​Director of Property & Facilities Eric Munro on plans for this summer and beyond

In April 2017, the Finance & Property Committee approved an Estate Strategy Implementation Programme to 2025, consisting of the following:

• To extend our Sighthill Campus to house a purpose built School of Engineering & the Built Environment (SEBE) by 2022.
  
  
• SEBE will only move once the Sighthill expansion is complete, at which point Merchiston Campus will be refurbished as a hub for computing and creative industries.
  
  
• No staff will move to the Stones buildings at the Gyle.
  
  
• A feasibility exercise to explore the expansion of our Craiglockhart Campus to include conference, teaching, exhibition and archive space will get underway shortly.

• a larger games laboratory on D floor;
  
  
• a new training facility and debrief space for the Cyber Academy;
  
  
• a five active learning spaces with capacities of between 60-80.
  
  
• You can read more about who is moving and when on the Estate Strategy intranet pages.
   

Summer works

Craiglockhart

• 1/41 is now occupied by Equate Scotland, who were required to exit 42 Colinton Road by 6 June.
  
  
• The Glass Box will become the Campus Manager’s office in the coming months.
  
  
• Information Services will use 3/27 once vacated
  
  
• Bright Red Triangle (BRT) space in 1/05 will be suspended from June – August to allow for refurbishment works to be carried out to 1/04 and 1/05.
  
  
• 1/04 and 1/05 to be converted into an open plan office for 20 people and three confidential interview rooms at the end of the corridor nearest the iPoint.
  
  
• Staff in 1/49, 1/53 and the three School Support Service staff who were in 1/04 will move into this new office space created from 1/04 and 1/05.
  
  
• Some upgrading works will take place in 1/53 for BRT.
  
  
• 1/49 will be upgraded to receive staff from smaller offices on levels 2, 3 and 4.

Merchiston

• The replacement of the inter-quad staircase will be completed by the end of July, weather permitting!
  
  
• More survey work will be undertaken on heating and cooling issues and remedial works undertaken.
  
  
• After summer schools have left, work will commence on the Glassroom extension, which will create stand-alone event space that can be hired out.

Sighthill

• Work has already started on the new cycle path and footpath through Edinburgh College towards the tram stop.
  For further information please contact the Facilities Helpdesk.