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Chancellor's, an £8.4m purpose-built facility that opened in 2017, is the home of the School of Construction Management and Engineering.
It has been designed specifically to facilitate a sense of community, and enables teaching and research activity to reflect the collaborative nature of working in industry. It houses specialist equipment to support practical work, and modern learning spaces including:
Chancellor's is located close to the centre of Whiteknights campus, where you'll find the University Library, Students' Union, and a variety of shops and places to eat. The campus itself is set on 300 acres of beautiful parkland, which has won the Green Flag award 14 times consecutively.
We treat our campus as a “living laboratory”. Both staff and students make the most of their immediate surroundings for their dissertations, providing real-world learning opportunities. Examples of dissertations which use University buildings as part of their research:
Influence of climate change on the energy performance of buildings
(Supervisor: Dr Mehdi Shahrestani)
An investigation of the Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) of the Sports Park tennis dome
(Supervisor: Dr Emmanuel Essah)
Establishing how retrofit impacts on the indoor environment and occupant’s thermal comfort in traditional building
(Supervisor: Dr Emmanuel Essah)
Design of ventilation systems in student accommodation to reduce indoor airborne transmission risk of sars-cov-2
(Supervisor: Professor Zhiwen (Vincent) Luo)
Application of baseload electricity consumption profile analysis in identifying inefficiencies in lecture buildings
(Supervisor: Professor Li Shao)
The potential of integrating battery storage with solar panels at the ڹϳ
(Supervisor: Dr Christos Halios)
You'll have opportunities to experiment with and explore an array of digital technologies and software that are in use across the construction, surveying, engineering and energy industries today. They include:
You'll have access to the University Library, the Students’ Union, a supermarket, cafes and our on-campus museums.
If you're considering studying at the ڹϳ, take a guided tour of the School at our next Open Day.
Develop the vision and ambition you need to become a leader in the construction management, building engineering and management, and surveying professions with our undergraduate degrees.
Pursue an MSc in your chosen specialism and transform your career. We offer flexible study options taught through an interdisciplinary approach.
The ڹϳ has been ranked 6th in the UK for research power in Architecture, Built Environment and Planning (Times Higher Education, Institutions Ranked by Subject, based on its analysis of the latest REF 2021).