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As part of Newcastle\u2019s \u2018Science Central\u2019 development, Newcastle University has opened its \u00a359m Urban Sciences Building<\/h3>\n

Designed by architect Hawkins\\Brown, the 12,500m2<\/sup> space is both home to Newcastle University<\/a>\u2019s School of Computing and the focal point of its role in the \u00a3125m UK Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Contractor Bowmer & Kirkland used building information modelling (BIM) to establish new criteria for the university\u2019s management of residual risk in future construction projects.<\/p>\n

By incorporating a wide range of at-scale infrastructure and micro-sensing networks, the Urban Sciences Building and its surroundings have become a laboratory.<\/p>\n

A sustainable urban drainage system<\/a>, energy storage test bed, DC power grid, individual circuit monitoring, and CO2<\/sub> sensing are just some of the features that will feed in to the Urban Observatory programme run by the university. An experimental electric vehicle filling station will be added in the near future.<\/p>\n

The Urban Sciences Building will be home to the School of Computing, where facade artwork and panels have been designed in a digital theme. Reflecting both the old and the new, wall panels resemble the punch card technology used in the early years of computing and the atrium glass elevation is shrouded in a graphic representation of data flows.<\/p>\n

Inside the building a 300-seat lecture theatre, seminar rooms, cafe, studio, and 250-seat computer gathering are accompanied by a variety of meeting, study and social spaces.<\/p>\n

The new Urban Sciences Building is the first of three around the Science Square area of the Science Central site. The university has already submitted a planning application for a \u00a329m Learning and Teaching Centre in the square and earlier this week minister for digital, Matt Hancock, confirmed that the \u00a330m National Innovation Centre for Data will also be built on the site.<\/p>\n

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