Campus masterplan: re-imagining the next generation campus
Building inspiring spaces
A multidimensional campus
From individual to civic impact
Investing in our estate and its environment is vital. Our buildings and spaces support the creation and sharing of knowledge but also the social fabric and wellbeing of everyone – students, staff and visitors.
Our Campus Masterplan is supporting investment to create an inspiring, progressive and sustainable environment in the heart of our vibrant city.
Our mission is to advance knowledge and transform lives. Our campus must support excellence and enhance collaboration to achieve this.
Blending state-of-the-art teaching and research facilities with attractive casual and social spaces the aim is to facilitate creativity and the sharing of ideas and knowledge.
A 10-year plan for a first-class campus
Over the next 10 years, the University will be significantly investing in its campus to ensure a first-class learning, research and working environment that is centred on low carbon design, befitting of a leading university. Through a number of proposed developments, our campus will be designed for teaching, working, living and socialising in the 21st century – nurturing excellence, inspiration and creativity.
It will be a showcase for the interesting and ground-breaking work that the University undertakes. This will include the development of new teaching, learning, research, social and green spaces, as well as the maintenance and refurbishment of our existing space as we seek to enhance our sense of place and the public realm, improve navigability and promote our leading sustainability values and net zero carbon goals.
Fitzroy Building
The University is creating a new home for the
Â鶹´«Ã½ Business School
and work is underway at the heart of our city centre campus.
At a cost of £14.5 million, the transformed Fitzroy Building will include specialist teaching facilities and social learning spaces for students on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, including those in business and management, accounting and finance, and marketing.
When the new Â鶹´«Ã½ Business School opens, it will include an upgraded
Bloomberg Interactive Learning Suite
, where students learn how to analyse financial markets, as well as a Maritime Suite and a Language Lab.
Courses like our marketing programme are consistently ranked among the best in the country, and the Business School attracts significant numbers of international students. Our industry-led programmes equip graduates to be successful, and we know the quality of our teaching and support is already held in high regard. This new home for the School will create an exciting new space in which current and future students can foster the knowledge and enthusiasm that they will need to achieve their ambitions.
Professor Chris Bennewith
Executive Dean
Babbage Building: where engineering meets design
The
new engineering and design facility
provides a state-of-the-art space to inspire creativity, innovation and collaboration from our engineering and design pioneers of tomorrow.
Situated on the western edge of our city centre campus, the landmark facility has transformed the teaching capacity and research capability of the School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics and School of Art, Design and Architecture.
Through exemplary social, research and teaching spaces, it facilitates a new depth of collaboration across related subject areas, facilitating brilliant minds coming together and solving real-world issues.
Housing contemporary specialist equipment and laboratories, it brings engineering, science and the arts together, enabling holistic and creative approaches to problem-solving to address some of the world’s biggest issues, such as climate change and healthcare.
