Welcome to the latest edition ofBU Estates News, keeping localresidents informed of the latestdevelopments at the TalbotCampus.

We have nearly completed thefirst five-year phase of newdevelopments from our long-term strategy to improve BU’sestate. Now we are ready toembark on phase two of ourambitious plans, which will takeus up to 2025.

The first development of phasetwo will be a new academicbuilding on the Talbot Campusthat will provide first-classfacilities dedicated to scienceand technology.

In this newsletter we give youan outline of our plans andinvite you to an exhibitionwhere you can find out aboutthis scheme in more detail and ask us any questions youmay have.

Sharing our proposals for the next phase of development at BU

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For more information about our estate development visit www.bournemouth.ac.uk/campus-development

Our vision is to be recognisedworld-wide as a leadinguniversity for inspiring learning,advancing knowledge andenriching society.

BU is already one of the largestcontributors to the localeconomy, with our activitiescontributing £252m every yearto the local economy and £378m to the South West.

Our research shapes and changes the world, providing solutionsto real-world problems – with 96% of BU research rated asinternationally recognised or higher and 18% ranked as world-leading. One example saw our researchers use animation,special effects, artificial intelligence and virtual reality to helpsurgeons develop skills and prepare for surgery.

We are also making a positive environmental impact on theworld. Last month, we were delighted to be ranked as the 55thuniversity globally in the THE University Impact Rankings forour sustainable measures and the seventh best performinguniversity for Sustainable Consumption and Production.

Our strategic plan for the next five years focuses onstrengthening our position – not only locally but also globally –by ensuring a high-quality experience for students and staff,while creating a distinctive and internationally recognised profile.

To ensure we attract high calibre staff and students and deliverworld class research for years to come, BU needs to continue toinvest in new facilities to remain competitive.

We will have already invested around £350m between 2012and 2025 in our academic environment with more than £200mcommitted in the development of our estates. Now we are readyto embark on phase two of our ambitious estates plans.

The first development will see us make a significant investmentin science and technology, providing a purpose-built buildingfor the country’s future scientists and innovators.

Our £38 million Poole Gateway Building Phase Twodemonstrates a major investment by BU in STEM (Science,Technology, Engineering and Maths). In this newsletter we setout our proposals for this new academic centre.

We are proud of what we have achieved to date in our ambitionto provide a world-class university and are grateful for thesupport and understanding of our neighbours.

BU is holding a public exhibition in June where you can find outin more detail about our new centre for science and technologybefore we submit a planning application later in the summer.

We hope to see you there.

Professor John Vinney,Vice-Chancellor

May 2019

The new science and technology faculty will bebuilt near the Boundary Lane roundabout

Building onour visionNew landmark for development plansas outline for second phase is unveiled

Poole Gateway Building Phase 2– our proposals in more detail

The Poole Gateway BuildingPhase 2 will be a new home formodern facilities to deliverworld-class teaching andresearch within the Faculty ofScience and Technology.The new £38m building will:l Provide flexible andspecialist laboratory andworkshop facilities. This willallow collaboration betweensubject areas, helping tobring colleagues andstudents together and pushresearch forward.

l Include specialist spaces suchas computing and psychologylaboratories and academicoffice accommodation, plus alecture theatre, seminarrooms and flexible researchfacilities for use by all staffand students.

l Be situated next to the PooleGateway building, currentlyunder construction, facing therecently extended GillettRoad.

l Complement the Poole

Gateway building, providing astriking gateway to theuniversity campus.

l Be appromimately 7,500 sqmand five storeys high.

l Be sustainable and of a high-quality environmentalstandard, includingphotovoltaic solar panels,rainwater harvesting andhighly efficient heating andcooling systems.

l Free-up space within existingfacilities to enable the

Faculty of Management’spostgraduate activities,currently located at theExecutive Business Centre atLansdowne, to relocate to theTalbot Campus and bring theFaculty's staff and studentstogether.

l Be designed to minimiseimpact on surroundingproperties around GillettRoad and Talbot Woods. A rowof mature trees will help toscreen the building.

BU has further strengthened its award-winning Travel Plan to encourage more staffand students to use sustainable methods oftravelling to the campus.

Since our first Travel Plan was introduced in2003, the number of staff travelling by caron their own has been reduced from 67% to46% and for students 15% to 6%. Thenumber of students travelling by bus hasincreased from 27% to 49% and the numberwho walk from 7% to 34%.

UNIBUS journeys have increased from400,000 in 2012/13 to more than a millionin 2017/18.

Our new bus hub, which has six stops foreight buses, is making bus travel moreattractive and provides a continuous east-west route for buses through thecampus. It has also helped alleviatecongestion on Fern Barrow.

We want to improve these figures evenfurther by:

l Aiming to reduce staff parking by 10%and student parking by 44%

l Promoting walking and cycling initiativessuch as Bike Buddy and a safe cyclingscheme for inexperienced cyclists, loansand discounts for cycling and walkingequipment, and working with the localbike share provider to encourage peopleto hire bikes.

l Investing in enhanced active travelfacilities such as additional bike parking,showers and lockers.

l Refreshing the UNIBUS strategy to look atincreasing the frequency of journeys andto introduce electric/part electric buses.

l Looking at reducing the number of daysparking permits can be used for, by 2021,and, by 2025, introducing a publictransport journey time criteria within theeligibility for parking permits.

You can see our updated Travel Plan in full –details will be available at the exhibition.

Driving forward more sustainable travel for staff and students

We invite you to attend a publicviewing of our plans onWednesday12th June from 4pm to 8pm inTalbot House, Talbot Campus.

If you are unable to make theexhibition you can view our plansonline at www.bournemouth.ac.uk/campus-developmentand email any comments toestatesfeedback@bournemouth.ac.ukClosing date for comments is Friday12th July 2019.

View ourplans

Phase 2Development area within the campus& outline of building footprint.