Lucy Cavendish College
£10,500,000
Main Projects
The David Mackay Award for Engineering and Sustainability – Commendation
Best New Building over £2m – Commendation
The Contractor Award – Commendation awarded to SDC Builders
The 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.
The exterior clay tile and timber with lime mortar brickwork to help reduce the embodied carbon of the materials in the façade.
The design eliminates the use of fossil fuels by utilising Air Source Heat Pump technology to provide space heating and hot water.
