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News Release from: EC Harris | Subject: Project manager and planning supervisor
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 12 April 2007
EC Harris project manages lecture
theatre
EC Harris acted as project manager and planning supervisor on the multi-million pound state-of-the-art lecture hall at University of Essex's Wivenhoe Park.
One of the largest lecture theatres in any UK higher education institution is set to be formally named later this month thanks to EC Harris The international property consultancy acted as project manager and planning supervisor on the multi-million pound state-of-the-art lecture hall at the University of Essex's Wivenhoe Park
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 21 Jan 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The hall will be named The Ivor Crewe Lecture Hall, in honour of the university's current Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Ivor Crewe, who will be retiring later in the year.
He will unveil a plaque at the annual meeting of the University's Court on 16 April The two-storey stainless steel and glass building boasts two new theatres capable of holding up to 500 people each.
These can also be combined into a single 1,000-seater theatre, and has retractable seating to allow the floor space to be used for examinations and exhibitions.
The completion of the hall is part of an extensive building programme designed to provide additional and improved research, teaching and office space at the university.
The lecture hall, which attracted funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England, has been designed by architects Patel Taylor and was built by Hutton Construction.
Ken Stonebridge, Senior Project Manager for EC Harris, said: "This was a challenging project which required the construction of a building to not only meet its primary function as a major academic lecture theatre, but one that was flexible enough to offer open plan accommodation for exhibitions, functions and examinations.
"Not only was the project delivered in line with programme and budget expectations, but its flexibility of use created within the design had a direct relationship in reducing the total building area to be provided.".
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