28/06/2019 – Crash Deck Installation in Herschel

This week the contractors continued with the strip out works and began installing crash decks in the lecture theatre’s to allow safe access while working at height to replace the ceiling, lighting and AV cabling.

Crash deck in the Curtis Auditorium.

Work has also progressed on modifications to the two projection rooms to allow for high quality projectors to be installed. This will improve viewing angles for the audience in the Curtis Auditorium and enable dual projection in the three lecture theatres.

Modifications to the projection booth.

07/06/2019 – Site Setup Begins in Herschel

Main contractors, P F Burridge, arrived on site today to begin site setup. The AV team have also stripped the existing audio visual equipment out of Lecture Theatres 1, 2 and 3 which will be either recycled or reused elsewhere on campus.

Lecture Theatre 1 closed for refurbishment.
Lecture Theatre 3 AV removed.
Lecture Theatre 1 AV removed.
Lecture Theatre 1 site setup commencing.

Herschel Building Lecture Theatres: Before

Herschel Building Lecture Theatre Refurbishment

Refurbishment works in Lecture Theatre’s 1, 2, 3 and the Curtis Auditorium will commence on Monday 10th June, completing on Friday 20th September 2019.

Any queries regarding the project should be sent to the ESS project manager Tony Burdon tony.burdon@ncl.ac.uk or Andrew Nelson andrew.nelson@ncl.ac.uk.

Drummond Building Teaching Rooms

In 2019 rooms 3.11 and 4.03 in the Drummond Building will be refurbished to bring them up to common user teaching room standards, including the replacement of audio-visual equipment and redecoration where necessary.

3.11
4.03

If you teach in these spaces, your feedback is invaluable and will used to inform the scope of works and design. Therefore, it would be greatly appreciated if you could take time the complete the short survey below.

Drummond Building Survey