The University of Bath Main Campus

The University’s main campus is in Claverton Down, Bath two kilometers. The site is compact; it is possible to walk from one end to another in fifteen minutes. The design involved the separation of vehicular and pedestrian traffic, with traffic on the lower floors and pedestrians on a street raised center, known as the parade. The buildings lining the parade student residences and apartment blocks built up from the central line. These plans were met mostly.



In the center of the campus is the Library and Learning Center, a facility open round-service clock computing, information and research assistance, as well as books and magazines. A number of outlets are in the parade, including restaurants, bars and fast food cafes, and three banks, a union shop, and a small supermarket and an oriental general and academic blocks. Names of construction are based on your location and distance vis-à-vis the library (for example, 1 East, 2 East). Odd buildings are on the same side of the parade as the library, and even-numbered buildings are on the opposite side.

Buildings along the east-west axis are mostly direct access from the parade, which is generally considered as "level two", but later additions such as 7 West, West 9, 3 West and East 8, follow this less strict rule. 7 West usually only accessible through 5 West or West 9, and 3 North, West and East 8 9 have entrances at ground level at different distances from the main stop. The buildings on the south campus, South South 1-4, accessed by roads and footpaths and university lakeside gardens.

The buildings, as in many of the universities called glass plates, were built in a modernist style using concrete functional, although such designs were later ridiculed for his lack of charm of Victorian red brick universities or older and medieval. In Bath, there is a contrast between the campus including concrete and Georgian architecture of the World Heritage City of Bath.

The eastern part of the campus is dominated by the people Train, built in 1992 and reinforced in 2003 with a.

The northern perimeter of the university student residences is limited by West wood, Eastwood, Brendon track, Polden Court, Solsbury Court, Tennis Court Marlborough and Woodland. The original plan for students who stay in the blocks of flats above the parade continues with a small number of rooms (110) Norwood House. However, the second tower block, Wessex House, now houses a number of offices rather than homes.

The university also has buildings in the city of Bath, mostly student residences around the city, although Carpenter House is also home to a permanent training center and a business center (the Innovation Center).


University of Bath (Claverton Down Campus)

Main campus development continues, including building more theaters which are due to start in 2013.

Completed projects include:

• 3 West North (classrooms) in 2005;
• 4 South Annex (research), August 2007;
• Woodland Court, with 353 studio rooms, September 2008;
• 4 West, Cafe, March 2010;
• A new Student Center, October 2010
• The East Building, a multifunctional building (office and classrooms), May 2011

The university continually updates its Claverton Down campus with new teaching blocks. A proposal to move the green zone boundary to the edge of campus to facilitate further development was agreed in October 2007 by the City Council following a public consultation, although the limit of the area of ​​natural beauty still Cotswolds traverses the site. In July 2005, construction of 3 West North (officially opened on October 27) was completed. Deconstruction of asbestos contaminated with 4 West was completed in mid-2005 and the building opened 4 West in April 2010 to provide additional teaching and office space.

The ICIA Arts Complex plans to add a new building adjacent to the theater. Construction work is scheduled to begin in September 2013.

For several years, the fair has been recognized for its exceptional beauty, with Bath in Bloom awards.

The University of Bath in Swindon

The University opened a second site, Oakfield Campus, Marlowe 2000 in Swindon Road, on land leased from the Council. Oakfield School Previously, the site was funded jointly by the University and the Board of Swindon. Officially the University of Bath in Swindon, the campus offers undergraduate courses in childhood studies and social work. The campus was closed in the summer of 2008.

Swindon

Under the Access Project, the university had planned to build a new main campus next to the Great Western Hospital and Coate Water nature reserve. The project was met with opposition from environmentalists and neighbors, but had received government approval. The University withdrew from the project in March 2007, citing "current planning and funding conditions."

Academics and courses

Major academic strengths of the university have been engineering (especially electronic and electrical and mechanical), the physical sciences, mathematics and technology. Today, the university is also strong in management, humanities, social sciences and architecture. Courses place a strong emphasis on vocational training, the university recommends that students take a placement a year industry in the penultimate year of the course, although there is no formal recognition of these practices in the certificates of the students final grade.

According to the latest government assessments, Bath has 15 items rated as "excellent" (the highest on the scale). These are: Pharmacy and Pharmacology, and Management (AMBA accredited), Architecture and Civil Engineering, Economics, Computer Science, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering (IMechE accredited), Mathematics, Statistics and Operational research, education, Molecular Bio sciences , Life Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, Politics, Sports, and Administration Social Policy.