Estates & Facilities
Estates & Facilities provides strategic and operational support to students, staff and visitors for all our UK campuses.
The UK estate is based on seven locations: University Park Campus, Jubilee Campus, Sutton Bonington Campus, King’s Meadow Campus, Nottingham Medical School, Nottingham City Hospital and the Royal Derby Hospital.
We are also developing our new city centre campus Castle Meadow.
Strategy
Our guiding vision is to create, evolve and maintain campuses that inspire all that study, live, work and visit to achieve their ambitions. To do this we will invest in, maintain and develop inclusive places and services that meet the needs of our community now and in the future.
The University of Nottingham is proud to be home to some of the most beautiful campuses in the UK and the Estates & Facilities team take the responsibility of both maintaining and developing those campuses very seriously. Building on the natural beauty and heritage of these locations to step forward and embrace our sustainability vision whilst enabling our equality, diversity and inclusion commitments.
The vision
The vision and future of our campuses is captured in our Estates Development Framework, with the guiding principle of ‘Evolution without a carbon footprint’..
Estates Development Framework
The university appointed Gleeds Management Services in 2019 to carry out an Estate Development Framework (EDF) exercise in parallel to, and following, the publication of the University Strategy in December 2019. The Estate Development Framework (EDF) has been developed as a clear, dynamic and viable long term vision for the University Estate. It sets out the principles by which the university should plan future development, re-modelling and management of its campuses and wider estate.
The formulation of the framework has been an iterative and consultative process involving a wide spectrum of stakeholders and has taken into account site specific opportunities and constraints.
The EDF was developed with expert input from MCW Architects – appointed as Lead Consultant and Masterplanner – alongside a full consultant team managed by Gleeds Management Services.
Environmental Sustainability
As a major global organisation we recognise that we have an environmental, economic and societal impact locally, nationally and internationally. The new Director of Environmental Sustainability will be the University’s senior lead with responsibility for all aspects of environmental sustainability.
Masterplanning
The way we use space at the University of Nottingham is changing. The new Director of Masterplanning will lead the development and delivery of a new estate strategy and masterplan aimed at transforming the University of Nottingham estate into one that is more efficient, more environmentally and financially sustainable, and which better supports the needs of everyone that lives, works and studies here.
Initially leading our new ‘Reshaping our Estate’ programme which sits within a wider portfolio of University of Nottingham strategic investment programmes, they will appoint a small team to facilitate the delivery of this crucial programme.