Lucy Cavendish College
£10,500,000
Main Projects
CFCI ‘David Mackay Award for Engineering and Sustainability’ – Commendation
CFCI ‘Best New Building over £2m’ – Commendation
CFCI ‘The Contractor Award’ – Commendation awarded to SDC Builders
Excellence in Planning for Communities (RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence) – 2023 Winner
Higher Education Project Award - Architect's Journal awards 2023
Largest Passivhaus student residential building in Cambridge.
Provides 72 eco-friendly and modern ensuite bedrooms as well as co-accessible and fully accessible rooms.
A café and bar area, and informal learning and collaboration spaces were also provided.
Constructed using Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) frame with low embodied carbon cement replacements in the concrete elements.
Eliminates the use of fossil fuels by utilising Air Source Heat Pump technology to provide space heating and hot water.
