The new three storey building is designed to enhance the student experience by creating high quality, contemporary learning facilities, to support new modular teaching courses and promote inter-disciplinary learning between the sciences. These facilities will also be made available to other University departments as well as outside organisations.
The building has been designed to be extremely energy efficient harnessing all the natural advantages the site offered and incorporating all the latest sustainable initiatives into the design to help the University reach its ambition of achieving a BREEAM “excellent” rating for the building. These include rainwater harvesting, a heat recovery system, air sourced heat pumps and solar panels, the building will have a low carbon footprint as it utilizes heat and power from the new constructed Energy Centre via the UoL own network of district heating pipes and high voltage electricity network.