade glazing for purpose built student accommodation, worked to a handover date that cannot move.
Scope of works
The students arrive in September whether the building is ready or not.
Every other sector can slip a fortnight. Student accommodation cannot. The academic year fixes the handover date before the drawings are finished, and a scheme that misses it is not late, it is empty for a year.
Most of this work is conversion: a commercial building given a new facade and a new use, or an operator upgrading a block in the weeks between academic years. Either way the glazing is one detail repeated across every room, on a building whose openings were never meant to match.
We supply and install the windows, the bays and the facade glazing that goes with them, working to the main contractor's programme. Our most recent scheme of this type was Headrow Court in Leeds.
Specification
Student accommodation glazing, to your specification.
- Restricted opening
- Restrictors fitted at height as standard, to the limit your risk assessment sets.
- Acoustic glass
- Specified where the elevation faces a road, a bar or a delivery yard.
- Handover
- Sequenced so the building is watertight before the internal trades need it.
- Acoustic performance
- Acoustic glass specified to the level the project requires.
- Fire rating
- Fire-rated glazing supplied to the rating the specification calls for.
Every figure published here is one we can stand behind. Ask us for anything the table does not cover and we will send it to you in writing.
Scope
What we take on across a student scheme.
Studio windows
One window per room, repeated hundreds of times, so the detail that works has to work everywhere.
Facade replacement
New window lines across buildings that were never designed to match each other.
Bays and feature glazing
Projecting bays and street-facing glazing, where the building gets its identity.
Amenity spaces
Reception, study and dining glazing, which is what the operator photographs.
The immovable date
The programme is set by the academic year, not by the trades.
On a conversion the glazing usually sits on the critical path, because nothing inside can be finished until the building is watertight. We would rather agree a realistic sequence early and hold it than promise the whole facade and hand back late in the one sector where late has no recovery.
- Sequenced against handover
- Watertight before internal trades
- Lifts and access booked ahead
Lived in, not worked in
An office window and a bedroom window are not the same brief.
A converted office is suddenly occupied at night, at weekends and through winter, by people who sleep next to the glass. That changes what the window has to do: safe opening at height, street noise kept down, and heat held in a building that is now warm around the clock rather than nine to five.
- Restricted opening at height
- City centre noise
- Heat held around the clock
Project proof
Recent student accommodation glazing projects.
Common settings
Schemes this work suits.
Survey, access and the existing building decide the final route. These are the settings this work usually goes into.
Related commercial services
Work that usually comes with student accommodation glazing.
Common questions
Student accommodation glazing, asked and answered.
Can you work to a fixed handover date?
Yes. The academic year fixes the date before the drawings are finished, so the glazing is sequenced so the building is watertight before the internal trades need it, working to the main contractor's programme.
Do you fit restrictors at height?
Restrictors are fitted at height as standard, to the limit your risk assessment sets.
What do you specify on a city centre elevation?
Acoustic glass to the level the project requires, specified where the elevation faces a road, a bar or a delivery yard, with fire-rated glazing supplied to the rating the specification calls for.
Have you delivered a scheme like this?
Yes. Our most recent scheme of this type was Headrow Court in Leeds.
What we can put on a pre-qualification questionnaire.
- Constructionline Gold Pre-qualified for public and private sector tendering.
- SSIP accredited Health and safety assessed under the Safety Schemes in Procurement umbrella.
- DBS-checked operatives For schools, care settings and any site where the check is a condition of access.
Commercial enquiry
Send us the student accommodation glazing brief.
Drawings, a window schedule, elevations or site photographs are all useful, and none of them is required. A postcode and a description of the building is enough to get a sensible answer back.
- Phone lines are open 24/7.
- The office team picks up drawings and schedules during working hours.
- commercial@fensterglazing.com