[jrb]

The University of Manchester has picked Willmott Dixon to expand the Schuster Building, home of the School of Physics and Astronomy.

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The £11.5m Schuster Annexe will be constructed on the eastern side of the existing building, notable for housing the laboratories where super material graphene was first isolated.

The proposed four-storey building on the corner of Upper Brook Street and Brunswick Street will be directly connected to the Schuster Building, with a metal bridge.

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Manchester University’s procurement team has opted to award the project outside its existing trio of framework partners: Balfour Beatty, Laing O’Rourk, Sir Robert McAlpine.

These firms were lined up to deliver who have been signed up to deliver the £1bn campus expansion programme on projects worth more than £10m by 2022.

But the University has run into problems on several of the major schemes, with McAlpine failing to negotiate a final price on its £30m planned graphene engineering innovation centre.

The university has also suspended plans for a £170m new student village at Owens Park because bid prices came in over estimates.

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[Farsight]

That looks like your typical Manchester University lowrise urban rubbish built on greensward. It shouldn't be on Skyscraper City.

 

[Stopfordian Dreamer]

Wow it's been a while since this thread was updated. We've gone from piling to a completed frame with window frames being put in lol. Not bad for 3 months.

Opposite the site on the other side of Brunswick street we have this little office compound for the builders

 

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[MarshallSofte]

I noticed some more panelling was in place as I went past yesterday. No pictures though sorry.

Thanks for posting the updates. It will be interesting to see it when it's finished.

 

[Stopfordian Dreamer]

I noticed some more panelling was in place as I went past yesterday. No pictures though sorry.

 

[jrb]

Manchester University ranked 29th in the World.

Hopefully with the £1bill investment currently taking place, it should climb higher in the years to come.

Behind Cambridge, Oxford, UCL, and Imperial in the UK.

QS World University Rankings® 2016 / 2017.

Top 10 2016/17

With Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) leading the table for the fifth year, the thirteenth edition of the QS World University Rankings® reflects global trends in higher education funding.

https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2016

 

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[Stopfordian Dreamer]

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Today. Quick shot taken whilst stopped at the lights.

 

[Stopfordian Dreamer]

^^ The bricks look nice!

 

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[hifive605]

so glad that upper brook street is finally getting some decent definition, though the other side of the street is still a shocker

 

[Wub]

I had wished that the Brunswick redevelopment address that. Were Kincardine Road straightened, particularly in the north, and divided by cross streets, it might make plots which are easier to develop.

 

[jrb]

Remaining picture's from Thursday.

 

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Nice bit of detailing on the windows

 

[Stopfordian Dreamer]

Today - finished soon right?

 

[TamaSuperstar]

This has far exceeded my expectations.

 

[Stopfordian Dreamer]

^^ Me too! Unless I managed to slip into and back out of render land while walking down Upper brook street on Sunday lol

But yes it does look very nice indeed!