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GENERAL NEWS

Hawkshead Campus developments

Jo Payne, Operational Interface Manager

or those who have been shop manager has stocked up ready to CAMDEN
following the redevelopment of supply clothing and merchandise to our With the main phases of the
our Hawkshead Campus over staff, students and visitors.
Fthe past five years, the journey We also have a little internal Hawkshead redevelopment now
completed, attention turns again to
is almost at an end. We’ve survived remodelling to do in the TaRC some much-needed improvements at
torrential rain, Atlantic storms, Brexit and building before our executive and our Camden Campus.
a global pandemic, but following the support teams can return to their
handover of the last construction phase, offices and towards the end of the In response to student feedback, we
we have recently been able to open the year, we have improvement works have now started a full internal refit of
new campus main reception and join planned for offices and laboratories the College Grove student halls.
it up with the Student Learning Centre in our Centre for Emerging Endemic This project will deliver refurbished
(SLC) atrium. study rooms, enhanced dining and
and Exotic Diseases.
A hectic spring saw the completion of But for now, the cranes, diggers and social spaces and an energy-efficient
Mechanical Ventilation Heat Recovery
the refurbished spaces in the Eclipse scaffolders are gone and a gentle (MVHR), system which will reduce
building, the installation of all the new sigh of relief murmurs around much of energy costs. The 2025 student intake
furniture and relocation of the clinical Hawkshead, as the house martins and will be the first to benefit from this
staff from their temporary offices by pied wagtails swoop amongst the new fabulous and updated accommodation.
the QMHA. Affectionately known as trees and wildflower borders.
“The Greenhouse”, I never did find
out whether this was a joke about the The new SLC atrium
coloured exterior cladding or the internal
summer temperatures.
By May we had also moved all staff
out of the Kalanisi building and as
I write this, it is being dismantled
ahead of removal from site. Despite
housing staff for well over a decade,
I don’t think Kalanisi ever received an
affectionate nickname!
By August, we were able to move our
HR team back to their offices and all
the wider Academic Registry teams had
been brought together and moved
into their new office adjacent to the
Eclipse café.
In the SLC atrium, the skeleton
of Eclipse has returned from the
conservator and takes pride of place
opposite the painting by Stubbs
depicting the same horse. Meanwhile,
just outside reception we have created
more of an open plaza with extensive
seating to be enjoyed on those warm
summer afternoons.
On the ground floor of Eclipse, the
coffee shop has received a full refresh
over the summer, while the new RVC

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