UCL ESTATES
TR A N S FOR MING UCL 2014–2024
We are transforming our spaces into innovative buildings and world-class facilities – empowering our staff and students to discover more about our world and solve global problems.
FOSTERING TOMORROW’S ENTREPRENEURS FROM THE TOP OF AN ICONIC BUSINESS BUILDING
TEACHER TRAINING IN A SPACE C E L E B R AT I N G B O T H B R I T I S H HERITAGE AND CHINESE CULTURE
W O R LD - C LAS S LAB S T H AT PR O V ID E A H O M E F O R T H E U K DEMENTIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE
A P U R P O S E - B U I LT NEUR OSCIENCE FACIL ITY INSPIR ED B Y THE B R AIN’S R E A C T I O N T O S PA C E AND STRUCTURE
MODERNISING A GRADE II LISTED BUILDING FOR W O R LD - C LAS S LE G AL LE AR N IN G
A S PE C TAC U LAR HOME FOR THE NEXT G E N E R AT I O N O F LEADING ARCHITECTS AND DESIGNERS
A HOME FOR UCL AND THE MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL TO WORK TOGETHER TO UNDER STAND THE CAUSES OF DEMENTIA
T H E O N LY ‘W E S T E N D ’ T H E AT R E AT A U K U N IV E R S IT Y
AN AWAR D - W IN N IN G O U T D O O R S PAC E F O R S T U D Y, R E LAX AT IO N AN D S O C IALIS IN G
ONE CENTR AL CAMPUS B UIL DING, W ITH OVER 1 , 0 0 0 S PA C E S F O R STUDENTS TO STUDY
SUPPORTING COLLABORATION ACROSS DISCIPLINES, F R O M ENGINEERING TO ARCHITECTURE
N E W T E AC H IN G S PAC E S W IT H A F O C U S O N N AT U R A L M AT E R IALS T O AS S IS T S T U D E N T W E LLB E IN G
CL INICIANS, ENGINEER S AND COMPUTER SCIENTISTS W OR K ING TOGETHER UNDER ONE R OOF
A T E M PO R ARY T E AC H IN G S PAC E ART IS T IC ALLY E N V E LO PE D IN U C L’S R IC H H IS T O RY
R E S T O R IN G A B U ILD IN G ’S ORIGINAL CHARACTER TO C R E AT E A D IS T IN C T IV E D IN IN G H U B
Deputy Director of Estates & Director of Estates Development
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“ UCL is midway through ‘Transforming UCL’, an extensive 10-year building and refurbishment programme that began in 2014. The first five years have led to a number of successfully completed projects. Many of these were completed within budget, enabling the funding of new and emerging projects. We are looking forward to five more years of further transformation.” A STOR C OLLE G E
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STUD EN T CE NT RE ONE CENTRAL CAMPUS BUILDING, WITH OVER ONE THOUSAND PLACES TO STUDY
The award-winning Student Centre secures UCL’s place as a world-leading university by giving students a collaborative space where they can work, discover and learn for generations to come. DEDICATED STUDENT S PACE
We’ve significantly improved the student experience by designing a building just for them. We consulted with the student community to create a space that gives them what they need in the way they need it. The new building is open round the clock and provides an endless choice of study spaces. A glass atrium lets in light and lifts ensure the entire building is accessible and forms a new east–west route across the campus. Students can choose from 1,000+ study spaces, of which 647 can be monitored by an app so they can see which ones are free. And we created bookable study cabins — small collaboration rooms with desks, chairs and AV equipment.
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–E IGHT FLOORS OF STUDY SPACE, OPEN 24 HOURS A DAY – 1,000+ STUDY SPACES – BOOKABLE STUDY CABINS
– QUIET CONTEMPLATION ROOM – CAFÉ – STUDENT ENQUIRIES CENTRE
–L ANDSCAPING, ROOF TERRACE AND PUBLIC SPACE
–A RTWORKS BY UCL SLADE SCHOOL OF ART ALUMNI AND STAFF
– S TUDENT WELLBEING CENTRE
– BREEAM ‘OUTSTANDING’ RATING
SPECIALLY COMMISSIONED ARTWORKS
The Student Centre is home to two works of contemporary art. ‘Untitled (Slade Pinboard)’, is a sculpture by Turner Prize-winning artist Rachel Whiteread, who is a UCL Slade School of Fine Art alumna. ‘HERE NOT HERE’ is a digital installation that reveals the diversity of the university’s staff and students, by Jon Thomson, Professor of Fine Art at the Slade, and artist and lecturer Alison Craighead. A HOME ON CAMPUS
The Centre belongs entirely to students and is their ‘home on campus’ for studying individually or in groups, speaking to the UCL enquiries team or dropping in to the Student Wellbeing Centre for disability, mental health and wellbeing support. Students can also use the adjacent Japanese Garden, which features new landscaping, planting and seating to create a tranquil outdoor space. The Centre has become a popular meeting and study space, both day and night, and forms part of a new accessible route through UCL’s Bloomsbury campus, linking Gordon Street and Gower Street. SUSTAINABLE BY DESIGN
The building has been designed as a flagship for sustainability, with features including solar panels, efficient sanitary fittings that halve water consumption and windows that open automatically for natural ventilation.
“The Student Centre has really strengthened the sense of community at UCL, the sense of belonging to something great.” IGNAZIO BACILE DI CASTIGLIONE Year 3 Philosophy, Politics and Economics student
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BLOOMSBURY T H E AT R E THE ONLY ‘WEST END’ THEATRE AT A UK UNIVERSITY
The Bloomsbury Theatre refurbishment gives students hands-on training in a modern working theatre with facilities that exceed industry standards – preparing them for life after graduation. BRINGING A MUCH-LOVED THEATRE INTO THE 21ST CENTURY
The Bloomsbury Theatre showcases the best of theatre, music, dance and comedy with 12 weeks a year dedicated to student productions. We carried out an extensive restoration programme to enable students to learn in a working theatre while leaving a legacy that performers, stage staff and the public can enjoy for years to come. ‘PLUG AND PLAY’ TECH
We made huge advancements to the theatre’s tech by installing customisable lighting, specialist stage electrics and replacing the lifts that allow the stage to be extended or retracted for performances. The new tech makes it easier and faster for production companies to customise the stage, audio and lighting for performances by enabling them to simply ‘plug and play’. Elsewhere, we have transformed the experience for theatregoers with luxurious seating, new cooling and ventilation and modern acoustics. Additionally, we have reinstated the historic paint-frame: the canvas used by artists to create backdrops and scenery.
“After the refurbishment we could put on some absolutely fantastic shows and it means that all the students have access to such good facilities.” SURIYAH RASHID Final year student, School of European Languages, Culture and Society
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– 541 LUXURIOUS SEATS – IMPROVED ACOUSTICS – SEMI-SPRUNG STAGE FLOORING –S TEP-FREE STAGE AND ACCESSIBLE SEATING AND FACILITIES – NEW AIR CONDITIONING
–C USTOMISABLE STAGE LIGHTING AND AV – 232KM OF CABLING INSTALLED – IMPROVED SAFETY –N EW SERVICE LIFT, ENABLING LARGE SET PIECES TO BE BROUGHT IN
ACCESSIBILITY FRONT AND BACK OF HOUSE
The auditorium improvements include new wheelchair spaces and chairs with removable arms so people can easily transfer to and from their wheelchair. We’ve created accessible welfare facilities for performers, staff, students and visitors, while a new lift and a special dressing area enables actors in wheelchairs to perform on stage. BRINGING LONDON IN
The new theatre is designed to ‘bring London in’, not only as an audience but as users of the theatre and studio spaces, with opportunities for collaboration between academics, artists, performers, directors and companies inside and outside UCL’s community.
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22 GORDON ST RE E T A NEW HOME FOR THE BARTLETT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE THAT PROVIDES ITS STUDENTS WITH INSPIRING PERSPECTIVES OF THE CITY
The refurbishment has doubled the amount of teaching and research space, creating a spectacular home for the world’s top place to study architecture. SAME BUILDING, DOUBLE THE SPACE
The refurbishment of 22 Gordon Street was the first major Transforming UCL project to be completed. To undertake the redevelopment, we moved the Bartlett School of Architecture into a large nearby warehouse for three years. The temporary use of this huge, open space heavily influenced the design of the newly-developed space at 22 Gordon Street. Through redeveloping the former Wates House, we were able to double the amount of space available while working within the building’s existing structure. This enabled the Bartlett to extend its programmes, including the creation of a new MEng in Engineering and Architectural Design, which is delivered jointly with UCL Engineering. Remodelling the interior, we created an enhanced foyer and café, a ground floor exhibition and event space, brand new workshops and a mix of teaching and research areas, including seminar rooms, studios, crit spaces, computer clusters and academic and admin offices. TOP TO BOTTOM LEARNING
The layout was designed to incorporate inspirational views from key positions within the building and informs the school’s teaching approach. Students begin studying at the top of the building in a studio that gives them a ‘penthouse’ view, then each year they move down through the floors as they progress towards graduation. Breakout spaces on each level of the stairwell encourage interaction and collaboration among students from all years. STUDENT SHOWCASES
The new facilities are highly praised by students and academic staff, particularly the ground floor event space, which has full height windows that invite passers-by to peek in and see the students’ work on display during exhibitions. UCL Bartlett School of Architecture is consistently ranked among the top architecture schools worldwide and has around 1,000 students and 134 staff. Providing it with a high quality, low-energy environment for teaching, learning and research, has helped the school to secure first place in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2019.
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–L ARGE EXHIBITION SPACE, VIEWABLE FROM OUTSIDE
–C OMPUTER CLUSTERS AND ACADEMIC AND ADMIN OFFICES
–O PEN STAIRWELL WITH BREAKOUT AREAS ON EACH FLOOR – S EMINAR ROOMS, STUDIOS AND CRIT SPACES
“Having a visible staircase makes such a difference compared with the old building. And the new open studio spaces have radically increased opportunities for different year groups to mix.” ALAN PENN Professor in Architectural and Urban Computing Dean of the Faculty of the Built Environment
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IO E C ON FU C I U S INSTITU TE FOR SCHOOL S
– T WO SEMINAR ROOMS
ADVANCED TEACHER TRAINING IN A SPACE THAT C E L E B R AT E S B O T H B R I T I S H H E R I TA G E A N D CHINESE CULTURE
–F REESTANDING FURNITURE SO ROOMS CAN BE ADAPTED FOR DIFFERENT USES
–A BOARD ROOM THAT DOUBLES AS TEACHING SPACE – NEW RECEPTION – NEW LIBRARY
The IOE Confucius Institute for Schools supports schools by training teachers in Mandarin Chinese language teaching skills. We worked closely with them to refurbish a listed Bloomsbury townhouse into a modern space that meets their teaching needs. Each room has been thoughtfully designed, combining interiors chosen to reflect Chinese culture while creating a technologically contemporary work environment.
SAIN SBU RY W ELLCOME C E N T RE
–1 4,000 SQUARE METRES OF WET AND DRY LAB SPACE
A PURPOSE-BUILT NEUROSCIENCE FACILITY INSPIRE D BY THE BRAIN’S REACTION TO SPACE AND STRUCTURE
– H IGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING FACILITIES
The award-winning Sainsbury Wellcome Centre brings together world-leading scientists to investigate how neural circuits influence behaviour, including perception, memory, expectation, cognition, decisions and action. The new facility is one of the first buildings in the world designed using research into how the spaces in which we live and work affect our moods and the ways we behave.
–A DVANCED PROTOTYPING AND FABRICATION LABS
– BRASSERIE AND ROOF GARDEN
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INTERIM DEM E NT I A RESEARC H I N STITUTE
– THREE SCIENCE WINGS
WORLD-CLASS LABS THAT PROVIDED A NEW HOME FOR THE UK DEMENTIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE
–£ 4 MILLION INVESTMENT FROM THE MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
– 15 RESEARCH LABS – SPACE FOR 90 RESEARCHERS
The UK Dementia Research Institute (DRI) has six research centres across the country. Its operational headquarters and research activity at UCL is located in a new interim hub in our Cruciform building, which will move to a permanent home once it’s completed (see pages 36 — 37). We built high-quality, specialised labs and clinical facilities for its cutting-edge scientific equipment, which the DRI uses to advance treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, including Huntington’s, Alzheimer’s and dementia.
UCL AT H ERE E AS T A SPACE SUPPORTING COLLABORATION ACROSS A DIVERSE RANGE OF DISCIPLINES, FROM ENGINEERING TO ARCHITECTURE
A new technology and creative facility that brings together the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment and the Faculty of Engineering Science. We designed a mix of teaching, learning and lab spaces to support their architects, engineers, computer scientists, mathematicians and anthropologists in their interdisciplinary research, teaching and training.
– 330-SEAT AUDITORIUM –T WO 40-SEAT HARVARD-STYLE LECTURE THEATRES –T EACHING LAB FOR UP TO 60 PEOPLE – H IGH-PERFORMANCE ENVIRONMENTAL CHAMBERS –D ARK ROOM AND DAYLIGHT SIMULATION DOME – LARGE-SCALE TESTING RIGS –R OBOTICS AND ADVANCED PROTOTYPING LAB
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1–19 TOR RI NGTON P LA CE NEW TEACHING SPACES WITH A FOCUS ON NATURAL MATERIALS TO ASSIST STUDENT WELLBEING
New teaching and learning spaces facilitate student-led research, collaboration and skills development and provide valuable study space at crucial times of the year. FLEXIBLE SPACE FOR ALL STUDENTS
We refurbished the ground and lower ground floors of 1–19 Torrington Place to create a mix of lecture theatres and classrooms that are complemented by open areas where students can relax, study and work together between classes. The teaching facilities are available to all UCL departments and form the largest amount of centrally bookable, shared teaching space on the Bloomsbury campus. The bright, modern classrooms are fitted with high-quality audio-visual equipment and new furniture with laptop integration. The spaces can be reconfigured to support different types of teaching, including group project work and problem-based learning. ACCESSIBLE AND WELCOMING
The east and west entrances at the front of the building are now fully accessible and there’s disabled parking spaces to the rear of the building. The new lifts and wider doorways better serve wheelchair users. Students, lecturers and staff now have gender neutral toilets and water fountains have been installed on all floors. The internal spaces were designed with student wellbeing in mind and use natural materials and colours, with an emphasis on wooden panels, to create a pleasant space. And the use of high-contrast design creates differentiation across areas of the building and aids navigation through the corridors.
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–L OBBY WITH COMMUNAL TABLES AND BOOTHS –S EVEN RECONFIGURABLE CLASSROOMS –T ECHNOLOGY ENHANCED ACTIVE LEARNING ( TEAL ) ROOM FOR COLLABORATIVE LEARNING
–T HREE 120-SEAT LECTURE THEATRES, WITH WHEELCHAIR SPACES –L APTOP TABLES AND SEATING WITH INTEGRATED POWER –M ULTIFUNCTION TEACHING ROOM FOR 16 PEOPLE
– S OFT RECESSED SEATING OUTSIDE TEACHING ROOMS – L IFT AND ACCESSIBLE ENTRANCES AND TOILETS – W ATER FOUNTAINS ON ALL FLOORS
“The combination of versatile classrooms, integrated technology, break-out spaces and full accessibility means it will be a great place for our students to learn and create knowledge.” SARAH AL-ARIDE Education Officer, Students’ Union 2017/18
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BENTHAM HOU S E A MODERNISED GRADE II LISTED HOME FOR A RADICAL COMMUNITY OF STUDENTS, RESEARCHERS AND ACADEMICS
“Some of my best memories of my time studying at UCL are in the lecture theatres in Bentham House, and their amazing atmosphere for learning.” ROBERTO BAUMGARTEN KUSTER UCL Laws alumnus
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– 3 STATE-OF-THE-ART LECTURE THEATRES
– L ARGE RECEPTION, LINKING TO THE SOCIAL HUB AND CAFÉ
– 12 TUTORIAL ROOMS
– I MPROVED ACCESS FOR WHEELCHAIR USERS
–S PECIALIST STUDY SUITE FOR GRADUATE RESEARCH STUDENTS
–S TUDENT AND STAFF COMMON ROOMS
–M OOT COURT: MOCK COURTROOM WHERE STUDENTS DEVELOP SKILLS – 7 SEMINAR ROOMS – O FFICES, MEETING SPACES AND COMPUTER CLUSTER ROOM
The redevelopment of Bentham House encourages interaction between academics and students, creating an amazing community for world-class legal learning. MARRYING THE OLD WITH THE NEW
To undertake the redevelopment of the Grade II listed Bentham House and substantially increase the size of the space available to the Faculty of Laws, we acquired the freehold interest in an adjacent building on the site (Hillel House). We then created new accessible connections between the two buildings and transformed the newly combined building into a contemporary teaching and learning space that reflects the faculty’s standing as a leader in legal education, while showcasing the building’s grand architecture. We created a building that feels like a contemporary legal office rather than a traditional academic space. The welcoming open spaces are designed to bring the entire community together by providing opportunities for academics and students to interact with each other, strike up conversations and share ideas. Bentham House’s majestic Moot Court provides a mock courtroom space that allows students to take part in ‘mooting competitions’ — simulated trials where they develop the essential skills they’ll need after graduation. Elsewhere, the rejuvenated teaching spaces support students, with lecture theatres that can accommodate up to 100 people and classrooms for collaborative working in smaller groups. The new social hub at the heart of the building features a café, common room and a lecture hall and can also be converted to an event space for up to 300 people. We also improved accessibility with wheelchair access and pedestrian links between the buildings on each floor. A HUB FOR LONDON’S LEGAL COMMUNITY
Bentham House is an important meeting space for the wider London legal community. The lecture theatres and Moot Court are regularly used for events, which staff, students, legal professionals and members of the public are encouraged to attend.
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W ILKIN S TE RRACE AN AWARD-WINNING OUTDOOR SPACE FOR STUDY, RELAXATION AND SOCIALISING
The transformation of the heart of UCL’s Bloomsbury campus into a peaceful, light and open courtyard gives students, staff and visitors an enjoyable outdoor space. TRANSFORMING A DISUSED SERVICE YARD
We took a cluttered, unused service yard behind the Lower Refectory and turned it into a popular inner sanctum that attracts people from across campus every day. Wilkins Terrace has two levels. The lower level is next to the Lower Refectory (see pages 18–19) and provides a new space where people can sit outside to eat, work or socialise – something that couldn’t be done before. The new east–west access route that we created on the upper level opens accessibility across campus, improving connections between places like the Bloomsbury Theatre and new Student Centre on Gordon Street with the Main Library and UCL’s main entrance on Gower Street. And by building a grand staircase and installing a lift we connected the two levels, further enhancing accessibility.
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–C LASSICAL PLANTING WITH INTERWOVEN TREES AND CLIMBING WISTERIA –S UBTLE, LOW-LEVEL NIGHT LIGHTING
–H IDDEN POWER SOCKETS FOR EVENT USE – N EW LIFT TO IMPROVE ACCESS –P ERMANENT HOME TO UCL’S NEW DONOR WALL
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NEW OUTDOOR EVENT SPACE
The open upper level is a peaceful courtyard that doubles as an accessible outdoor event and social space, with hidden power outlets for bringing in visual and sound equipment. The Students’ Union has held events in the Wilkins Terrace, and it’s also available for corporate events — with the refurbished refectory offering the option for catering, too. The Terrace is also home to the Donor Wall (see page 22) — an artwork showcasing UCL’s most generous funders, with the Terrace playing host to a hugely successful event to celebrate its opening. FEATURES THAT MATCH THE SURROUNDING BUILDINGS
Natural Portland stone was selected as a cladding material for its durability, sustainability and sense of light that complements the neighbouring Grade I listed Wilkins Building.
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1 CAN AD A S Q UARE UCL S C H O O L OF M ANAGEM EN T FOSTERING THE ENTREPRENEURS OF TOMORROW FROM THE TOP OF AN I CONIC BUSINESS BUILDING
The UCL School of Management conducts disruptive research and trains future business leaders, from the 38th floor of One Canada Square. Inspired by start-up workspaces, we designed a facility that encourages collaboration between staff and students as they engage in innovative research and education. Level 38 reflects the industries that students will work in and sets the precedent for teaching spaces outside UCL’s campus.
– 6 ‘VILLAGES’: ZONES REPRESENTING EACH ASPECT OF THE SCHOOL’S WORK –S TUDENT HUB WITH WELCOMING SEATING AREA –2 HARVARD-STYLE LECTURE THEATRES FOR 70 AND 85 PEOPLE – 1 0 BREAKOUT ROOMS – S EMINAR SPACE FOR 35 PEOPLE – STUNNING VIEWS
QUANTUM TECHNOLOGY LA BOR ATORI E S
–A CLEANROOM WITHIN A CLEANROOM FOR BETTER CONTROL OF AIRBORNE PARTICLES
THE UK’S FIRST OPEN-ACCESS QUANTUM TECHNOLOGY FACILITY THAT CAN MAKE, TEST AND MEASURE NEW QUANTU M MECHANICAL COMPUTER CHIPS
–F ACILITIES TO REFRIGERATE TEST DEVICES DOWN TO OVER 100 TIMES COOLER THAN OUTER SPACE
Quantum technologies promise to revolutionise computing, security and sensing by harnessing nature at a deeper level than ever before. The high-spec cleanroom we built houses new tools for the growth and patterning of materials to create nano-scale (around one millionth of a millimetre) quantum devices, while three new state-of-the-art measurement labs enable the study and demonstration of these devices at ultra-low temperatures. These facilities will enable academic and commercial users to build new technologies that harness the strange laws of quantum mechanics, for example, to create new ‘quantum’ computer chips able to solve problems far beyond the reach of today’s biggest supercomputers.
–D EDICATED PLANT FOR PRECISE ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL, MONITORED 24/7
“The refurbishment has allowed us to establish internationally-leading research facilities. This is having a huge impact with UCL researchers now collaborating with global leaders including Google and MIT.” PAUL WARBURTON Professor of Nanoelectronics, Quantum Science and Technology Institute
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MAIN QU AD TEM PORARY POP - UP TEMPORARY LECTURE AND SEMINAR SPACES ARTISTICALLY ENVELOPED IN UCL’S RICH HISTORY
We’ve installed a temporary, modular building to provide extra teaching facilities for UCL during the Transforming UCL improvement programme. The pop-up has high-spec audio-visual systems, two seminar rooms and two lecture rooms that can accommodate up to 300 students. The exterior features an eye-catching ‘art wrap’ depicting UCL’s history, which was designed by UCL Slade School of Fine Art lecturers Edward Allington and Jo Volley.
CHAR LE S BEL L HO U S E A PIONEERING SETTING WHERE CLINICIANS, ENGINEERS AND COMPUTER SCIENTISTS ARE WORKING TOGETHER UNDER ONE ROOF FOR THE FIRST TIME
Research by the Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences (WEISS) makes life-changing treatments safer and more accessible for patients. The refurbished facilities at Charles Bell House are enabling engineers, researchers and clinicians to work under one roof for the first time as they collaborate on new research to improve vascular, paediatric, ophthalmic, neurological and prostate surgical interventions.
–F IVE-YEAR POP-UP TEACHING SPACE – 2 x 100-SEAT LECTURE ROOMS – 2 x 50-SEAT LECTURE ROOMS – BOOKABLE SPACES – ‘ ART WRAP’ DEPICTING UCL’S HISTORY –Q UICK INSTALLATION TO MINIMISE DISRUPTION
–2 48 PERMANENT AND HOT-DESK SPACES – H UB FOR UP TO 40 STUDENTS – T EACHING AND SEMINAR ROOMS – FLEXIBLE WET AND DRY LABS – I NTEGRATED TEST OPERATING THEATRE –T ISSUE CULTURE AND SEQUENCING WORK SUPPORT AREAS – H ISTOLOGY, IMAGING, LASER WORK AND ENGINEERING FACILITIES
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LOWER RE FE C T O RY RESTORING A BUILDING’S ORIGINAL CHARACTER TO CREATE A DISTINCTIVE DINING HUB
The refurbishment of the Lower Refectory restores the building to its former glory, showcasing original features while creating a beautiful and contemporary catering space for students, staff and visitors. OPENING UP THE SPACE
The refectory is UCL’s largest dining facility, providing hot and cold meals, snacks and drinks on site, and a catering service for meetings and events across the whole campus. We renovated the entire cafeteria — designing a new commercial kitchen, creating welcoming indoor and outdoor dining areas, and improving welfare facilities, accessibility and energy efficiency. The original building had many attractive features, which we wanted to celebrate. We removed the low, suspended ceiling to reveal the original high ceilings, discovered hidden parquet flooring and opened up the windows to allow the light to flood in.
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–N EW KITCHEN WITH FOOD PREP, DRY STORE AND COLD STORE –S EATING FOR 324 PEOPLE –M ENUS DESIGNED BY STUDENTS –C ROSS-CAMPUS CATERING SERVICE
– USAGE HAS DOUBLED –R ESTORATION OF ORIGINAL FEATURES –L IFT FOR IMPROVED ACCESSIBILITY
– IMPROVED HEATING AND COOLING – IMPROVED ENERGY AND WATER EFFICIENCY
EXTENDING THE DINING CHOICES
We wanted to give diners a choice of open and closed seating areas. So we designed quality banquet seating, which gives a sense of privacy, created open areas with tables and chairs, and added bench tables along the window. We also created a new outdoor dining area. The Lower Refectory now opens on to the new Wilkins Terrace (see pages 14–15), giving students, staff and visitors a quiet outdoor dining space. Students had a say in what goes on the menu. We asked them what they wanted in order to give them a wider choice of food that caters to all diets while offering good value at the same time. A SOCIAL HUB AT THE HEART OF CAMPUS
The Lower Refectory sits at the geographical heart of UCL’s transformation programme. An important part of the work was opening access to other areas of campus, including the Wilkins Terrace, Bloomsbury Theatre, Main Library, Front Quad and the Japanese Garden through to Gordon Street. The revitalised refectory is bringing students, staff and visitors to the centre of UCL and is a vibrant hub for eating, studying, relaxing and socialising.
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KATH L EEN LON S DALE BUI L DI NG AN INSPIRING CENTRE OF LEARNING AND RESEARCH FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EARTH SCIENCES
The refurbishment gives UCL Earth Sciences a modern facility where academics and students study everything from the origin of the earth to the history of the life it sustains. MODERNISING A HERITAGE BUILDING
The Kathleen Lonsdale Building was constructed in 1915 as UCL’s first purpose-built chemistry building and is named after the scientist, Quaker and pacifist who conducted ground-breaking crystallography research at the university. To create a world-class facility that could house the entire Earth Sciences department, we carried out a major refurbishment – reinstating some historic features while improving the layout to create modern teaching, research and social spaces. Students now learn in labs filled with the latest scientific equipment. And because the entire department is in one building there’s an increased opportunity for interdisciplinary research, covering areas including earth sciences, maths, chemistry, biology, physics and astrophysics. The building also showcases the work done there, with a Rock Room housing the department’s collection of rocks, minerals and fossils, and an impressive dinosaur skeleton in the entrance symbolising how life and earth have co-evolved.
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– LARGE TEACHING SPACES
– FULLY ACCESSIBLE BUILDING
– COLLABORATION HUBS
–9 6% OF CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS RECYCLED
–G OOD MANUFACTURING PRACTICE ( GMP ) LAB – BREAKOUT SPACES – REFURBISHED OFFICES
– I MPROVED AIR QUALITY AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY –B REEAM ‘VERY GOOD’ RECOGNITION
“My group regularly uses five different research labs. These were previously housed in four different buildings, but now they are all in one wing of the same building the benefits are enormous.” BRIDGET WADE Professor of Earth Sciences
STATE-OF-THE-ART TECH
The building now has a Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) lab with the latest medical imaging equipment, which is used in the diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of diseases, including cancer and dementia. BLENDING THE OLD WITH THE NEW
While modern facilities are essential to advancing science, we wanted to highlight the building’s Grade II heritage by restoring some of the original features. We reinstated the cast iron and timber balustrade at the top of staircase by rebuilding a section that had been removed, renovated original plasterwork in one of the teaching rooms and revealed the original glazed bricks in the postgraduate research lab. A GRAND RE -OPENING
Sir David Attenborough re-opened the building at an event where UCL earth scientists Professor Paul Bown and Dr Jeremy Young presented him with a ceramic sculpture of a newly discovered ocean plankton species named in honour of the BBC’s Blue Planet series.
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DO N OR WALL CELEBRATING MORE THAN 60 OF UCL’S DONORS WIT H A STRIKING PERMANENT ARTWORK
UCL Slade School of Art alumna Dr Sarah Fortais created the unique public artwork by making moulds of donors’ hands then casting them in bronze and aluminium. The ‘hands’ are displayed on the wall, which recognises the UCL Circle of Benefactors. Each hand represents a member of the UCL Circle of Benefactors, who has generously supported UCL through donations of £1 million and above.
–M EMBERS OF THE CIRCLE OF BENEFACTORS INCLUDE GENEROUS ALUMNI, DONORS, COMPANIES AND TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS –P ART OF UCL’S ‘IT’S ALL ACADEMIC’ CAMPAIGN TO RAISE £600 MILLION –Y OUNGEST HAND IS 15 AND OLDEST IS 99 –R EFLECTS UCL’S COMMITMENT TO PUBLIC ART
“The donor wall represents an amazing community who’ve come from across the world to support UCL. It’s really important that this recognition is at the heart of UCL.” LORI HOULIHAN UCL Vice-Provost (Advancement)
INSTITU TE O F P R I ON D IS E AS E S
– E IGHT FLOORS OF REFURBISHED SPACE
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A MODERN FACILITY THAT’S ENABLING TRANSFORMATIVE RESEARCH INTO PRIONS
The MRC Prion Unit at UCL is one of the world’s leading research centres for the study of prions and their wider relevance to neurodegenerative diseases, with a growing research interest in Alzheimer’s disease. We remodelled an empty building to give them a national centre of excellence, which brings researchers from across campus into one home. The new facilities give the Prion Unit everything needed to carry out research into variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) and other common causes of dementia such as Alzheimer’s disease.
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A WORKSHOP FIT FOR A FORMULA ONE ENGINEER, BUILT FOR TRAINING TOMORROW’S PIONEERING ENGINEERS
– TEACHING AND SEMINAR SPACE
– VIRTUAL REALITY LAB
– COMPUTER CLUSTER
The purpose-built workshop we created for UCL Mechanical Engineering meets Formula One standards, resulting in a place that delivers world-class training. The workshop provides vital new space, helping the department to grow. Students now learn in a place that allows them to compete in the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Design Challenge competition for the first time, and F1 In Schools UK use it for its summer programmes. It’s also caught the eye of an alumni who works for Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport and now returns to UCL as a guest lecturer, thanks to the impressive teaching spaces.
“We’ve made sure that a range of student perspectives were taken into account and that students would perceive it as a student-friendly home, opposed to a corporate residential block.” PIPPA VANDERPLANK UCL Psychology student and UCL Accommodation student team
ASTOR CO LLE GE RAISING THE STANDARD OF STUDENT ACCOMMODATION BY CREATING A WELCOMING HOME FROM HOME
After a consultation with students on everything from bedrooms to social spaces, we refurbished the Astor College halls to create modern, accessible accommodation to suit a range of budgets and needs.
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AWARD S UCL Estates
Kathleen Lonsdale Building
Charles Bell House
Shortlisted: Department for Education (DfE) Education Estates Awards 2019, Innovation in Delivering Value
Shortlisted: Department for Education (DfE) Education Estates Awards 2018, Refurbishment of the Year
‘Excellent’ BREEAM certificate 2019
UCL East
‘Very good’ BREEAM certificate 2019
Highly Commended: Planning Awards 2018, Stakeholder Engagement in Planning Wilkins Terrace Winner: Civic Trust Awards 2019 Finalist: Architects’ Journal Architecture Awards 2018, Landscape Architecture of the Year Regional Finalist: Civic Trust Awards 2019, Selwyn Goldsmith Award for Universal Design Commended: Natural Stone Awards 2018, Landscaping Shortlisted: Royal Institute of British Architects Awards 2018 Shortlisted: New London Awards 2018, Public Spaces Lower Refectory ‘Very Good’ BREEAM certificate 2018 Shortlisted: Department for Education (DfE) Education Estates Awards 2019, Pupil/Student Experience Bentham House (UCL Faculty of Laws)
Student Centre ‘Outstanding’ BREEAM certificate 2019 Winner: Judges’ Inspiration Award 2019 Institute of Civil Engineering (ICE) Civil Engineering Awards Winner: Scheuco Excellence Awards for Design and Innovation 2019, Education Building Overall Winner: Scheuco Excellence Awards for Design and Innovation 2019 Runner-up, ‘People’s Choice’ 2019 Institute of Civil Engineering (ICE) Civil Engineering Awards Highly commended: BREEAM Awards 2018, Public Sector Project – Design Shortlisted: Department for Education (DfE) Education Estates Awards 2019, Project of the Year – Universities & Colleges Shortlisted: Department for Education (DfE) Education Estates Awards 2019, Pupil/Student Experience
Sainsbury Wellcome Centre Winner: British Construction Industry Awards 2016, Major Building Project of the year ‘Excellent’ BREEAM certificate 2017 22 Gordon Street Winner: Education Estates Award 2017 – Project of the Year Winner: Education Estates Award 2017 – Refurbishment of the Year Winner: AJ Retrofit Awards 2017 – Higher and Further Education Winner: RIBA Awards 2017 – London Regional Award Commendation: Civic Trust Awards 2018 – Regional Shortlisted: Construction Excellence Awards 2017 – GB & Rol Construction Award Shortlisted: Education Estates Awards 2017 – Student Experience Shortlisted: Building Awards 2017 – Refurbishment Project of the Year Shortlisted: AJ Retrofit Awards 2017 – Building of the Year Shortlisted: AJ Retrofit Awards 2017 – Client of the Year
‘Excellent’ BREEAM certificate 2018
Cruciform Hub
Finalist: Architects’ Journal Retrofit Awards 2018, Higher and Further Education
‘Gold’ SKA certificate 2015
Shortlisted: New London Awards 2017 – Education
156 Camley Street fit out ‘Gold’ SKA certificate 2015
Shortlisted: Camden Design Awards 2017
Shortlisted: New London Awards 2019, Education
Confucius Institute for Schools
‘Excellent’ BREEAM certificate 2018
Shortlisted: Department for Education (DfE) Education Estates Awards 2019, Refurbishment of the Year
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Level 38, One Canada Square (UCL School of Management) ‘Gold’ SKA certificate 2016 Finalist: British Council for Offices’ Awards 2017, Best Fit Out of Workplace
‘Gold’ SKA certificate 2017
‘Gold’ SKA certificate 2017 Real Estate Institute (Here East) ‘Gold’ SKA certificate 2019 Institute of Prion Diseases (Courtauld Building) ‘Gold’ SKA certificate 2018
Shortlisted: New London Awards 2017, Workplaces *SKA is an environmental assessment method, benchmark and standard for non-domestic fit-outs, led and owned by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors *BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method) is a sustainability assessment method that sets standards for the environmental performance of buildings through the design, specification, construction and operation phases of nondomestic new developments or refurbishment schemes.
Bloomsbury Theatre Shortlisted: AJ Retrofit Awards 2019 – Culture Project/ Refurbishment Submitted: Building Magazine Awards 2019 – Refurbishment Project of the Year Submitted: Civic Trust Awards 2019
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“ 2019 marks the halfway point in our ten-year programme. The next five years will see the continuation of the project’s mission, to build outstanding educational spaces equipped to foster the people, thinking and technology that will make an impact on today’s biggest challenges.” D E ME N TIA R E SE A R C H IN ST IT U T E
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I NS TITUTE O F E DUCAT I ON A HIGH CALIBRE SPACE FOR NURTURING EXTRAORDINARY EDUCATORS
The transformation of the Institute of Education cements its status as the world leader for research and teaching in education and social science, enabling them to continue attracting the best staff and students. WHAT WE’RE DOING
We’re refurbishing a Grade II* listed building and extending its life into the 21st century – while improving accessibility, the efficiency of layouts and better utilisation of space. We’re working in six phases.
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– A SUPERB LIBRARY, RECEIVING 1.5 MILLION VISITS A YEAR
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IN S TIT U T E O F EDUCAT I O N WHAT WE HAVE DONE TO DATE
In phase 1 we transformed 2,500 square metres of space into modern teaching, study and social areas. We worked closely with the institute’s education experts to design a variety of teaching spaces, from lecture theatres to seminar rooms, to give them maximum flexibility. The new teaching spaces now reflect their approach to academic teaching, and have received positive feedback from prospective students during campus visits. The 930 teaching seats we built mean that all teaching now takes place under one roof – and money saved from renting external spaces can be reinvested. There’s also opportunity to lease the conference and teaching spaces outside of term time. Students now have private study areas, a bar with an outdoor terrace and a world-class library that’s attracting people from across the whole campus. The central booking system means that meeting and study areas can be used to their full potential. We’ve taken a creative approach to the space available. By adopting a more open-plan environment, 90 people now comfortably work in a floor space that used to house 36. The new offices strike a balance between open and private areas to encourage a dynamic and flexible way of working and delivering an improved user experience. LOOKING AHEAD
In phase 2 we’ll be creating further modernised space that will enable 72% of staff to move into new spaces by its completion, which is due in early 2022. Phase 3 will complete the refurbishment of 20 Bedford Way and form part of future plans for the estate beyond 2024. We’ll also be renewing the environmental and life safety systems to make the building even more welcoming and comfortable.
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“The Masterplan is bringing our iconic building into the 21st century, redesigning the interior to better meet the IOE’s needs today, and better reflect our number one world ranking.” PROFESSOR BECKY FRANCIS Director, Institute of Education
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25 GORDON S T RE E T REINVIGORATING THE SOCIAL AND LEARNING EXPERIENCE FOR STUDENTS
The Students’ Union is the beating heart of campus life and the first place freshers head to when they arrive. We refurbished three floors to give them outstanding UCL Union-branded facilities and an exceptional student bar with new tables and seating, improved acoustics and a new DJ stage. We also transformed one floor of the building into a modern teaching and learning space for UCL Mathematics that will help drive its ambition to become a world-ranking department for teaching and research.
36 –38 GOR DO N S Q U AR E A BEAUTIFUL SPACE FOR ADVANCING RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN POLITICAL SCIENCE
The new building for the UCL School of Economics and Public Policy brings together students and academics in the departments of Economics and Political Science at UCL in a dedicated home for the first time. It will be a stimulating place for studying politics at the forefront of research and education on global governance and economic and public policy. To house the new school, we’re transforming three Grade II listed Georgian townhouses in the heart of campus, a stone’s throw from policymakers in Parliament and Whitehall.
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–1 ,000 SQUARE METRES OF SPACE –S EMINAR ROOM FOR 50 PEOPLE –L EARNING NOW TAKES PLACE UNDER ONE ROOF –L OCATION CLOSE TO WHITEHALL AND PARLIAMENT POLICYMAKERS
“This much-needed expansion in close proximity to Westminster enables us to maintain our close links with policymakers and is pivotal in realising our ambition for a world-leading school.” PROFESSOR SASHA ROSENEIL Dean of the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences and Chair of the Project Board
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PROJEC T ORI E L DRIVING THE NEXT WAVE OF PIONEERING EYE RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND TREATMENTS
A purpose-built centre of excellence to enable UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Hospital to develop world-leading research and treatments, including artificial intelligence and sight-restoring stem cell therapies.
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– C ONSTRUCTION DUE TO BEGIN IN 2021, WITH COMPLETION FIVE YEARS LATER –P LANNED REDEVELOPMENT OF TWO-ACRE ST PANCRAS HOSPITAL SITE
– J OINT VENTURE WITH UCL INSTITUTE OF OPHTHALMOLOGY, MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL AND MOORFIELDS EYE CHARITY
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M A R SH GAT E U C L E A S T PH A SE 1 A MODERN BUILDING FOR INSPIRING THE WORLD’S THINKERS, INNOVATORS AND MAKERS
Marshgate will be home to new degree programmes, research, innovation and technologies from across eight UCL faculties – uniting activities across Experiments, Arts, Society & Technology (EAST). A CAMPUS DESIGNED FOR COLLABORATION
Marshgate is the larger of the two buildings at UCL East, the first new campus we’ve built since the university was founded. Located on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, the worldclass campus will bring together researchers, students, communities and partners to collaborate on solutions to the biggest challenges facing humanity. Twelve new academic centres, spread across Marshgate and Pool Street West (see pages 32–33), will make up the core of the campus, gathering the best and brightest thinkers from a range of disciplines to explore issues as diverse as sustainability, future manufacturing, urbanisation, healthcare, culture heritage, and social inclusivity.
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– OBJECT-BASED LEARNING – FUTURE MEDIA STUDIO – CAFÉ AND PUBLIC SPACES
–L IBRARY AND EXHIBITION AREAS – STUDIO SPACES
“Marshgate, and UCL East as a whole, will break down barriers between disciplines, bringing researchers and students together with industry and local communities in buildings designed for experimentation and collaboration.” PROFESSOR PAOLA LETTIERI Academic Director for UCL East
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Opening in 2023, Marshgate has been designed to provide new spaces for collaborative thinking that transcends the boundaries of traditional academic activities, enabling students and staff to immerse themselves in innovative activities and game changing approaches to research. It will provide over 34,000 square metres of academic space – the size of nearly five Wembley football pitches – as well as café and retail uses. At ground level, Marshgate opens onto the riverside, providing outdoor spaces that can be enjoyed by all. A central atrium, open to the public, has been designed to draw people into a network of accessible spaces and exhibition areas, including showing the work taking place in our Institute of Making. The upper levels of the building have been designed to encourage cross-disciplinary working and engagement between the academic users, with open-plan and circulatory spaces alongside research labs, teaching spaces and study facilities. Marshgate will be home to a range of academic centres, including: – Institute of Making – Advanced Propulsion Lab – Manufacturing Futures Lab – Experiential Learning and Research Hub – Global Business School for Health – Institute of Finance and Technology – Robotics and Autonomous Systems – Culture Lab – IDEAS
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POOL STRE E T W E S T U C L E A S T PH A SE 1 A HOME FOR NEW TEACHING, RESEARCH, THE LOCAL COMMUNITY AND STUDENT LIVING
Pool Street West at UCL East will bring together teaching, research, innovation, public engagement and student living in a building designed for experimentation and collaboration.
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STATE-OF-THE-ART FACILITIES
Along with Marshgate (see pages 30 – 31), Pool Street West is part of UCL East, a new world-class UCL campus located on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Opening in 2022, the building’s first three floors will be home to the Future Living Institute, where we will bring together transformational activities from at least five UCL faculties. It will prioritise innovation for the future, collaborate on local and global challenges, and develop solutions that will build a fairer, more sustainable world. We will deliver research, teaching and innovation in areas that span making, sensing, robotics, urbanisation, urban living, ecological sustainability, culture, art and history. Open to the public, there will be a mix of labs, teaching and research spaces and common areas, with informal seating and open spaces where people can meet to collaborate and socialise. Pool Street West will be home to a number of academic centres and spaces, including: – Robotics and Autonomous Systems – Nature-Smart Centre – Global Disability Innovation Hub – Urban Room & Memory Workshop – Slade Studio – Connected Environments Lab
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“Pool Street West sets a new standard for student living in a fantastic building, which has been designed to encourage innovative and accessible academic programming.” KEVIN ARGENT Deputy Director of UCL Estates & Director of Estates Development
A BUILDING FOR THE COMMUNITY
Pool Street West has been designed to encourage the creation of innovative academic programming, as well as offer an exciting, accessible space for events and activities that will be open to all. The performances, exhibitions, workshops and lectures held here will contribute to a lively and creative learning atmosphere, and will open UCL’s doors in completely new ways, with research and educational programmes that the local community can become involved in. ROOMS WITH A VIEW
Our new accommodation will be among the best available in London. The two towers on either side of the podium, rising above a landscaped roof terrace, will be home to over 500 students, with accommodation designed as clusters of six to eight en-suite bedrooms sharing kitchen and living areas. Each cluster will also have a common room with three-way views across Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
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Z CR Z AY E D C E N T R E F OR R ESEAR CH IN TO R A R E D IS EASE I N CHI L D R EN A RESEARCH HUB THAT’S ADVANCING THE TREATMENTS AVAILABLE TO CHILDREN WITH RARE DISEASES
The ultra-modern Zayed Centre will enable research, trials, diagnostics and gene therapies, including stem cells for regenerating organs. It will be a catalyst for national and international collaboration and transform the treatments available to children with rare disorders.
EA STM AN DE N TAL I NSTITU TE STATE-OF-THE-ART FACILITIES, ENABLING PIONEERING DENTAL TRAINING AND RESEARCH
The UCL Eastman Dental Institute is a world leader in dentistry. We are transforming a listed building into a modern space to support its mission to advance dentistry, including preventing, diagnosing and treating common oral disorders. It now has cutting-edge research and teaching areas and a live clinic where students treat NHS patients.
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“We’re excited to be moving into the Zayed Centre, which will bring together hundreds of researchers and clinicians under one roof to drive the development of treatments and cures for children with rare and complex disorders.” CHRISTINE KINNON Professor of Molecular Immunology, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
–9 0 ‘PHANTOM HEADS’ TO HONE DENTISTRY EXPERTISE AND TECHNIQUE –A CCESSIBLE DENTISTRY CHAIRS FOR DISABLED STUDENTS AND PATIENTS –3 D WORKFLOW SUITE FOR IMPROVED DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT PLANNING –E NHANCED AUDIO-VISUAL EQUIPMENT TO ENABLE ONLINE LEARNING AND VIDEO STREAMING
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PEAR L PE RS O N – E N V IRONMENT –ACT I VI TY R E S EA R C H L A BO R AT O RY VAST, ONE-OF-A-KIND BUILDING FOR RADICAL RESEARCH INTO PEOPLE AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTS
This unique, reconfigurable lab has been designed for multi-scale research into access and mobility in its broadest sense, from navigating kerbs in wheelchairs to observing people flow in, off and within transport to improve train design and maximise space inside aircraft. The facility will encourage the local community to engage with the research as participants.
“This facility will enable fundamental research within a space that can simulate a wide range of different environments – and help us understand better how people engage with the world around them.” NICK TYLER Director, UCL Centre for Transport Studies and Chadwick Professor of Civil Engineering
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I NS TITU TE O F N EUROLOG Y/ D EMEN TIA RE S E ARC H I NS TITU TE A WORLD-CLASS CENTRE FOR ADVANCING NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH AND TREATMENTS
The proposed centre for research excellence will bring together clinicians and research teams from different disciplines and enable them to tackle the neurodegenerative conditions that cause dementia. THE PROPOSAL
We want to connect researchers and clinicians with each other — and with the patients they’re helping — so they can collaborate on the next wave of research and treatments. The biggest challenge is creating a building with the flexibility to adapt to a scientific discipline that’s constantly changing. We’re overcoming that with fully adaptable, modular labs and introducing more efficient ways of working, with equipment and services shared between the different research and clinical teams. BENCH-TO-BEDSIDE RESEARCH
Around 850,000 people in the UK have dementia and the number is growing as the population ages. Bringing researchers, clinicians and patients together under one roof allows them to interact seamlessly and helps advance research and treatments at a faster pace.
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To develop the new centre close to UCL’s Bloomsbury campus, we negotiated the freehold acquisition of the former Eastman Dental Hospital from UCL Hospitals Foundation Trust. Once complete, the new building will house the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology (IoN), the UK Dementia Research Institute’s (DRI) headquarters, along with the DRI researchers already based at UCL, and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery’s outpatient and imaging suites. The IoN is a world-leader in neuroscience research and education with researchers currently working across 11 London sites. The newly formed DRI is a £290 million joint venture from the Medical Research Council, Alzheimer’s Society and Alzheimer’s Research UK, with a mission to revolutionise dementia research. Bringing them together will accelerate research and treatments into currently incurable neurodegenerative diseases, including Huntington’s, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, epilepsy and dementia. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
Once the planning approval is received in late 2019, work will begin with the aim to complete and open the centre in 2024.
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BENTHAM HOUSE 5 ( FACULTY OF LAWS ) 6
WILKINS TERRACE
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LOWER REFECTORY
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KATHLEEN LONSDALE BUILDING
CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE 9 FOR SCHOOLS INTERIM DEMENTIA RESEARCH 10 INSTITUTE 11
SAINSBURY WELLCOME CENTRE
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UCL AT HERE EAST
1 CANADA SQUARE ( UCL SCHOOL 13 OF MANAGEMENT ) 14
MAIN QUAD TEMPORARY POP-UP
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CHARLES BELL HOUSE
INSTITUTE OF PRION DISEASES 16 ( COURTAULD BUILDING ) 17
DONOR WALL
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44 WICKLOW STREET
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QUANTUM TECHNOLOGY 20 LABORATORIES
UCL IN QUEEN ELIZABETH OLYMPIC PARK
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EASTMAN DENTAL INSTITUTE
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MARSHGATE
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ORIEL* ( NOT SHOWN ON MAPS )
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POOL STREET WEST
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27 ZAYED CENTRE FOR RESEARCH INTO RARE DISEASE IN CHILDREN
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Jubilee Park
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M INOR PRO JE CT S AND MANA GI N G MOVE S
The vast majority of improvements delivered within the Transforming UCL programme of investment are not the larger ‘flagship’ refurbishments and new developments. They are smaller improvement works and include the movement of people and equipment around our campus. These are smaller in scale but just as vital in enhancing UCL’s estate and facilities – to enable world-class teaching and research, and to attract and retain the best staff and students.
“Fantastic dashboard thank you. It’s good to see where we are and what works are in progress. This really enables us to see where we might have problems and know that these are now managed for us – thanks to your team.” PROFESSOR BECKY FRANCIS Director, UCL Institute of Education
“Thanks for having such a better grip on service and delivery.” MARK EMBERTON Professor of Interventional Oncology, Dean, UCL Faculty of Medical Sciences
“There has been a huge improvement in value for money and costs are now much better, service is much more improved this year – a real difference can be seen.” JON DRAPER Head of Administration, UCL Division of Psychology & Language Services
MINOR PROJECTS
The Transforming UCL programme is delivering hundreds of improvements requested by UCL’s faculties that are lower in value (less than £50,000). They include projects increasing the efficiency of the space being used across UCL’s estate and those maintaining the integrity of UCL’s heritage buildings, while ensuring they are fit for 21st century research and teaching. Many are simpler but just as essential redecorations and refits to ensure our departments continue to be working environments in which our staff and students want to work, learn and study. In 2018/19, UCL carried out a wholescale review of the programme of minor works to further enhance the efficiency of their delivery. This has resulted in ensuring improved transparent processes and systems that enhance user support and help to improve student experience. A dedicated team of building surveyors now designs and manages minor works, supported by project managers when bundling projects together will improve the efficiency of their delivery. The team is also supported by the UCL Estates portfolio management team which now provides robust tracking of all project requests and regular dashboard reporting for the schools that have commissioned the improvements. A new approach to selecting suppliers and managing projects also means we are delivering minor improvements more efficiently and achieving better value for money. MANAGING MOVES
In addition to the improvement works, Transforming UCL has also included moving staff and furniture around our campus – often due to the creation of new spaces or growth in staff and student numbers. To help improve the efficiency of this process, we have embedded a new moves and decant function to support departments and UCL Estates project teams. This new team designs workspace layouts and manages the moves process from end to end. It has already had a positive impact by improving consistency of the service and reducing demand on costly external support.
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20 BEDFORD WAY
Improving office space at 20 Bedford Way, to improve the working environment and provide additional space for postgraduate research students at the UCL Institute of Education.
UCL MULLARD SPACE SCIENCE LABORATORY
Restoring the ornate entrance gates and decorative mosaic flooring, pictured, at the UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory.
HERE EAST
Creation of studio space, a wet lab and shared workspace at Here East to meet an acute need for additional space for making and building and carrying out research in engineering and the built environment.
UCL QUEEN SQUARE INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY
Converting a laboratory in the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology into a tissue culture suite.
MOOT COURT
Installing audio-visual equipment in the Moot Court, a mock court room situated in Bentham House, home of UCL Faculty of Laws, to enhance the learning experience for staff and students.
UCL PETRIE MUSEUM OF EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY
Renovating the back-of-house office facilities for staff at the UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, to incorporate a meeting room and kitchen area.
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TRAN SFOR M I N G U C L I N NUMBE RS 2014– 201 9
We’re spending £1.25 billion over ten years as part of the ‘Transforming UCL’ project to create new, sustainable spaces and facilities to meet our world-class aspirations and commitment into excellence and innovation.
ESTATES CAPITAL PROGRAMME EXPENDITURE
Year
10-year plan
2014/15
£81,500,000
Actual
2015/16
£95,400,000
Actual
2016/17
£169,300,000
Actual
2017/18
£213,100,000
Actual
2018/19
£209,000,000
Actual
Total
£768,300,000
Actual
IMAGE CREDITS
Minor projects
Major Projects Student Centre: Nicholas Hare Architects LLP and alanwilliamsphotography.com
Sainsbury Wellcome Centre: Matt Clayton
Bloomsbury Theatre: Nicholas Hare Architects LLP and alanwilliamsphotography.com
Kathleen Lonsdale Building: Aidan Brown Photography Ltd
22 Gordon Street: Jack Hobhouse Confucius Institute for Schools: Matt Clayton
Donor Wall: Matt Clayton 36–38 Gordon Square: Matt Clayton 25 Gordon Street: Matt Clayton
Here East: Tim Crocker
PEARL: Penoyre & Prasad
1–19 Torrington Place: Matt Livey
Marshgate: Glass Canvas
Bentham House: LevittBernstein
Pool Street West: Glass Canvas
Wilkins Terrace: Ben Blossom
ORIEL: Penoyre & Prasad
Institute of Prion Diseases: Matt Clayton
ION/DRI: Hawkins/Brown
20 Bedford Way: Matt Clayton Here East: Tim Crocker Moot Court: Matt Clayton Petrie Museum: UC14540, Courtesy of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology: Matt Clayton
P I ON EERIN G EYE RESEAR CH, E DU C AT ION A N D T REATMENTS
TA C K L I N G T H E NEUR ODEGENER ATIVE C O N D I T I O N S T H AT CAUSE DEMENTIA
AD VAN C IN G T H E T R E AT M E N T S AVAILAB LE T O C H ILD R E N W IT H RARE DISEASES
A H IGH C A LIBRE SPACE FOR N U RT U RIN G EXT RA ORDINARY E DU C AT ORS
CEL EB R ATING MOR E T H AN 60 OF UCL’S DONOR S
THE UK’S FIRST OPEN-ACCESS QUANTUM TECHNOLOGY FACILITY THAT CAN MAKE, TEST AND MEASURE NEW QUANTUM MECHANICAL COMPUTER CHIPS
REIN V IGORAT IN G T H E SOCIAL LEA RN IN G EXP ERIEN CE FOR S T U D EN T S
INSPIR ING TOMOR R O W ’S THINKER S, INNOVATO R S AND MAK ER S
C R E AT IN G A W E LC O M IN G HOME FROM HOME
BU ILT F OR T RA IN IN G TOMORROW’S PIONEERING E NGIN EERS
PIONEER ING DENTAL TR AINING AND R ESE AR C H
A HOME FOR THE NEXT G E N E R AT IO N O F B R AV E T H IN KE R S
RA D IC A L RESEA RC H INTO P EOP LE A N D EN V IRO NMENTS
ADVANCING R ESEARC H AND EDUCATION IN POL ITICAL SCIENCE
A S PAC E R E AC Q U AIN T E D W IT H IT S H IS T O R IC C H AR AC T E R
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