Royal Opening Ceremony for Jubilee Campus Phase II

His Royal Highness The Duke of Gloucester KG GCVO was guest of honour this month at the opening of Phase II of Nottingham University’s
newly-expanded Jubillee campus. The £30m development has transformed a former brownfield site with three landmark new buildings and ‘Aspire’, a 60-metre steel latticework sculpture which is the highest freestanding piece of public art in the UK.

The first phase of the Jubilee Campus was opened in 1999 on a site formerly occupied by the Raleigh bicycle works, a mile from University Park. Phase II developments include:

The Sir Colin Campbell Building — named after the University’s Vice-Chancellor from 1988-2008 — which provides a gateway between the Jubilee Campus and the new Innovation Park, and accommodates the University’s Technology Transfer Office, as well as significant rentable space for commercial entities with close research synergy to the University; International House, which accommodates the University’s International Office, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, Centre for English Language Education; and the Institute for Work, Health
& Organisations (IWHO) and a new amenities building.

Features of sustainable design are demonstrated by a lake-coupled reversible heat pump system, that provides 100 % of all heating and cooling requirements for the three new buildings, totalling 10,400m2 of floor space. The heat-exchange unit is submerged in an artificial lake which was created during an earlier phase of development in 2002.

The buildings also have highly-insulated facades which are less than 50% glazed and oriented to ensure good levels of natural lighting while avoiding excessive solar gain and more than 250 ‘smart meters’ monitor energy use on a half-hourly basis.