CAMBRIAN WHARF

11 Brindley Drive, Birmingham, B1 2NB

View the site map HERE.

 

PROJECT TEAM:

Client: University College Birmingham

Architects: Associated Architects, Plincke

Principal Designer: Associated Architects

Project Manager, Quantity Surveyor: MGAC

Civil & Structural Engineer: Couch Consulting Engineers

MEP, BREEAM, Acoustics: CPW

Building Control: Acivico

Ecology: Ridgeway

Fire/ Wind Engineer: Jensen Hughes/ Windtech

Transport: mode

Arboriculture: Thomson Environmental

Air Quality, Flood Risk: BWB Consulting

Archeology: University of Leicester

Planning Consultant: Turley

Planning Application Number: 2023/06855/PA

 

CAMBRIAN WHARF

 

Cambrian Wharf is an inclusive new student community of 1,205 bed spaces at the heart of University College Birmingham’s (UCB) city campus.

UCB’s desire is to consolidate its accommodation offer here, transforming an underutilised 1970s site with a modern, safe, and inspiring new environment at a key gateway site.

The result: 1,205-bed spaces (958 en-suites, 10 DDA en-suites, 234 studios, and 3 DDA studios; 13-33.8 sqm) across two new red/grey terracotta style buildings of 15 and 35 storeys.

There will be active outward-facing student uses at street level, which will see a gymnasium, dance studio, and a lounge. This will be complemented by a range of internal and external amenity spaces, including:

• A linear park, providing a pleasant space to rest and socialise;
• The Plaza, a new arrival space;
• The Courtyard, a secure first-floor terrace;
• The Street, between both blocks, provides secure space with potential for events/markets;
• Top-floor social rooms affording views across the city;
• and Brindley Drive, which will be opened up with new planting & resurfaced.

There will also be two accessible parking spaces, spaces for drop-offs, and 300 cycle spaces.

EXISTING

Cambrian Wharf, images from University College Birmingham & Associated Architects

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