Work on a new £55 million building at the University of the West of England (UWE) Bristol) is now complete.

The new home for the Faculty of Business and Law was delivered by ISG as part of the University's £300m capital investment programme.

The seven-storey 185,000 sq ft building features large areas of collaborative space, where professional organisations, judges, accountants, small business owners and start-ups, will be able to mix with staff and students in specially designed social learning areas.

Features include two showcase law courts, a city trading room, a 300-seat tiered double-height lecture theatre, two Harvard lecture theatres and an incubator for the university's Team Entrepreneur course. The building also includes technology enhanced and flexible learning spaces, IT suites, meeting facilities and parking for business, an external business engagement space, a central social space and café.


Rob Martin, ISG's Western regional managing director, said: "As a Bristol-based contractor, seeing the development and investment in UWE's Frenchay campus and across the entire university estate is incredibly positive for our city and the wider region. The new Bristol Business School has already achieved landmark building status and exemplifies how UWE do things differently – with collaboration and inclusion two of the overriding design principles of the project."

Professor Steve West, President and Vice-Chancellor at UWE Bristol, said: "It is wonderful to see this flagship build fully occupied.

"We are harnessing relationships with thousands of businesses across the region, nationally and internationally helping us to shape our courses so that our students develop the skills that are needed to help the economy thrive."

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