Mr. Ciaran McCaffrey:

On the standardisation question, it is a really good one. As part of the study, we looked to various different countries that would probably be seen as being at the forefront of student accommodation development. We tasked the people we were working with to look at the UK, which would be considered a mature market, France, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands and Canada. Across those countries, we looked at various different student accommodation locations of prominent universities. We tried to learn from those and incorporate the various different bits of good practice and stuff that would benefit our published standardised design. There are different culture experiences with student accommodation. In the US, dorms are pretty standard.

On the technological sector student accommodation programme, a piece of work ongoing at the minute is looking at the different delivery models to see whether there are any innovative ways in which student accommodation is delivered that we can learn and benefit from for the efficiency of the delivery of student accommodation.