Development
Achievements 2003-10
With the sale of our Barking Campus and other properties, we were able to embark on a £130m development programme during 2003-10 as follows:
Docklands Campus today provides the quality of facilities you would expect from a modern university campus, from state-of-the-art learning and teaching facilities to contemporary accommodation in our brand-new student village. Between 2003 and 2008 our campus development programme saw a number of outstanding new facilities including
- A state-of-the-art library, incorporating new IT suites with 800 workstations which make up our Trading Floor.
- A new 400-seat lecture theatre.
- Knowledge Dock Centre, which brings together and expands all of our business-facing activities and services, ranging from incubator and start-up space to knowledge-transfer and specialised research services.
- A new Business School centre providing a purpose-built home for business teaching and research, as well as a focus for entrepreneurial activities at the heart of the Thames Gateway region.
- The Petchey Centre for Entrepreneurship, named after its benefactor, businessman and philanthropist Jack Petchey OBE, bringing together an exciting range of activities to make Docklands a key centre for the commercial and business regeneration of London Thames Gateway. With activities such as the East London Inventors' Club, the Hot Hatch Business Generator and the Knowledge Dock Network, the Centre will provide a focus for teaching, networking and sharing knowledge of entrepreneurship, as well as supporting new business start-ups and social enterprise among students and local people.
- A new centre for the School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering, housing new laboratories and engineering workshops, computing facilities and a range of other teaching and learning resources enabling students to maximise their potential.
- Our Student Village, providing 1200 student residencies on campus
- An Architecture and Visual Arts (AVA) complex, opened in 2004 by renowned Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry, and offering a fantastic, purpose-built open studio space.
- Health and Bioscience laboratories have been extensively refurbished and refitted and in May 2007 we completed the new Centre for Clinical Education in Podiatry, Physiotherapy and Sports Science – London's sole provider of clinical and training facilities in podiatry and run in partnership with Newham Primary Care Trust. This unique centre was officially opened by the Duchess of Cornwall in January 2008.
- Based in the newly refurbished Edwards Building, our School of Psychology houses a range of new, well-equipped studios, laboratories and workshops, including a Virtual Reality Lab.
- The magnificent Great Hall in University House now incorporates a high-tech, fully retractable 230-seat lecture theatre.
- The historic former central library adjacent to our facilities has been transformed into a new networked library.
- The opening of our new Cass School of Education and Communities.
- A new IT centre and conference room at Stratford
UEL has come a long way in the course of its evolution from the West Ham Technical College to one of one of the UK’s leading modern universities. We are proud of our achievements to date, and we are now ready to meet the challenges ahead of us.
Be part of the future of our UEL community.
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