The first four storeys in the superstructure for 145 studio apartments near Falmouth Docks Station have been built in just three months.
With a gantry crane dominating the docks skyline, the £13m Maritime complex is being built with the French Outinord prefabricated formwork system. Compared with conventional methods, this is estimated to have saved three months on build scheduled for completion in 14 months instead of 18 to 20.
The Outinord system provides technologically advanced steel formworks (moulds for concrete) which also boast cost savings of up to 25 per cent. At Maritime, it is enabling enough concrete to be poured for four apartment shells to be created every two days, compared with at least a week with conventional methods.
The six-storey Maritime shell is scheduled for completion by early spring, with the whole project ready in good time for the start of 2008-09 academic year in September.
Maritime, which went ahead after a public inquiry, is being developed by Falmouth-based Devington Homes. It is the first project for its sister company, newly-formed Arnage Construction, based in Plymouth. Around 40 men are on the site.
Devington managing director Lawrence Butler said: 'Maritime is a world away from the traditional age of student accommodation and the rapid construction programme makes this a doubly notable project.'
Prices start at £85,000.
Western Counties Business News - January 2008
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