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11/01/2018
New £31m Education Hub Built At Birmingham City University
A new £31 million education hub has been built at Birmingham City University.
The Curzon B teaching and learning space facility was designed by Associated Architects and delivered by Willmott Dixon.
The six-storey canalside development comprises 100,000 sq ft of additional modern facilities for the University's existing City Centre Campus courses. As well as featuring elevated external amenity space, it forms part of an extension to the £63m Curzon building built by Willmott Dixon in 2015.
Other features include additional teaching and learning space for 3,000 students and staff across more than 650 rooms, a dedicated IT suite for students as well as the 'The Hive' lecture theatre, which features raked, group activity seating, integrated technology and excellent sight lines.
The building is also now home to the University's Centre of Academic Success, the New Technology Institute (NTI) and its Students' Union.
As part of the project, 3,000 students from the University's Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment gained real-life experience of working across the construction industry by putting the theory learned in the classroom into practice. The developers offered 10 paid placements throughout the build, while three graduates are now employed full time by Willmott Dixon in the Birmingham region.
Overall, the project forms part of the University's £260m investment into new and advanced facilities.
The building was officially opened by Birmingham City University's Vice-Chancellor, Professor Philip Plowden on Wednesday, 10 January.
Professor Plowden said: "From individual study pods to meeting rooms, we hope that students will really benefit from these facilities that will help them achieve success in their studies. We are committed to providing the best possible learning experience for all our students and this extension will play a key part for that aim.
"With work now commencing on HS2, we are delighted to be further contributing to the renaissance of Birmingham's Eastside area with the latest expansion of our City Centre Campus – already a major landmark for hundreds of thousands of people arriving at Birmingham New Street by train every day."
(LM)
The Curzon B teaching and learning space facility was designed by Associated Architects and delivered by Willmott Dixon.
The six-storey canalside development comprises 100,000 sq ft of additional modern facilities for the University's existing City Centre Campus courses. As well as featuring elevated external amenity space, it forms part of an extension to the £63m Curzon building built by Willmott Dixon in 2015.
Other features include additional teaching and learning space for 3,000 students and staff across more than 650 rooms, a dedicated IT suite for students as well as the 'The Hive' lecture theatre, which features raked, group activity seating, integrated technology and excellent sight lines.
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The building is also now home to the University's Centre of Academic Success, the New Technology Institute (NTI) and its Students' Union.
As part of the project, 3,000 students from the University's Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment gained real-life experience of working across the construction industry by putting the theory learned in the classroom into practice. The developers offered 10 paid placements throughout the build, while three graduates are now employed full time by Willmott Dixon in the Birmingham region.
Overall, the project forms part of the University's £260m investment into new and advanced facilities.
The building was officially opened by Birmingham City University's Vice-Chancellor, Professor Philip Plowden on Wednesday, 10 January.
Professor Plowden said: "From individual study pods to meeting rooms, we hope that students will really benefit from these facilities that will help them achieve success in their studies. We are committed to providing the best possible learning experience for all our students and this extension will play a key part for that aim.
"With work now commencing on HS2, we are delighted to be further contributing to the renaissance of Birmingham's Eastside area with the latest expansion of our City Centre Campus – already a major landmark for hundreds of thousands of people arriving at Birmingham New Street by train every day."
(LM)
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