UCL - Assistant Director, Engineering and Infrastructure

UCL is midway through ‘Transforming UCL’, an extensive 10-year building and refurbishment programme that began in 2014. The first five years have led to a number of successfully complex projects. Many of these were completed within budget, enabling the funding of new and emerging projects. This investment has made a significant difference to perceptions of the Bloomsbury estate across the UCL community, with the recent completion of the New Student Centre, Bloomsbury Theatre and interim Dementia Research Institute within the Cruciform building all significant milestones in the programme. In the 5 years since the start of the capital of the current capital programme (August 2014), 155 Transforming UCL projects with a value of c.£570m have been completed. Over this period we have achieved a £27m forecast underspend, which has enabled the funding of new projects.

Looking ahead we have bold plans that will build on our recent success. We are continuing a project to transform the Institute of Education estate, embarking on Project Oriel, a £400m purpose built centre of excellent that will support pioneering eye research, education and treatment in partnership with Moorfields Hospital, progressing the development of our iconic new campus UCL East (Pool Street West and Marshgate forming phase 1) and plan- ning the development of the £290m Institute of Neurology/Dementia Research Institute, a world class centre for advancing neurological research and treatments. You can view further information on Transforming UCL here.

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