The University of Manchester is moving ahead with the first major project in its ambitious £1bn campus investment plan over the next 10 years. Procurement bosses at the University have started the search for architects and engineers to deliver design work on the first major project, a £200m engineering campus.
The £700m first phase will be delivered over the next six years and includes the new engineering campus, new centres for the school of law and Manchester Business School. It also includes a major refurbishment of the library, a larger students’ union and new medical school.
Outline plans have been drawn up for a second £300m phase which would begin in 2018. This second phase would create a biomedical campus around the existing Stopford Building, a new health centre for staff and students, and includes refurbishments in the schools of computer science, earth, atmospheric and environmental sciences, mathematics and chemistry.