Residential

Westfield Avenue, Edinburgh
Dunedin Canmore Housing Association
£21m

This project is a new build development comprising 193 individual residential apartments and 8 commercial/retail units spread across 3 separate blocks on a Brownfield site in the west side of Edinburgh. The project is a Joint Venture between Dunedin Canmore Housing Association and Hart Builders (Edinburgh) Ltd.

TKC were approached by Hart Builders Ltd in 2009 to provide the M&E consultancy, design and various levels of assistance to deliver the first phase of a mixed use Masterplan for the Westfield site. The project brings a holistic approach to the critical need for affordable, sustainable housing and small business space in central Edinburgh, with the primary aim to transform a vacant Brownfield site by the Water of Leith into a vibrant, mixed use, mixed tenure, neighbourhood.

This development will benefit from a new centralised “Energy Centre” that TKC have designed specifically for this project which includes a central combined heat and power (CHP) system for the whole development. We also undertook the design of a “private” electricity network, again to serve the entire development. This project is currentl yon site and due for completion in 2011.

This project consists of the conversion of adjacent 5 storey Georgian townhouses, that were previously configured and used as commercial office accommodation, back into high level luxury residential accommodation.

One townhouse will be completely refurbished and restored as a single residential townhouse, whereas the adjacent building will be sub divided into individual apartment, a 2 level duplex and new mews accommodation also created to a gap site at the rear of the development.

TKC have been appointed under a full duties commission to carry out the full design of all mechanical and electrical systems which includes specialist lighting, all power, telephony, digital TV provision, audio/visual interfacing, gas, heating, ventilation and all high usage water services.

We were also required to provide detailed technical input to the fire strategy for the development.

This project is due to complete in 2011.