Birmingham City University's Parkside Building completes


Willmott Dixon, in partnership with Associated Architects and Faithful+Gould, completed the construction of £62m Parkside Building for Birmingham City University in the UK.


Based in Eastside, the Parkside Building is part of £180m Birmingham City University's scheme which provide an enhanced student experience.

Connected to Millennium Point, it includes workshops, teaching facilities, exhibition space and open environments for design students from Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (BIAD), part of Birmingham City University.

Housing a state-of-the-art media centre, the building will be used by students from the University's School of Media and the Faculty of Technology, Engineering and the Environment.

The building will accommodate the largest concentration of TV studios found between London and Salford, radio studios, and well-equipped editing suites.

The Parkside Building utilises Building Intelligent Modelling (BIM), which uses intelligent 3D CAD models, making the building the first-of-its-kind to use the Autodesk 360 Field software.

BIM provides information models of the building, which becomes a shared knowledge resource to support decision-making about a facility from earliest conceptual stages, through design and construction, and throughout its operational life.

Previously known as Birmingham Polytechnic and the University of Central England in Birmingham, the Birmingham City University is a post-1992 British university in the city of Birmingham, England.

The second largest of three universities in the city, it was initially established as the Birmingham College of Art in 1843 and was designated as a polytechnic in 1971. It gained the University status in 1992.

Willmott Dixon handed over the keys of the Parkside Building to the University on 17 July 2013. The building will open in September.








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