Frederick Street Student Housing

FSS – Exterior Perspective 1

• Location – Pretoria West, Gauteng
• Tertiary institution – TUT Pretoria Campus
• Distance from TUT – 1.5 km
• 528 beds
  

About 1.5km from the Tshwane University of Technology’s Pretoria campus is the 528-student bed Frederick Street Student Accommodation. This three storey walk up is made up of three building blocks joined together to allow students to move easily between blocks. Rooms are set up in apartment like units that foster the family unit environment that is characteristic of all Adowa properties. Each unit constitutes of a combination of single & double room, rnaging from 8 – 10 students per apartment. The kitchen is fully equipped with a refrigerator, a microwave and a four plate electric stove. Students are given individual lockers for cupboard space, allowing for secure storage.

Each bedroom has sufficient cupboard space for each student, a desk and chair for studying and an electric wall heater. Double rooms have a middle partition that gives each student privacy without isolating the roommates from each other.

The building is Edge certified by the Green Building Council and has implemented different systems that ensure energy efficiency and environmental friendliness, including the use of heat pumps for water heating.

Phase 1 of the building, with 352 student beds, is scheduled to come online in the 2023 academic year, with Phase 2 expected to be ready for occupation for the 2023/2024 academic year.