Building work starts on £6m university health studies facility

CONSTRUCTION work on a new £6m building for health studies at Bradford University's city campus began yesterday with a cutting of the turf ceremony.

The development is part of the university's 84m campus modernisation plan and will provide a new home for its School of Health Studies.

It has been designed to create a new "dynamic gateway" to the university's main campus and is expected to be open from the start of the 2011-12 academic year.

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The new School of Health Studies will cover 4,000 sq m and include a refurbishment of an existing building in Great Horton Road and a new extension and entrance.

It will replace the university's existing facility at St Luke's Hospital, in Bradford.

A university spokeswoman said: "The excellent new facilities will include state-of-the-art clinical skills rooms and equipment, as well as staff and student areas."

Bradford University's dean of the School of Health Studies, Shirley Congdon, added: "Our students will form a key part of the future workforce of the health and social care sector.

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"Learning, teaching and researching in a new and vibrant environment will assist us in our mission to enhance health care practice and patient outcomes as well as contributing to promoting the health and well being of the diverse populations."

She added: "Working and learning in the new environment will provide bespoke space in which students can engage in high quality simulated practice scenarios that will maximise their ability to effectively transfer their learning to work-based settings."

Earlier this year building work started on a 40m student village development that will provide accommodation for around 1,000 students in Bradford.

The Sustainable Student Village, in the Listerhills area of the city, is scheduled for completion in summer 2011.

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Last year Bradford University also announced that it was pouring 43m into the local economy through capital projects which included the refurbishment of its School of Life Sciences, the students' union and the JB Priestley Library.

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