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The project also plays a major role in the University’ s ambitions around sustainability, innovation and civic engagement.
building organized around internal gardens and large internal atria. The building promotes engagement with the wider city through a publicly accessible Exchange Hall on the ground floor, dedicated civic spaces, a Food Quarter at Level 1, alongside external terraces and courtyard spaces designed to encourage interaction between university life, industry and the public realm.
TQEC is a catalyst for the wider Bristol Temple Quarter regeneration program, part of one of the UK’ s largest urban regeneration projects which will transform over 130 hectares of brownfield land, delivering thousands of new homes, jobs and an estimated £ 1.6bn annual economic boost to the region.
The project also plays a major role in the University’ s ambitions around sustainability, innovation and civic engagement. The pedestrianized campus is directly connected to the new entrance of Temple Meads station and connected to Bristol’ s low-carbon heat network. The building is also one of the first in the UK designed to export waste heat from its computer servers back into the citywide heat network. Through collaborative redesign, the project achieved a 25 % reduction in embodied carbon during development.
Alongside teaching and research facilities, the campus will support Bristol’ s growing innovation
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