Construction has begun to create a brand-new teaching building for medical, health professional and sports science students at the University of Worcester.
Work has started to build a new flexible teaching space at the University's Severn Campus
The three-storey building, located off Hylton Road in Worcester, will be home to 6 large specialist clinical skills and exercise science laboratories as well as rooms for general teaching, learning and preparation areas.
The new building is already served by extensive car and cycle parking and is immediately adjacent to one of the largest publicly available electric vehicle charging points outside the motorway network.
As the construction progresses, the transformation of the area will include further external landscaping works. When complete, the building will be a further transformation of the former declining and part derelict Hylton Road Industrial Estate into a vibrant, dynamic University Campus, whose focus will be on health, wellbeing, and inclusive sport.
Professor David Green CBE DL, The University of Worcester’s Vice Chancellor and Chief Executive said: “This new building will provide highly valuable, modern, specialist and flexible teaching and laboratory facilities for our students studying to become the next generation of Nurses, Doctors, Occupational Therapists, Sports and Exercise Scientists, Physiotherapists, Sports Therapists and other health and wellbeing professionals.”
He continued: “The campus is already home to the Elizabeth Casson Building, where our Paramedic Science students learn their vital life-saving emergency skills, the multi-award-winning University of Worcester Arena, which is such a hub for grassroots, student and top flight sport and the former Worcester News building which has been transformed into a centre for medical and health education where our growing numbers of medical students are learning the skills they need to become the new doctors our NHS needs so badly.”
The project is being delivered by Worcestershire based contractor Speller Metcalfe and is due to be completed in February 2025.
Mark Hudgeon, Divisional Director at Speller Mecalfe said: “We’re pleased to be continuing our longstanding relationship with the University of Worcester. As a local contractor, we’re looking forward to delivering a number of community benefits on this project, alongside the flexible teaching space itself.”