51 Hills Road
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New commercial accommodation by Gort Scott for Jesus College, Cambridge.
51 Hills Road, for Jesus College, Cambridge, provides high-quality commercial accommodation on a College-owned site in the centre of Cambridge. The building needed to be a lasting asset to the college, making a positive contribution to the surrounding area. It is designed to be flexible, allowing for different internal layouts and sustainable, using high-quality robust materials to create a building with a long lifespan and low-running costs.
Data
- Begun: May 2014
- Completed: Sep 2015
- Floor area: 780m2
- Sectors: Education, Residential
- Total cost: £2.3M
- Procurement: Design and Build
- CO2 Emissions: 42.6kg/m2/year
- Address: 51 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 1LA, United Kingdom
Tags 
Cambridge, Courtyard, Hills Road, Jesus College, Skylight, Student accommodation, Sustainability
Materials
Brick, Concrete, Concrete walls, Glulam beams, Grey brick, In-situ concrete, Timber
Professional Team
- Architect: Gort Scott
- Project architect: Gort Scott
- Client: Jesus College, Cambridge
- Landscape architect: JCLA
- Structural engineer : Solution Consulting Engineers
- M&E consultant: Max Fordham
- Cost consultant/Quantity Surveyor: Quantem consulting
- Low-carbon consultant: Orchard Estate
- Chief clerk of works: Andrew Merrick
- Project manager: Bidwells
- Approved building inspector : MLM
- Main contractor: Ashe Construction
- CAD software used: Vectorworks
