{"id":345557,"date":"2025-08-15T03:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T03:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/345557\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T03:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T03:44:11","slug":"birmingham-city-university-boosts-student-experience-with-11m-refurb-of-campus-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/345557\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham City University boosts student experience with \u00a311m refurb of campus building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tX<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/full-logo-white.png\" alt=\"The Business Desk\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRegister for free to receive latest news stories direct to your inbox<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/register\/\" class=\"btn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Register<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Birmingham City University\u2019s Education and Teacher Training provision has a new home following an \u00a311m refurbishment from Overbury.<\/p>\n<p>The contractor led the refurb of the Benjamin Zephaniah Building, formerly known as University House, on the university\u2019s City Centre campus, with the scheme covering five floors and incorporating teaching spaces and social study areas for students.<\/p>\n<p>Following a competitive tender process that concluded in January, Overbury worked with the university\u2019s initial design brief to deliver the main scope of works, which also included specialist teaching spaces for science, design and textiles, and the arts.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme has been designed with sustainability in mind and has been delivered to a tight programme around the university\u2019s academic year. Overbury has worked in partnership with Associated Architects from the initial design stage through to delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Hazel Herbert, senior project manager at BCU, said: \u201cThe Benjamin Zephaniah Building project is a significant one for BCU as it continues to strive to ensure a great university experience for our students. Working alongside Overbury on the project was a truly collaborative experience\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Simon Stevens, contracts manager at Overbury, said: \u201cHaving started with an outline design from the client, our big challenge was delivering the project to the high standards associated with Overbury projects around a challenging project timescale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis couldn\u2019t have been done without true collaboration between ourselves and Birmingham City University (BCU) as the client.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Benjamin Zephaniah Building project is the fifth major scheme undertaken by Overbury for the university, having previously delivered the fit out of the School of Jewellery, its clinical skills and simulation facilities for health courses, the Joseph Priestley Building, and STEAMhouse.<\/p>\n<p>This scheme forms part of BCU\u2019s broader programme of investment in its learning spaces. This investment, coupled with the ongoing regeneration in the wider city, is intended to give an advantage to BCU\u2019s student experience in an increasingly competitive market.<\/p>\n<p>As well as its fit out services, Overbury\u2019s inhouse team worked with the university on the furniture for the building.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tClick here to sign up to receive our new South West business news&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/account\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"X Register for free to receive latest news stories direct to your inbox Register Birmingham City University\u2019s Education&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-345557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115030725235793863","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}