Freemens Common Village was nominated in two categories at the Leicestershire ProCon Awards 2023 held at Leicester’s City’s King Power Stadium on 9th November and won in both categories:
• Best Large Non-Residential Scheme awarded to The Sir Bob Burgess Teaching and Learning Building
• Best Large Residential Scheme awarded to the Freemens Common Village Development

The ProCon Leicestershire Awards are the county’s biggest celebration of the built environment and the people who develop, design and construct winning developments in Leicestershire and Rutland.

Freemen’s Common Village LLP (FCV LLP) was established to construct and operate student accommodation and to construct a Teaching & Learning Centre and a new multi-storey car park incorporating social spaces and to carry out the refurbishment and extension of the Grade 11 listed Freemen’s Cottages. FCV LLP’s main operation is the provision of living accommodation and academic facilities for students of the University of Leicester.

The project provides:
• 1,164 student units across seven buildings on the two sites, five on the Freemans Common Site and two on the Nixon Court Site.
• A Teaching & Learning building providing 7,975m² of academic teaching & learning space
• 724m² of student social space
• An associated multi-storey car park providing 550 spaces and 5 accessible spaces

EMS have been providing the Construction Management, General Management Operational Management and Financial Management Services on the project since August 2019. The final Phase of Construction achieved Practical Completion on 16th September 2022. This is a significant achievement and testament to all the collective efforts of the teams and our partners on the project to date: The Client is The University of Leicester and the Contractor is Equans Regeneration.