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Bioscience Masterplan Cardiff University Masterplan University of Northampton Masterplan

We were appointed in April 2014 to prepare a Development Framework to support Cardiff The projects included buildings and infrastructure works. We produced simple massing
University achieve their ambition for its estate as set out in its ‘Way Forward’ strategic diagrams to allow the University to understand the scale of the development and working
document. To develop the spatial brief, we compared the current departmental space, and with the Project Manager and Cost Consultants also provided programmes and cash flow
its utilisation, against the HE sector as a whole, and against other Russell Group institutions forecasts for the project to allow the University to understand the financial implications
and the results were presented to the Senior Executive Group. We undertook extensive of the projects. We reported to the University Executive Board monthly. We divided the
consultations (based on questionnaires and one to one / group meetings) with all senior process into several development periods: preparation; option development; finalisation and
members of the University and all departments. We consulted with a range of external documentation. Each element of the process was signed off by the University before the
stakeholders including the Local Authority planning department, Network Rail and the NHS team moved onto the next stage. The masterplan was successfully delivered in December
Trust at Heath Hospital. 2014 receiving unanimous approval
From this consultation we produced a long term vision for the University up until 2035. MCW have been working with the University of Northampton since our formation in 2011.
This strategy assessed all potential sites around the University and recommended some Their Waterside Campus Project is one of the most ambitious HE projects in the UK.
key acquistions. Discussion with senior staff was done at ‘Away Days’. Once the long term Migrating their existing two campuses onto a single central site in Northampton is seen as
vision was agreed we developed the Phase 1 projects scopes, which covered the work critical to their continued business and operational success, bringing operational efficiencies
required between 2015 and 2025. We constructed a simple 3D model of the University as well as the potential to exploit cross academic synergies in an exciting innovative
accommodation which was used to enable detailed discussions with the various client educational environment. The location allows a substantial part of the University’s residential
groups. At this stage the University Conditions Survey was available, and this, together with accommodation to be located immediately adjacent to the new academic accommodation
the general feedback, was used to target seven key projects. and to support the adjacent commercial development as part of a holistic approach to
developing the site.