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Playing our part in delivering a better world


UNIVERSITY finances are once again to the fore in this issue of Higher Education Estates but until Philip Augar’s report is out, there’s little that can be usefully added to the debate.


Instead, it’s good to focus on the projects that the finance procures and this issue is again packed with impressive design and construction solutions to the challenges of giving UK students the very best possible university experience.


Will the money run out?


OfS study examines the state of university finances. Story page 8-9


Our first nod goes to the 2019 AUDE Awards winners, and particularly Huddersfield University, which won the Estates/Facilities Team of the Year Award.


We’ll feature this university in more depth in a future issue, but suffice for the moment to quote the AUDE judges who say the award was given “for a combination of projects and measures that suggest that Huddersfield’s university estate really is one of the best-run in the country. Not only is 96% of the estate measured at RICS Condition A&B (an extraordinary improvement since 1997 of +75%); not only is the university rated as among the top ten most financially viable, with estates development funded on zero borrowings; but the team has engaged widely in intervention after intervention to improve the standard of performance.”


Editor Andrew Pring


Sales director Julian Walter


Production Gina Mitchell


Design Sandra Cid


Managing director Toby Filby


As one example, the judges note that following student feedback via the International Student Barometer Survey, it was clear that catering and sports facilities were not of a high enough standard. “The answer was to invest £18m in the development of Student Central, a social and sports facility at the heart of campus, and completely reconfigure the management and leadership within these areas.”


Another example of excellence in action can be found in our Design Solutions feature on page 16, which looks in detail at a world-leading medical establishment’s new ‘ToddlerLab’, designed to help the study of autism and other behavioural conditions in young children. It really is inspiring seeing how architects, contractors and the health professionals have combined to create something of such social significance.


You’ll find plenty of other stimulating projects in this latest issue, and I hope it will prompt you to draw my attention to new projects we’re not yet aware of. Please do send me details, and I will look at them with great interest and feature as many as we can in future issues.


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The publishers do not necessarily agree with views expressed by contributors and cannot accept responsibility for claims made by manufacturers and authors, nor do they accept any responsibility for any errors in the subject matter of this publication.


Andrew Pring Editor


andrew@stable-media.co.uk highereducationestates 3


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