Pictures July-September 2020

July On the left, my slightly wonky picture taken of the first floor on the South-West corner which looks through one of the really important spaces of the building- this is where the large Computer Science lab will be, so if you are a current or future student, hopefully you will spend plenty of time

Pictures- April to June 2020

Yes, pictures! April. This was 14th April- Day 1 of the steel frame going up. I’m sure the pictures before this point are interesting to some people, but to me they just looked like piles of earth being moved about. We have two timelapse cameras (from Lobster Vision)- this view is from the camera on

Why Abacws?

The building is called Abacws because it indicates which academic disciplines will be based here. It is clearly Welsh but easily understood for English speakers. It will also be hard to beat in an alphabetical list of University buildings… The road to get here was winding. There is a University policy on naming buildings but

Back in 2015…

The Schools of Computer Science and Informatics, and Mathematics put together a project team to write a business case to co-locate the Schools. Initially we asked for funds to do a feasibility study on buildings we could move into (there weren’t any- it’s a city centre location and the University is expanding) so we looked

Values

So, being part of a Values Workshop sounds pretty painful to me but it was actually a really positive (uplifting, even) experience! Facilitated by the project managers, Arcadis, and our design team led by Stride Treglown, we put down on paper what mattered to us, as an academic community, and how a new building could

Introducing the blog

Hi, I’m Bea, the School Manager for Mathematics and a Project Manager working on the new building for two academic Schools at Cardiff University- Computer Science and Informatics and Mathematics. This blog is so that you, our current and potential students, staff, alumni and collaborators across the world can see what is going on with