In December 2018 we were approached by Nottingham College to work on the IT elements of a new build being designed for the centre of Nottingham. This became known as the City Hub and was to be a £58 million project.
Joining at the early design stages the project included all parts of the ICT journey from design, creating the room level IT Schedule, procurement and budget management through to the implementation and final transition to service.
Working closely alongside the architect Bond Bryan, the construction team at Wates and the colleges own project management office the project completed on time and within budget.
The ICT elements of the project had a budget of £2 million and delivered a comprehensive network infrastructure underpinning a whole campus wireless network capable of supporting thousands of devices.
The building covers 6 floors and delivers 70 classroom spaces. Each classroom has a teaching wall with an interactive touchscreen interactive and a USB C monitor that acts as a dock for the devices issued to all full time teaching staff.
The building also has a number of flexible learning spaces, including the library, where Lapsafe Diplomat self-service device lockers are installed to allow students to borrow a device wherever they are in the building. In total there are 216 Chromebooks and 48 Windows laptops delivered in this manner.
In total there are over 1000 new devices delivered by the project including a mixture of Chromebooks and Windows laptops for mobile, flexible delivery and specialist fixed PC rooms for the delivery of media and computing courses.
Despite key phases of the project falling in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic the project still came in to time and on budget. The environment provides an excellent place for study and should serve the college well for the years to come.
