Lissadel Street, Salford.
364-apartment student scheme
over two blocks.
An eight-storey purpose-built student accommodation scheme on the former Cumberland House site, taking design cues from the condemned mill it replaces. A short walk from X1 Cheltenham Place.
A new scheme
on a working
industrial edge.
[Directors to rewrite naturally. Lissadel Street replaces the former Cumberland House mill and factory with 364 student apartments across two blocks. Eight storeys, curved brick facade referencing the building it replaces, designed by Tim Groom Architects for X1 Developments.]
[The engineering brief — the site sits next to an active waste recycling centre, and the odour impact assessment requires a mechanical ventilation strategy capable of operating with windows closed for large parts of the day and night. Designing residential air quality and thermal comfort around that constraint shaped the entire mechanical scheme.]
[Continuation — eight storeys puts this firmly within the Building Safety Act regime as a Higher-Risk Building. Prana led the MEP design through Stage 4 and is now supporting the project team through BSA Gateway 2 approval. A continuation of Prana's existing Bridgestone / X1 relationship from Cheltenham Place.]
Designing for
closed windows.
[Directors to rewrite naturally. The Lissadel Street brief defaulted the mechanical strategy: an odour-mitigation ventilation system capable of carrying full residential air quality with the windows shut.]
Mechanical
[Mechanical ventilation strategy designed around the closed-window odour-mitigation requirement. Heat recovery, attenuation, fresh-air rates.]
Electrical
[LV distribution across 364 bedrooms, sub-metering, lighting strategy, emergency systems.]
Public Health
[Drainage and water services across an eight-storey PBSA block, designed for high turnover and predictable peak loads.]
BSA
[Stage 4 MEP design issued. Currently supporting the project team through BSA Gateway 2 as a Higher-Risk Building. Sub-recycling-centre odour mitigation, life-safety strategy, HRB compliance evidence pack.]
Stage 4 complete.
BSA approval next.
[Directors to rewrite naturally. MEP design issued to Stage 4. Currently working with Bridgestone and the wider project team through BSA Gateway 2 — the new HRB approval route under the Building Safety Act.]