5. 24,000 students from 124 countries
5,500 postgraduate students
5,800 staff
Campus 1.6km long
Current capital programme £220m
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11. Fourth largest city in England
Centre of England
Industrial heritage
Green city and close to open countryside
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13. Professional Support Services
Registrar & Secretary
Information Services Division
Corporate Information The University
and Computing Library
Services (CiCS)
ISD is a virtual organisational unit
14. Drivers
Study Space – not enough
Poor quality
IT and print separate
No group areas
Student dissatisfaction
New learning methods
No room for expansion
15. The vision
A shared CiCS/Library
facility
The student learning
space of the future
An integrated learning
environment
A flagship building for
the 21st century
16. Building a business case
A £23m investment in the student learning
experience
Conventional method difficult - no income
stream
Impact of loss of future student recruitment
National Student Survey - the student
experience
17. The Brief
High quality architecture –
modern, striking, functional
Wide variety of study environments
No regimented spaces
Generous study space – 4.2m2
Desks have PCs - not IT workstations
24/7 operation
Energy efficient / sustainability
Good acoustic performance
Accessible
21. 1,350 study spaces
8,000m2 usable space
13 group study rooms
2 classrooms
24/7 opening
520 desktop PCs
60 internet kiosks
Wireless
100,000 textbooks
RFID robotic sorting
22. Project cost £23m including fitout
Start on site May 2005
Handed over 1730 on Thurs 5/4/07
Opened to students 1000 Tues 10/4/07
Easter weekend
Architects: RMJM
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108. Staffing
IC staff 0900 to 2100
Concierge/security staff
2100 to 0900
Balance of library/IT
enquiries
IC Manager the only new
post - other staff from
redeployment
Staff from CiCS and Library
work together
Cross skilling
Students as staff
109. Equality and Diversity
Full wheelchair accessibility
24-hour opening
365-day opening inc major
festivals
A multi-faith prayer room
CCTV for safety and security
Fire evacuation lifts
Hearing loops
Height adjustable desks all floors
Left handed desks
Large text keyboards all floors
Supervised children allowed
Additional support manager
111. Usage
No big drop in occupancy
for other sites
Mean visit length to IC is
around 2 hours
Longest stay is 6 days!
Average footfall 6000
Average occupancy 700
Christmas Day – 95 at
1600
20% of visits are by
postgraduates
Frequently 500 overnight
113. Award Winning
RIBA Award
RIBA Yorkshire Building of
the Year
White Rose Gold Prize for
Architecture
Building of the Year –
Sheffield Design Awards
Two construction
innovation and
sustainability awards
114. Lessons learned
If you build it, they will come
Huge untapped demand
No matter what device
students are using – they
need somewhere to sit
Listen to them – be flexible
and respond
Think of any 24*7 facility like
an airport
Protect your fit out budget
Don’t lose touch with design
process
You can be a victim of your
own success
115. Thanks for listening
c.sexton@shef.ac.uk
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