In June 2022, Oxford Brookes received planning permission for two cutting edge, sustainable buildings on the Headington Hill site. Our vision is to create new facilities that allow our students, staff and researchers to flourish, bring the Oxford Brookes community together, boost local collaboration and help meet the needs of industry. The buildings will be the new home for the Faculty of Technology, Design & Environment’s activity currently based at Wheatley Campus.
Building work for the buildings began in January 2023 and both buildings will open their doors in the 2024/25 academic year. With any large scale building project timescales can shift, so we will keep you informed of any changes to the completion date as the development progresses.
Until we move into these new buildings, alternative spaces for School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics courses have been identified on our Headington Campus. These temporary arrangements will mean we can continue to provide students and staff with an excellent campus location and facilities while final work takes place to complete our new buildings.
We are currently looking to timetable School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics activity in these alternative spaces on the Headington Campus for the whole of Semester One in the 2024/25 academic year. If we are able to move into the two new buildings at an earlier stage during Semester One, we will do so as we have prepared an alternative timetable to quickly implement.
We will add further updates to this webpage during Summer 2024 with details on when exactly the new buildings will open their doors, and information on our use of alternative spaces at our Headington Campus until we reach that point.
While alternative spaces are used, we believe there will be a number of benefits from being based on our vibrant Headington Campus with better opportunities for collaboration, accessing support services, and in being closer to our student accommodation sites and the city of Oxford.
Image caption: North elevation of the new teaching building being constructed on Oxford Brookes' Headington Hill site.