Scheme is for Emmanuel College

Stanton Williams has been given the thumbs-up for new communal space for Emmanuel College in Cambridge.

The scheme for one of the university鈥檚 largest colleges involves 7,800 sq m of new communal and social space as well as accommodation and teaching facilities.

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A new social hub will be built as part of the revamp

It will include 50 new student bedrooms and refurbishing the grade II-listed Furness Lodge to upgrade social facilities including music practice rooms and a college bar.

Others working on the scheme include M&E engineer Skelly & Couch, project manager Bidwells, QS Faithful + Gould and landscape architect Bradley-Hole Schoenaich.

The college said the work will be largest undertaken since it completed the North Court building in 1914.