Key details
| Project Scope: | Redevelopment of existing site to create 70 low-carbon council homes, built to Passivhaus standards. |
| Client: | Cambridge City Council |
| Architect: | Feilden+Mawson |
| Contractor: | Hill Group |
Key features
- Existing houses were demolished and the new apartments were built in three blocks between three and four storeys high.
- Load bearing masonry.
- Precast concrete planks for floors and roofs.
- Due to poor ground conditions, one of the apartment blocks was piled with the other blocks being traditional foundations.
- Drainage uses a cellular attenuation storage tank with a restricted discharge into the existing surface water sewer.
