University of Bristol - Head of Campus Planning

The Strategic Plan - Ambition The University’s new strategy includes explicit reference to the University’s physical infrastructure, it says; ‘Our ambition is to provide a welcoming, well-maintained and inclusive campus that provides the infrastructure, both physical and digital, that our staff and students need to succeed individually and to flourish as a community’. Actions. We will; Continue our rolling investment in high- quality academic infrastructure, with major upgrades of facilities for Mathematics, Engineering, Biomedical Sciences and Geographical Sciences. Explore and develop the options to create an additional campus within the city focusing on business education and its interfaces with other disciplines including health, information and communications technology, science, engineering and the humanities.

Create a highly visible, coherent and welcoming heart to our main campus on Tyndall Avenue by providing new facilities, remodelling and integrating existing facilities, and enhancing the external public realm. Revamp our digital infrastructure to make it more resilient, scalable, flexible and secure, including replacing our data centres, starting a new phase of development in our high-performance computing and investing in new productivity, collaboration and communications tools to allow all staff and students to work and study more efficiently and seamlessly. Engage with strategic partners with a view to enhancing our physical infrastructure in key areas such as medicine and sport and explore the potential for developing a new cultural quarter for Bristol, centred on the University’s iconic Victoria Rooms.

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