New Building at Emm Lane

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The School of Management, as one of the leading European Business Schools, looks for continuous improvement in the way the business of learning is conducted. The current site, 4km from the Bradford University central site, includes several listed historical buildings and is set within 14 acres of conservation woodland and next to an award-winning public park, a serene and peaceful place for academic working.

The School of Management is planning to develop this site in an exciting and innovative way in order to join together a number of the current buildings and provide new, state-of-the-art learning resources at the heart of the new integrated structure.

The student experience is at the forefront of our thinking regarding the planning and design of this new concept. We want everyone who works here - staff and students alike - to have first class facilities within a physical space that melds the best of historic Victorian and modern architecture into an interconnected space where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

The new building proposed for the Emm Lane area of the campus will:-

• Photographs of the building work in progress (last update 17th September 09)

  Artists' impressions of the new building. Click on an image for a larger version.

  Provide leading MBA teaching facilities
  
• Provide a centralised resource centre and library
  
• Integrate the law library with the business and management library
  
• Provide new teaching and office space
  
• Improve staff facilities, and
  
• Create a new atrium space for eating, drinking, socialising and working as the focal point of the whole campus

The Emm Lane building has always been an educational building. It was built as the Congregationalist Airedale College in 1874-1877, becoming the United Independent College in 1888, and subsequently part of the University of Bradford. The new development will allow the continued successful use of the building and campus as an educational establishment - an appropriate continuation of its original purpose, and fitting for one of the UK's longest established business schools.

One of the main principled underpinnings of the new site will be the 'Ecoversity' concept, which seeks to embed principles and practice of sustainable development. For example, the new build will maximise daylight and minimise solar gain; solar panels will provide water heating; use of a biomass boiler instead of the existing gas boiler will minimise the carbon element of energy use; and there will be additional cycle storage facilities and showers; electric car charging facilities; improved access for disabled people; and 'live' public transport information. Completion of the new building is planned to be early 2010.

During the period of the building and refurbishment, which is likely to start in September 2008, we aim to minimise the disruption to everyday business. Inevitability there will be periods when part of the site will be out of action and alternative facilities will be provided. We aim to work with the building contractors to carefully plan this and will publicise any changes on a weekly basis to students and staff. We will also work with the student body in the planning of the interior of the building.

Please check the New building latest updates page for regular updates.

Your comments and feedback will be welcome. Please e-mail building.mgt@bradford.ac.uk