Green light for £18m Advanced Manufacturing Building
The University of Nottingham’s £18m Advanced Manufacturing Building (AMB) has been granted planning approval by Nottingham City Council.
The new 97,000 sq ft building will be home to around 400 staff, students and researchers and will include research workshops and laboratories that the University says will “encourage collaboration between teaching and industry”.
Speaking about the new centre, Professor Andrew Long, dean of the faculty of engineering at The University of Nottingham, said: “The AMB means that we can strengthen and expand our partnerships with many of the world’s biggest manufacturers, leading to the development of new products, production processes and other services which have the potential to bring growth to the UK.
“The centre will also help us attract the next generation of manufacturing students to meet the increasing demand for highly skilled graduate manufacturing engineers.”
The University of Nottingham was awarded £5m by the D2N2 Local Enterprise Partnership as part of a Growth Deal expansion towards the cost of the AMB.
The creation of the new manufacturing centre is part of an investment of £100m in manufacturing research and training at The University of Nottingham over the next 10 years, comprising funding from the University, research councils, industry, government and the EU.
Architect on the project is Bond Bryan, with Arup acting as structural and services engineer. Turner & Townsend are project manager and Sweett Group are the cost managers.
