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Work will begin on the new £28 million building on Monday 7
August. It is the latest step in an ongoing £100 million estates
development plan, which is transforming Solent’s East Park Terrace
(EPT) campus. The University’s primary learning and teaching
building, the Spark, is already in use and has proved revolutionary
for both staff and students.
Facilities in the building will include two sports halls, three fitness
studios, a health and wellbeing gym, a strength and conditioning
gym and high quality teaching facilities. In addition, parking will
be developed underneath the building.
“Starting work on the new sports building is great news for our
students and staff, as well as our local community and the city,”
says Southampton Solent University’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor
Graham Baldwin.
“It forms the latest phase of our exciting, ongoing estates
development and in addition to our sector leading Spark building,
it represents a further physical manifestation of our commitment
to excellence in learning and teaching.”
The new structure will sit alongside the Spark building and
will link to the rest of the EPT site to create a thriving, student
community across a range of excellent facilities. The University
has been rated 31 out of 127 for its facilities in the Whatuni
Student Choice Awards, which are based on 27,000 student
reviews of universities, and was recently named Most Improved
University at the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS)
National Awards.
Designed by Morgan Sindall and their team, including Architecture
PLB and Arup engi neers and supported by planning consultants
JLL, the first students will make use of the building during summer
2019.
ABOUT SOUTHAMPTON SOLENT UNIvERSITY
With a population of around 11,000 staff and students,
Southampton Solent University offers over 200 qualifications
ranging from HND to PhD, in subjects as diverse as maritime
education and training, fashion and design, media and television,
music, health, sport and leisure, business, IT and technology. Every
year we are joined by around 10,000 additional students on short
professional courses.
Rated five stars for teaching and inclusiveness in the QS World
Rankings, and winner of the Times Higher Education ‘Most
Improved Student Experience’ Award 2015, the University was
also awarded the 2013 Quality Assurance Agency kitemark for
quality and standards of teaching and learning, and voted one
of the UK’s most creative universities in Which? University’s
2013 and 2014 student polls. Solent’s business school has been
awarded ‘Gold approval’ by the Association of Chartered Certified
Accountants (ACCA), and also holds the Small Business Charter
Award, which is supported by the Association of Business Schools
and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.