Project
School of Engineering
Construction
Education
Edinburgh
Client
The University of Edinburgh
Value
£36,000,000
Architect
Building Design Partnership
The University of Edinburgh’s new Engineering Forum building, home to the School of Engineering’s Institute for Energy Systems (IES) brings staff and students together in fresh spaces for learning, research, student-led innovation and socialising.
The steel-framed building spans over five levels includes fully accessible spaces for teaching, studying and meeting including a sub-divisible 120-person conference room, two 50-seat classrooms, a student innovation teaching space, a computer teaching laboratory, a refreshed power teaching lab and breakout spaces.
It also features a net zero livibuilding lab which will enable researchers to monitor the building’s energy use in real time via microsensors installed over its four floors.
The new engineering building forms part of a wider physical transformation of the King’s Buildings campus at The University of Edinburgh, which includes the new Nucleus Building built by McLaughlin & Harvey which opened in autumn 2022.
Project Milestones
The University of Edinburgh building works begin
The new School of Engineering building will deliver facilities that will support experiential learning and active research into renewable energy systems.
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