New £20M Investment Gets the Green Light
The University of Wales Institute, Cardiff (UWIC) has been granted full planning approval for the construction of a new £20 million Cardiff School of Management building.The state-of-the-art development at Llandaff campus will enable the institution to become a leading centre in the UK for teaching and research in subjects including Business, Hospitality and Tourism.
David Pritchard, Dean of the Management School said, ‘With a firm budget in place, contractors on board and design at an advanced stage we can now push ahead with this exciting project.”
“This great new building will give us the opportunity to innovate and develop an exemplar of what a modern management school is all about - strong in learning and teaching, research and enterprise and accessible to the local community,” he added.
Designed by Cardiff's leading architects Austin-Smith:Lord, the spectacular building forms part of the University’s Masterplan to develop its facilities and to continue to draw in students from the UK and overseas.
Designed by Cardiff's leading architects Austin-Smith:Lord, the spectacular building forms part of the University’s Masterplan to develop its facilities and to continue to draw in students from the UK and overseas.
The four-storey, 7,800 sq m building will provide facilities for 160 staff and 2000 students. A full height atrium runs its entire length creating the social heart of the building with a feature staircase. It also includes a 200-seat lecture theatre and two separate wings containing a range of teaching spaces and staff workspaces.
It replaces the present School of Management in Colchester Avenue which is no longer felt to be a suitable building for business and management studies.
The Cardiff School of Management is being built by Wilmott Dixon Turner.
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