NTU School of Art & Design

NTUs Art & Design Building is a new 9-storey development and is an additional presence to the university city’s campus. Developed to improve the university’s creative industry by providing additional resources, technologies, and study spaces for future undergraduate and post-graduate art students.

The new 5,300m2 building hosts an exhibition space which offers opportunity for collaboration within the university, industry and the local community, through social open learning spaces. The building also exhibits dedicated spaces for visual communication and digital screen disciplines, as well as a café, Digital Innovation Lab and Black Box Studio.

Designed as a whole-life net zero carbon university building, Hawkins/Brown have used carbon assessment, throughout the design process, to reduce their carbon impact and target a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ and DEC ‘A’ rating.

Mainer Associates have completed a whole life embodied carbon assessment (WLCA) on the completed NTU Art & Design Building. This work has involved capturing as-built and final installed data from the supply chain to inform the final Stage 6 result.

This is inclusive of emissions associated with materials and construction up to practical completion, emissions resulting from replacement and maintenance, and finally emissions associated with building end-of life.