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CAMPUS NEWS
Change at both campuses
It has been an incredibly busy year for the RVC in terms of planning and developments at both campuses. In 2016 a full estate assessment was
undertaken across the RVC and a masterplan for development was created. Both the Camden and Hawkshead campuses were in need of modernisation to ensure the infrastructure fully supported the College in the 21st century in terms of its teaching, research and clinical facilities.
Camden
The works at the Camden Campus
are the most extensive that have been undertaken since the current buildings were completed more than 80 years ago.
Bar. Research laboratories were also updated and bright, new, open-plan office spaces created for staff.
The delivery of this project in a live and very tight London environment has been a challenge, with a few surprises along the way, but this phase of works is almost complete and both current and future RVC students will benefit enormously from this temporary inconvenience.
Celebrating achievements . . .
One of the main features of the new social learning space is the Wall of Achievement, showcasing our amazing alumni and their successes over the decades. The Wall comprises of lightboxes that display alumni profiles and achievements to inspire students and encourage them to aim high.
The College is hugely thankful to everyone who agreed to be featured on the first phase of the Wall and is very proud that the RVC develops such talent.
Hawkshead
The upcoming Hawkshead Capital Project will be the biggest development to date at this campus. The aim is to ensure the campus is equipped to support the ambitions of the College into the future by creating new teaching and learning facilities, modern laboratories and efficient workspaces. The project will feature a major new building extending and joining up existing building stock together with smaller projects around the campus to improve the use of space.
At the centre of the campus, as most of you will know, is one of the original 1950s buildings, known as the Clinical Block, which still houses some of the College’s pioneering researchers including the vaccinology team. These facilities were designed under the 1950s ethos of
small individual labs for an academic and their student whereas modern research
is conducted in multi-user laboratories based around techniques or specialist equipment which fosters interactions between experts who can also share expertise and answer research questions from multiple perspectives.
These older buildings are also now massively inefficient in terms of their insulation and usage of space and will be demolished as part of the main project.
Wall of Achievement
New Common Room
Artists impression of the new Social Learning Space
Refurbished Haxby Bar
The first stage was a major refurbishment of the Beaumont Sainsbury Animal Hospital improving the surgical spaces on the first floor and extending the facilities for exotics in the basement. This was closely followed by months of building
works within the Hobday building transforming the small office structure into efficient modern areas for students and staff. For students, further social learning spaces, an extended dining facility, larger student common rooms and new and updated teaching rooms were created along with a much- needed refurbishment of the Haxby
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