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27/11/2015

Plans Approved For Birmingham University's £41m Expansion

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Expansion plans for a Birmingham City University campus in Edgbaston have been approved by city planners.

A new 10,500m3 building has been designed by architects Sheppard Robson and is to be built at the University's City South Campus on Westbourne Road.

It will form part of the University's investment in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).

The £41 million development will also enable the relocation of the University's School of Education, consolidating the Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences on to one site.

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The plans will provide teacher training and specialist facilities for health sciences, including provision for research, a new lecture theatre, a multi-purpose hall, speech therapy, physiotherapy and ultrasound suites, art and technology classrooms and IT hubs.

The development is the third phase of the University's project to move all teaching and learning to two campuses, City Centre and City South.

The project forms part of the £260m transformation of the University's City Centre Campus, including work on a £46m new home for its Birmingham Conservatoire, set to open in 2017.

Professor Ian Blair, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences, said: "Our new Health Sciences and Education building will herald a new era for Birmingham City University, allowing us to strengthen our existing education teaching and research programmes, whilst also offering a wide range of new health, nutrition and biomedical science courses."

The School of Education will move to the new site in 2017.

(LM/MH)

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