{"id":68092,"date":"2019-11-26T07:58:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T07:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=68092"},"modified":"2019-11-26T07:58:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T07:58:42","slug":"manchester-school-of-digital-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/manchester-school-of-digital-arts\/68092\/","title":{"rendered":"Kier begins work on \u00a335m School of Digital Arts in Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kier.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kier<\/a> has started construction work on <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.mmu.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMU\u2019s<\/a> five-storey School of Digital Arts (SODA) \u2013 a 5,200m\u00b2 \u00a335m investment into digital storytelling<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/kier-school-of-digital-arts\/63020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SODA building<\/a> will be located on Higher Chatham Street, adjacent to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.art.mmu.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manchester School of Art<\/a> in the Benzie Building. <\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_68097\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68097\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-68097 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FCBStudios_MMU-SODA-day-260x300.jpg\" alt=\"School of Digital Arts, SODA\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FCBStudios_MMU-SODA-day-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FCBStudios_MMU-SODA-day-768x886.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FCBStudios_MMU-SODA-day-888x1024.jpg 888w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FCBStudios_MMU-SODA-day-696x803.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FCBStudios_MMU-SODA-day-1068x1232.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FCBStudios_MMU-SODA-day-364x420.jpg 364w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FCBStudios_MMU-SODA-day-1920x2215.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FCBStudios_MMU-SODA-day-610x704.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FCBStudios_MMU-SODA-day.jpg 1734w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-68097\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">School of Digital Arts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">SODA will provide state-of-the-art lab spaces, workshops and professional networks, underpinned by a unique teaching and research environment to create, among others, the next generation of filmmakers, animators and games designers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The project has been designed by <a href=\"https:\/\/fcbstudios.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FCBStudios<\/a> and it will house a digital innovation and UX lab, film studios, green screens, edit suites, sound, music and production studios; alongside a screening room and gallery space, giving more than 1,000 students a year the chance to study disciplines that span animation, filmmaking, photography, UX and games design, AI and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The School of Digital Arts (SODA) is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary school to support the urgent and growing demand for skilled workers in the region\u2019s creative digital and tech sector.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Peter Commins, managing director at Kier Regional Building North West, said: <\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThroughout the build, we will be engaging with the city of Manchester workforce to create 10 apprenticeship opportunities and we will also be creating 100 local jobs on this project. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;Upon completion, this state-of-the-art facility will bring creative, digital, technology and business assets together to house a number of subjects under one roof.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk\/the-mayor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andy Burnham<\/a>, mayor of Greater Manchester, said: \u201cSODA is a big step towards fulfilling our ambition for Greater Manchester to be the UK&#8217;s leading digital city-region. We are already a centre for creativity, and when you bring tech and creativity together as we will in this great new School, we are getting closer towards it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt&#8217;s a sign of our confidence in the next generation of young people\u2019s talent. What we hope is that thousands of young people from here and from further afield come through this new School. We&#8217;ll ensure that they can turn that creativity into their future career. SODA is a school designed specifically to address and invest in the needs of the next generation of young people.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Penny Macbeth, dean of Manchester School of Art, commented: \u201cIt is hugely exciting to see the stunning architectural plans for the SODA building starting to take shape. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;Alongside this, we are building the new SODA curriculum and developing an ambitious research agenda, inspired by the University\u2019s strengths in digital innovation, creativity and collaboration.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Lou Cordwell OBE, deputy chair of the <a href=\"http:\/\/gmlep.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greater Manchester Local Enterprise Partnership<\/a>, and founder of Magnetic North in Manchester, added: \u201cIn partnership with GMCA, the GM LEP is proud to invest \u00a314.9m of the Local Growth Fund into the School Of Digital Arts, a purpose-built facility for one of the UK\u2019s leading modern universities.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Work on the <span class=\"s1\">School of Digital Arts will be complete in spring 2021, in time for students in September 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kier has started construction work on MMU\u2019s five-storey School of Digital Arts (SODA) \u2013 a 5,200m\u00b2 \u00a335m investment into digital storytelling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[13038,676,997,3649,472,17747,639],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-68092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-building","8":"tag-construction","9":"tag-development","10":"tag-education","11":"tag-kier","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-procurement"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kier begins work on \u00a335m School of Digital Arts in Manchester<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kier has started construction work on MMU\u2019s five-storey School of Digital Arts (SODA) \u2013 a 5,200m\u00b2 \u00a335m investment into digital storytelling\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/manchester-school-of-digital-arts\/68092\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kier begins work on \u00a335m School of Digital Arts in Manchester\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kier has started construction works on MMU\u2019s five-storey School of Digital Arts (SODA) \u2013 a 5,200m\u00b2 \u00a335m investment into digital storytelling.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/manchester-school-of-digital-arts\/68092\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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