Informatics Forum

Informatics Forum

= Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, Scotland =

The Informatics Forum is a major new building on the Central Area campus of the University of Edinburgh. Completed in 2008, it houses the research institutes of the University's School of Informatics.

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 have been brought together, under one roof, by this development.

The building has been designed to achieve an "excellent" [http://www.breeam.org/ BREEAM] rating, and was 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 3,000 m² (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.

External links

* [http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/building/ Informatics Forum Construction]
* [http://migration.inf.ed.ac.uk/Forum/plans Detailed maps of all the 7 floors]
* [http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/building/GeorgeSquareHistory.pdf George Square 1876-1976]


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