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Midas ready to hand over student village
( Last Updated: 21-12-2007 )
Construction company Midas celebrates the successful completion of an £11 million student accommodation unit with the official handover of the site to University College Falmouth and the University of Exeter at their Tremough Campus on Monday 4th June.
The new student village at the Tremough campus near Penryn comprises over 290 study bedrooms, two staff flats, three laundrettes, an administration building, surfboard lockers and bicycle storage.
The accommodation units are some of the most comfortable and modern student living spaces in the UK with each room including satellite TV, broadband connections, inter-room telephone systems and ergonomically-designed furniture.
With an abundance of surfers around the campus, Midas decided that a competition to design the surf racks would enable the students to create their ideal storage requirements for their surfboards. Student Jonathon Milne came up with the winning design which has now been incorporated. Skinners Brewery will present Jonathon with a crate of beer as his prize.
Midas’s completion of this new accommodation follows the first phase of building finished in August 2004, when 500 ensuite study bedrooms were handed over to the campus. The second phase has been designed and built in the same style as the first, using a low rise ‘village street’ design. Midas has used local finishes such as granite, slate and cedar have been used to blend with the local surroundings.
