Faculty Estate Development

Last updated: 23 May 2012

New Engineering Building Information Sessions

The Faculty of Engineering is undertaking an ambitious project to expand and improve its estate.

The first phase will include the creation of the Faculty Graduate School and a major refurbishment programme for the St Georges Campus (the quadrangle bounded by Mappin Street, Portobello Street, Newcastle Street and Broad Lane).

There are further plans to build a new engineering building, predominantly for undergraduate teaching, on the Jessop site which are in the early stages and subject to planning permission.

This programme will help us to accommodate our growth and also to dramatically improve the current condition of our working environment. This isn’t about painting the odd room, but about a major refurbishment programme over 6 years that will invest more than £40 million in refurbishing and remodelling large sections of our estate (approximately 13,000m2 in total).

Necessarily there will be some disruption during building work, but the University will strive both to minimise this and plan it around the core business of delivering teaching and research. Some movement of staff will be necessary to enable the refurbishment, but it is hoped that this short-term disruption will be a price worth paying for the improvement in your working environment.

These web pages will help to keep you up to date with the progress and how it might affect you.