PBSA meets HMO at Torsion Students’ Pine Mill development, with ASK4’s superfast connectivity as standard.
About Torsion
Torsion Developments is a privately owned independent development company, offering a solutions-focused approach to delivering large accommodation-based schemes including student accommodation, build to rent, and retirement living.
Pine Mill is a 4-storey development in Lincoln, comprising of 361 en-suite bed spaces, including seven accessible ground floor en-suite bedrooms, being delivered by Torsion Developments in a joint venture with Harrison Street Real Estate Capital. The townhouses will be arranged in a series of seven, four storey linear blocks, which overlook private and secure landscaped courtyards. The development is due to open to students in September 2021 and will add to their portfolio of over 2,000 beds in the UK to date.
Construction Type
Brick buildings with stud wall partitions between each townhouse, and stud walls dividing rooms within each townhouse.
Torsion's Requirements
- Pervasive ASK4 wireless
- ASK4 wired service
- Speeds up to 250Mb/s
- Inclusive 4Network and unlimited user devices
- Building infrastructure network to run door access control, CCTV and BMS
- Guest network
- Staff network
Project Summary
Torsion Developments enlisted ASK4 to provide Internet services to their new development Pine Mill in Lincoln. Unusually for purpose built student accommodation (PBSA), Pine Mill is a community of 361 individual en-suite rooms within townhouses located around a series of seven landscaped gardens and courtyards. This meant that the connectivity was somewhat more complex than a traditional PBSA scheme.
In a typical student house (HMO), one tenant would have to put their name against a domestic broadband account, typically with a minimum contract length and termination notice period. There may be a set up fee and a waiting period for the service to be connected, and it would require a router being plugged into the main phone line, typically downstairs in a living room. Most crucially, there would be admin over splitting the bill, unfair signal coverage with some bedrooms having a great signal and some very poor as the wireless signal travels from the router through floors, walls and furniture, and no wired access in bedrooms.
ASK4’s fully managed service overcomes these challenges. With a dedicated 1Gb/s fibre line to the site and a wireless service that has been expertly planned with high capacity access points strategically placed around each house, each resident will enjoy excellent stable wireless coverage. The ASK4 service also delivers wired ports in each bedroom, connectivity from move in day, with a quick and easy sign up process to get residents’ devices online, and access to a 24/7/365 multi-lingual UK-based support team for each resident. This will all ensure that the service at Pine Mill will be unparalleled compared to other student houses.
ASK4 Strategic Account Director Fran McEwan said,
“Pine Mill offers students a living experience in the style of a traditional HMO, plus many of the benefits of a typical turn-key PBSA development - including superfast connectivity. With ASK4 in each townhouse, Pine Mill residents won't have to worry about signing up for their own residential Internet service, sharing bandwidth with housemates or adding signal boosters to extend the WiFi coverage to the top floor. They will move into houses serviced by a dedicated fibre line with expertly planned wireless coverage throughout and wired ports in each bedroom. Each housemate will also have their own private and secure wireless network, meaning they can connect all of their wireless-enabled devices together over a virtual network only they can access. Torsion Students plus ASK4 will offer students the best possible connected living experience.”
Tommy Styles, Managing Director of Torsion Students added,
“Whilst Pine Mill offers a unique living experience, this could have caused challenges with connectivity which is common to see within typical HMO accommodation. ASK4 was quick to offer a solution that will provide a seamless service to our residents from the day they move in. A secure, reliable network to support the students with their studies and leisure time is a priority for Torsion Students. We want to ensure this is one thing less thing for them to worry about.”
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