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The Informatics Forum is a major new building on the Central Area campus of the University of Edinburgh. Scheduled for completion in 2008, it will house the University's School of Informatics.
The building has been designed to achieve an excellent BREEAM rating, and is being constructed by Balfour Beatty.
In 2002, the University embarked on a fund-raising campaign. This was followed closely by the Edinburgh Cowgate Fire of December 2002, which destroyed a number of buildings, including some 3,000m² (30,000 sq. ft.) of the School's accommodation at 80 South Bridge. The School took over four floors of the Appleton Tower as emergency accommodation. In the following years, plans for the School's accommodation were revised to include some 3,000 m² on six floors of the Appleton Tower, and 11,500 m² of new build on the Crichton Street Site.
In all, £42M was raised from public and philanthropic sources. Planning approval was confirmed on 12th September 2005, and work on site commenced in October 2005.
The Forum is the first phase of the Potterrow Project, the redevelopment of a site, bordered by Potterrow, Crichton Street, Charles Street and Marshall Street, that was cleared for redevelopment by the University in 1963, and has been used as a car park ever since.
Design
The Forum is designed by Bennetts Associates with Reiach and Hall, architects, and Buro Happold, engineers. The architects' brief was to provide a Forum for Interaction that will foster synergies among the 500 researchers in Informatics: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, and Systems Biology, who will be brought together, under one roof, by this development.The building has been designed to achieve an excellent BREEAM rating, and is being constructed by Balfour Beatty.
History
One of the major recommendations of the 1997 international review that led to the formation of Informatics as an academic grouping at Edinburgh, was that the University should provide a building for the collocation of Informatics. An options appraisal recommended that the University should plan for the collocation of Informatics in an 18,000 m² new construction within the University's George Square Campus, using the long-vacant Crichton Street site.In 2002, the University embarked on a fund-raising campaign. This was followed closely by the Edinburgh Cowgate Fire of December 2002, which destroyed a number of buildings, including some 3,000m² (30,000 sq. ft.) of the School's accommodation at 80 South Bridge. The School took over four floors of the Appleton Tower as emergency accommodation. In the following years, plans for the School's accommodation were revised to include some 3,000 m² on six floors of the Appleton Tower, and 11,500 m² of new build on the Crichton Street Site.
In all, £42M was raised from public and philanthropic sources. Planning approval was confirmed on 12th September 2005, and work on site commenced in October 2005.
The Forum is the first phase of the Potterrow Project, the redevelopment of a site, bordered by Potterrow, Crichton Street, Charles Street and Marshall Street, that was cleared for redevelopment by the University in 1963, and has been used as a car park ever since.
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The School of Informatics is an academic unit of the University of Edinburgh, in Scotland, responsible for research, teaching, outreach and commercialisation in Informatics.
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Name Bennetts Associates
Key architects Rab Bennetts
Principal office in London
Founded 1987
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Significant Buildings PowerGen headquarters
Brighton Library
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Buro Happold
Partnership
Founded 1976
Headquarters Bath, Somerset
United Kingdom
Key people Rod MacDonald, Chairman,
Gavin Thompson, Managing Director
Sir Edmund Happold, Founder
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Founded 1976
Headquarters Bath, Somerset
United Kingdom
Key people Rod MacDonald, Chairman,
Gavin Thompson, Managing Director
Sir Edmund Happold, Founder
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Informatics includes the science of information, the practice of information processing, and the engineering of information systems. Informatics studies the structure, behavior, and interactions of natural and artificial systems that store, process and communicate information.
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