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The University of Oxford has appointed Laing O’Rourke to deliver the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. The award signifies one of the largest single building projects ever undertaken by the University.

This will be Laing O’Rourke’s twelfth project for a client it has worked with for two decades.

The new building will bring nine faculties and institutes and seven libraries and collections into one home, with sustainable, flexible, accessible spaces for graduate postgrad and post doc learning, research and experimentation. Performance and public engagement space forms a key element of the project.

The Laing O’Rourke team, led by Steve Holland, who most recently oversaw delivery of the Oxford Biochemistry Completion project together with the previous ROQ projects, will begin construction of the Hopkins Architect designed building in Autumn 2022.

 “Our two decades of delivery with the University of Oxford has allowed us to demonstrate the power of our experience, delivering complex schemes by working in close partnership with our clients.”

– Steve Holland 

Team leader, Laing O’Rourke

Other projects

“The humanities building will also allow us to draw on our experience of delivering performance spaces,” adds Holland. “We’re currently on site at Soho Place in London nearing completion of a building that houses the first theatre to be built in the West End for 50 years and in Manchester our teams are constructing The Factory, which will become home to the Manchester International Festival.”

Jennifer Makkreel, Project Director University of Oxford says: "Laing O’Rourke demonstrated that they shared the University's vision for the exciting possibilities of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities and we are looking forward to working with them again."

Picture: The designs for the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities at Oxford University.

Article written by Cathryn Ellis
20th January 2022

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