Estate & Facilities News and Comments

26/02/2016

Falmer - Monday: there is a home game against Leeds at the Amex Stadium this coming Monday, 29 February: kick-off 1945.

Please note that as part of our agreement to use the Bridge carpark for our park and ride facility, we are not permitted access to it on match days. The car park will therefore be closed all day Monday and any vehicles that park there may be ticketed by our car parking management company...

http://staffcentral.brighton.ac.uk/estateandfacilities/our-services/parking-efm/changes-parkride.html

Initial works to the proposed Advanced Engineering Building has commenced on the North car park. As previously advised, this area will cover all of the spaces in the car park. However, pedestrian access and cycle storage will be maintained. A new access point for vehicles will be put in place and a…

11/12/2015

In the early years of the Russian Civil War, both Red and White armies nearly wiped out the local Siberian tigers, yet approximately one hundred years on the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS Russia) initiated a project in co-operation with the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) to improve the protection of tigers and prey species…

09/12/2015

Wildlife numbers skyrocket in Chernobyl - It seems that man is more deadly to wildlife than a nuclear disaster according to new research that has found animal populations in the Chernobyl exclusion zone soaring 30 years after the world’s worst nuclear accident. Many native wildlife species have found refuge in the human-free zone in Ukraine. Scientists have learned that the number of moose, wolves, bear, red deer and wild boar living in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone — and even rarer species like the European lynx - have returned to the area and are breeding successfully…

13/11/2015

Bad weather updates can be found on both Staff and Student Central. EFM also has permanent guidelines on what to do if things go particularly pear-shaped: http://staffcentral.brighton.ac.uk/…/our-servi…/weather.html

24/09/2015

Free uni Bus Service - some changes from autumn term: https://staff.brighton.ac.uk/the-hub/Pages/University-bus-service-changes.aspx

26/08/2015

SILS wins top award...

A design initiative optimising the university's 'void spaces' won a top national award. The reconfigured Watts space has had a notable impact on the building's social environment and this flagship space at the Moulsecoomb campus collected the inaugural Association of University Directors of Estates’ Impact Award at a gala evening held at Stirling Castle in Scotland.

Conceived by graduates from Interior Architecture, Carly West and Tom Munson, and built on a close partnership with the university’s Estate and Facilities Management Department and Professor Anne Boddington, former CETLD Director, the overarching SILS project has sought to analyse and re-purpose spaces across the university’s five campuses.

04/06/2015

Take a look at EFM's wide range of projects and how they are, and will, change the physical profile of the uni...
http://staffcentral.brighton.ac.uk/estateandfacilities/projects/index.html

22/05/2015

Watch this space for upcoming summer events at the Amex Stadium. When several thousand people converge on Falmer the university community needs fair warning!

26/01/2015

Keep abreast of developments at Cockcroft...

http://staffcentral.brighton.ac.uk/estateandfacilities/projects/cockcroft-latest.html

17/10/2014

Award-winning documentary Lion Ark to be distributed worldwide thanks to a deal the charity Animal Defenders International (ADI) brokered with ITV Studios. Lion Ark follows a team from ADI as they rescue 25 lions from circuses in Bolivia...

19/09/2014

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Below - Canada lynx now have nearly 25 million acres of protected ‘critical habitat’ across six US states: Idaho, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, Washington and Wyoming. Their population dropped dramatically in the past because of trapping, which remains a key threat, along with habitat loss and degradation. Adapted for hunting in deep snow, lynx have thick cushions of hair on the soles of their feet that act like built-in snowshoes. The decision is the culmination of years of work to protect these beautiful cats.

30/07/2014

Please go to the Estate and Facilies website for updates on fixtures at the Amex Stadium...

Below, the East African Court of Justice has ruled against construction of a tarmac highway that would cut across migration routes of the great herds of wildebeest and zebras in the Serengeti National Park.