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Plans to create additional space for digital exams at the University Printing House (UPH), also known as the Cambridge University Press Building, at the Cambridge Press and Assessment site on Shaftesbury Road, are advancing.The proposed project aims to provide up to 800 additional exam spaces, from Easter Term 2027, to address the lack of space sui…

Thank you to all the Faculties and Departments who have responded to a request, circulated in the Key Issues Bulletin this summer, to identify additional much-needed examination space.The survey identified 21 additional spaces that could potentially be used for examinations without constraints – potentially supplying over 600 additional seats for e…

Upgrades to the Cockcroft building at the New Museums Site to improve accessibility, ventilation and the experience of staff and students have been completed ready for the start of the academic year.  The work to the lecture theatre and the wider building (built in 1936) was managed in two phases with work carried out during the last two long vacat…

The Programme Board for Educations Spaces (PBES) is encouraging departments to list teaching spaces on Booker and to ensure that avaiable spaces are open and visible to all. The University's room booking and management system Booker, makes it easier for everyone to discover and access rooms, and also helps departments to manage their rooms more eas…

Accessibility and comfort have been enhanced in three essential teaching and examination rooms on the New Museums Site which will reopen for Easter Term following refurbishment.Following transfer of ownership of the Titan teaching Rooms from UIS into the pool of centrally managed spaces, work began in July 2022 that has now delivered improved venti…

Each year the West Hub asks those who wish to request a space for scheduled teaching sessions to complete an expression of interest form for consideration in the central allocation process. The student registry team are now taking expressions of interest for next year’s centrally allocated teaching at the West Hub. The form can be downloaded here.D…

The Cockcroft Lecture Theatre has reopened for staff and students after the first phase of improvement works was completed over the summer. The space has been upgraded with a new entrance, improved accessibility, and updated furnishings among other changes. Thanks to a busy period of building work over the long vacation teaching recommenced in the …

Centrally managed rooms, such as the Babbage, Mill Lane and Lady Mitchell lecture theatres and meeting rooms in Mill Lane and the Old Schools, are being migrated to a new room booking system from Monday 29 July. Micad will no longer be used to book these rooms.Any bookings already made in Micad will be automatically transferred to the new system, B…

The New Museums Site redevelopment started 8 years ago and has almost reached the end of the second phase which includes the Student Services Centre, the first phase being the David Attenborough Building.  Find out about the next phase here.The Student Services Centre, or the North Range of Buildings as it was known in construction, is a project wh…

Staff and students will know of plans for building works in their own area, but may not be aware of the other developments, often significant, taking place across the University’s estate. The new Site Developments website brings together information about all major developments in one place, including links to the masterplans for the different site…

Planning permission was granted on 28 March for a landmark new facility at the University’s West Cambridge site.The 5,000m2 Shared Facilities Hub (SFH) will provide providing flexible teaching and study space for academics, students and staff from all departments and faculties, as well as catering and library facilities. Its amenities will also be …

The University is seeking feedback on its proposal to build a Shared Facilities Hub on the West Cambridge site. The Shared Facilities Hub would not be linked to a department or faculty, but would instead provide a flexible space for use by all staff, students and academics on the West Cambridge site, as well as local residents.The proposed three-st…