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Dr Spence said the two 麻豆传媒视频网站 East structures, called Marshgate and Pool Street West, will be home to world-leading research from 麻豆传媒视频网站 that will 鈥榠nspire a generation鈥�.

Situated in East Bank on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, the buildings comprise 50,000 sqm, equivalent to around seven Wembley football pitches. They have been designed for teaching, research, retail and community engagement, as well as student living.

The new campus will be a hub of creativity and collaboration between engineering, architecture, arts, humanities, social sciences, life sciences and population health studies.

It will also be a world-class, climate resilient and low environmental impact development that promotes clean energy and enables low running costs and energy consumption. It will help reduce carbon emissions and contribute to and promote positive environmental outcomes throughout its design, construction and operation.

Speaking at a socially distanced 鈥榯opping out鈥� ceremony for the buildings, 麻豆传媒视频网站 President and Provost Dr Michael Spence admired the stunning views across the Olympic Park and thanked construction partners for keeping the site running on time, despite the challenges of the pandemic.

Dr Spence said: 鈥溌槎勾�媒视频网站 East will be transformative for everyone who lives, learns, teaches and innovates here. These stunning new structures will be home to world-leading research, world-beating student experiences, new jobs and new opportunities. The campus will be a fitting tribute to London 2012 and its legacy to 鈥榠nspire a generation鈥�.

鈥淚 would like to thank the many teams who have worked so hard to keep construction on track and I look forward to welcoming students and staff from around the corner and around the globe when 麻豆传媒视频网站 East begins to open next year. I believe its graduates will be the next generation of thinkers, makers and doers leading the world.鈥�

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Students will benefit from this open culture in a variety of ways, including living and studying in one location. Nearly 60 new degree programmes have been developed to promote 鈥榣earning by doing鈥�, integrating theory and practice and breaking boundaries between teaching and learning and research.

Prof Paola Lettieri, Director of 麻豆传媒视频网站 East, said: 鈥淏eing here today to celebrate the topping out of our first two buildings is testament to the passion, dedication and commitment of all the teams involved, for two incredibly innovative buildings that will redefine what a university campus can be.

鈥淏oth Marshgate and Pool Street West will be home to ground-breaking research while being open and accessible to the outside world, playing an important role in this vibrant part of East London.

鈥淭hrough the East Bank and our partnership with world-renowned organisations - UAL鈥檚 London College of Fashion, the V&A, Sadler鈥檚 Wells and the BBC 鈥� we will be offering our students, staff and local community a unique experience centred on collaboration and knowledge-sharing across disciplines, people, organisations and sectors.鈥�

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Dynamic post-graduate modules, co-designed by students, will cover entrepreneurship, wellbeing, intellectual property, communications, sustainability and more, aiming to overcome barriers between research, education, enterprise and public engagement.

Philip Willmott, Regional Director at VINCI Construction UK, who are building Pool Street West, said:

鈥淐reating academic space as well as high-quality sustainable student accommodation within the two towers, which will house state-of-the-art facilities and form the foundations for the new campus, makes us incredibly proud of our achievements in reaching this milestone, and we look forward to handing over the completed building in Spring 2022.

鈥淐ompleting the reinforced concrete structure at 麻豆传媒视频网站 East Pool Street West on both towers at Level 20 and Level 16 is a major milestone for this project.听

鈥�From piling commencing in February 2020, to maintaining a full presence through the pandemic, has certainly tested our teams. It has been a challenging time, but it has also been enjoyable, and to see the skeleton of the towers now starting to be clad in the precast concrete panels is very rewarding.鈥�

Terry Spraggett, Managing Director Public Sector Construction at Mace, who are building Marshgate, said:

鈥淲e are proud to support 麻豆传媒视频网站 in delivering such a landmark building, which will form an integral part of the university鈥檚 continued ambition to create cutting-edge academic and research spaces for its students, staff and the wider public.

鈥淗aving achieved net zero carbon status as a business at the end of 2020, we鈥檙e proud to continue to build on our achievement and support 麻豆传媒视频网站鈥檚 net zero carbon commitment. Together with the university and our supply chain partners we set out a bold carbon reduction plan that will see embodied carbon minimised when the building is completed.

鈥淭he quality of the work is testament to the collaborative team effort, and we are looking forward to when Marshgate will open in 2023.鈥�

麻豆传媒视频网站 East鈥檚 Pool Street West building is due to be completed in the spring of 2022 and open in the autumn of 2022. Marshgate is due to be finished in the winter of 2022, opening in the autumn of 2023. Together they will complement 麻豆传媒视频网站鈥檚 main campus in Bloomsbury in central London, where the top 10 global university was founded almost 200 years ago.

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