Building 2Science, Engineering, Health and Medicine

A new £60m Building

The building is planned to open in September 2020 and will provide a central location where exciting innovative approaches to teaching and learning will be delivered within the new multi-million pound facility.

The building shape references the visual link from St Martin’s Church to Canterbury Cathedral over St Augustine’s Abbey, creating a new heart to North Holmes Campus and links between the University’s key buildings.

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Completion:
September 2020

Making Space for Learning

The three storey building has been designed to include two academic wings that sit behind a shared central space called the Cloister. The Cloister forms the main frontage to the building and provides a setting for informal learning. Within the Cloister sit two lecture theatres and a series of social breakout spaces leading to the second floor terrace with views across St Augustine’s Abbey, over the city, towards the cathedral.

Each internal courtyard space will become an open plan interactive workshop ‘Maker Space’ for collaborative learning and experimentation. These courtyards will become integral to the natural ventilation strategy, allowing the building to be more sustainable.

Our Courses

A dynamic range of courses to nurture new engineering talent and innovation are being developed with employers, and will be delivered within the new learning spaces:

Biomedical Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Product Design
Software Engineering.

An Inspirational Landscape

These ambitious plans open up our campus landscape to the city to create a strong visual connection between St Martin’s Church, Canterbury Cathedral and St Augustine’s Abbey. Our new public spaces will invite the people of Canterbury into the heart of the University, and Engineers trained on our newly developed Engineering and Technology programmes will soon graduate and be living and working in the local community. These highly qualified professionals will become part of society alongside the many thousands of healthcare professionals, teachers and policemen who have already successfully graduated from Canterbury Christ Church University.

Collaboration and Informal Learning

Located within the Prison Quarter, Building 2 will be a new academic and research facility promoting collaboration and social learning, and will be home to the KM EDGE Hub. The building shape references the visual connection from St Martin’s Church to Canterbury Cathedral over St Augustine’s Abbey, creating a new heart to North Holmes Campus and will provide direct links between the University’s key buildings.

The building footprint sits within a complex landscape allowing the creation of a largely concealed (though naturally ventilated) lower ground floor car park, over which sits the new public square.

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Davidson, Lang and Temple Halls of Residence, first opened in 1963 and have been home to more than 4,000 students.

The halls have been demolished to also make way for Building 2.

Our plans to transform the site by creating public spaces for the community, and contemporary buildings for learning, teaching and research, while celebrating the city’s rich heritage, are well underway.

As part of our campus transformation, part of the non-listed prison wall and the prison backlands have been demolished to make way for Building 2, which will be home to courses in Science, Engineering, Technology and Medicine.

The plans will recreate the historic view of Canterbury Cathedral and St Martin’s Church – connecting the city’s heritage sites.

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Building by Numbers

£11.4m
The EDGE Hub will be worth an estimated £7.6m to £11.4m per year to the Kent and Medway economy

1,250
Injecting 1,250 highly skilled Engineering and Technology graduates into the local economy by 2024

2025
Creating a sustainable and diverse regional talent pool with 30 to 40% of graduates from disadvantaged backgrounds and 30 to 35% female graduates by 2025