Campus facts

  • The overall internal floor space of the new campus is the equivalent of 20 Olympic sized swimming pools
  • As many as 318 people per day have been working on-site since the project began in November 2009
  • More than 32,747m2 of plasterboard have been used in the new college, equivalent in area to three Premiership football pitches
  • 34 glulam beams have been used in the Learning and Resource Centre, each weighing 5.5 tonnes and measuring 26 meters in length
  • Over 3,200m of fabric have been used in the college. This is the same length as 45 Boeing 747 Jumbo Jets
  • If all IT network cables used at the new campus were joined together, they could go around the world three times
  • There are 736 internal doors in the college. When these are stood end-to-end this equates to 401 double decker buses positioned on top of each other
  • The lowest amount of waste generated and recycled during the project was 97% and the highest 100%
  • There are 4,000 chairs in the College which is equivalent to the amount of seats found on 10 Virgin Pendolino trains