Student accommodation
Arthur Street
Edinburgh
A 112-studio purpose-built student scheme with rooftop heat pumps and PV, delivered to Section 6 compliance.
- Architect
- Flowdesign
- Sector
- Student accommodation
- Location
- 25–29 Arthur Street, Edinburgh, EH6 5DD
- Construction value
- c.£13m
- Scale
- 112 studios, including 6 accessible studios
- Five storeys, ground to fourth floor
- Typical floor-to-floor 2.85 m (ground to first ≈ 3.60 m)
- Rooftop air source heat pumps and PV arrays
Overview
The scheme
The development delivers a purpose-built student accommodation scheme of 112 self-contained studio rooms, including six accessible studios. The site sits in a mixed urban setting among residential blocks, commercial units and transport links.
Studios are arranged over five storeys: 14 at ground floor, 30 at first, 30 at second, 21 at third and 17 at fourth. Ground floor accommodates front-of-house and amenity space alongside back-of-house functions: heating and hot water plant, LV, UPS and substation stores, refuse and recycling, and multiple risers, with cold water and sprinkler plant at basement level.
At roof level the scheme carries air source heat pumps, two smoke extract fan assemblies, a natural smoke shaft, glazed smoke vents and PV arrays. Landscaped circulation, cycle storage and integrated cores complete the arrangement.
Our role
Scope and services
- MEP design
- Section 6 compliance
- Revit modelling
