Student Residence Village
Nine hundred eighty beds with campus-grade Wi-Fi, study commons and access control, ready for move-in weekend.
- Owner
- Confidential
- Location
- U.S.
- Market
- Student Housing
- Delivery
- Design-build
- Scale
- 980 beds
- Completed
- 2023
Student residences with a campus-grade network, study commons and access control, ready for move-in weekend.
Move-in weekend does not slip. Nearly a thousand students would arrive with laptops, phones, consoles and streaming devices, and expect the network to carry all of it from the first hour. The village also needed access control, study commons and building systems that a housing office could run without a large staff.
The approach.
- 01
Designed for device density
Wireless was planned for several devices per bed, with access points placed by survey rather than by a rule of thumb.
- 02
Repeatable rooms, faster build
Standard bedroom and bathroom layouts let crews work in a rhythm and let the network be installed the same way in every unit.
- 03
Access control end to end
Card and mobile credentials were tested at every entry, suite and amenity door before handover to the housing office.
- 04
A move-in rehearsal
Staff and our team walked the move-in route, tested elevators and loaded the network with test devices the week before students arrived.
The outcome.
“Students give you about an hour before they decide whether the Wi-Fi is good. We made sure it was good in the first minute.”
Project manager, ScottHarry
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