£7m engineering hub gets green light
Work has begun on the first new engineering school to be created in the UK for more than 20 years. Planners at City of Lincoln Council gave the green light to the University of Lincoln’s proposals to build an Engineering Hub at its Brayford Pool campus.
The new school has a temporary presence in Think Tank, the city council’s nearby business innovation centre, while the iconic £7m engineering school is being built. The first students will enrol on undergraduate and postgraduate engineering degrees in September 2010 and the school expects to move into the new building in September 2011.
The school is a partnership project between the University of Lincoln and engineering giant Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery, which has a major presence in the city.
