Student Accommodation Buildings
Student Accommodation Buildings
Student Accommodation projects present unique challenges for main contractors.
Student accommodation projects are fast-paced, high-density developments that demand façades designed for safety, durability, and acoustic performance. These schemes often involve tight city-centre sites with strict planning and delivery schedules. For main contractors, the challenge is delivering a building envelope that is safe, compliant, and robust enough to withstand intensive daily use while meeting programme deadlines.
Advanced Glass glazing and façade services provides complete façade packages for student accommodation, reducing project risk through tested systems and coordinated delivery.
Meeting the Needs of Student Accommodation
Fire Safety and Compartmentation
With large numbers of residents in multi-storey buildings, fire safety is critical. We integrate Siderise fire stops, fire-rated glazing, and tested aluminium systems from Technal, Senior Architectural Systems, and Aluprof, ensuring compliance with Approved Document B and fire strategy requirements.
Acoustic Performance
Noise control is vital in student housing, often located near busy roads or city centres. We specify glazing with tested Rw acoustic ratings to align with local planning conditions and provide quiet living spaces.
Thermal Efficiency
Energy performance is key to meeting Approved Document L standards while reducing operational costs for operators and residents. Our glazing systems are designed for low U-values and optimised thermal insulation.
Durability and Security
Student accommodation experiences heavy wear and tear. Our aluminium windows, doors, and curtain walling are robustly engineered, with PAS24:2022-compliant options for added security and longevity.
Programme Delivery
These projects are often on immovable timelines, with completion dates linked to the academic year. Our fully managed façade packages help main contractors achieve handover on time.
Capabilities for Student Accommodation
- Stick curtain walling for circulation areas and social spaces
- Aluminium windows and doors, including fire-rated and PAS24-secure options
- Rainscreen cladding in aluminium, stainless steel, and glass finishes for durability and design impact
- Roof glazing and rooflights for shared social and study areas
- Teleflex and actuator systems for safe, easy operation of high-level windows
- Shopfront glazing for receptions, gyms, and retail units within accommodation blocks
- Siderise fire stops incorporated into the façade package
- End-to-end design, procurement, fabrication, installation, and testing
Student accommodation projects require façades that deliver safety, acoustic comfort, and durability on demanding timelines. Advanced Glass glazing and façade services provides main contractors with tested systems and complete façade packages that reduce risk and ensure reliable delivery.
Planning a Student Accommodation project?
Delivering student accommodation on time and fully compliant is critical. Partner with Advanced Glass Glazing and Façade Services for a complete façade package that reduces risk, ensures programme certainty, and meets every regulatory requirement. Call us on 01455 241844 or click the link below to get started today.
Frequently Asked Questions
Aluminium windows offer durability, low maintenance, excellent thermal efficiency, and modern aesthetics, making them ideal for commercial applications.
Yes, modern aluminium windows feature thermal break technology to improve insulation, achieving low U-values meeting Part L building regulations and often exceeding it.
Options include double or triple glazing, solar control glass, acoustic glass, laminated safety glass, and enhanced security glass, depending on performance needs.
Yes, commercial aluminium windows can be PAS 24 certified and meet Secured by Design standards with multi-point locking systems with reinforced frames.
When properly maintained, aluminium windows can last 30 – 40 years, due to their corrosion resistance and high-quality powder-coated finishes.
Yes, they are available in a wide range of RAL colours, anodised finishes, and different configurations, including casement, tilt-and-turn, and sliding options.
Aluminium windows are designed to withstand extreme weather conditions, with high wind load resistance and water-tightness ratings to ensure long-term performance.
Minimal maintenance is needed – just the occasional cleaning and lubrication of moving parts is required to help ensure smooth operation and longevity.
Yes, aluminium is up to 100% recyclable, and many modern aluminium window systems use recycled materials, supporting sustainable building practices.
Lead times vary depending on customisation and project size, but standard windows typically take 12 – 16 weeks for design, manufacturing and delivery.
Would You Like To Discuss A Particular Project?
If you’re looking for a specialist curtain walling, facade, or cladding contractor to assist you with your upcoming project, ensuring on-time delivery and a smooth process from start to finish, our expert team are on hand and ready to assist you.
