Headington Hill campus at Oxford Brookes University

We built two buildings at Oxford Brookes University's Headington Hill campus to provide sustainable new spaces for students, staff, researchers, partners and the wider community.

The new buildings within a Grade II listed estate house:

• a new teaching block and faculty offices
• engineering building

Designed by ADP Architecture, the buildings provide a new home for the Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment at Headington and deliver their vision of making and thinking through collaboration and collocation.

A social core at the heart of the three-storey teaching building will facilitate informal learning, encourage engagement and promote well-being. Alongside this, the purpose-built engineering workshop (more below) is designed to sit respectfully within the parkland conservation area of Headington Hill.

New workshop

The workshop building will provide industry-standard technical facilities for students, staff and researchers based in the Faculty of Technology, Design & Environment.

The workshop will be the home to specialist engineering equipment with state-of-the-art labs and hands-on teaching spaces. The motorsport, autolabs and mechanical engineering facilities currently based at our Wheatley Campus will be located in the building.

The dynamic, flexible workshop space in the centre of the building will link to the more specialist workshops. Having daily access to workshop, lab spaces and modern specialist equipment will enhance our students’ teaching and learning experience.

Engineering labs, high-voltage testing, advanced scanning technology and an automotive lab with a range of Formula 1 racing cars will help develop students’ understanding of suspension, chassis design and aerodynamics, and provide a base for the Oxford Brookes Racing team.

The facilities opened for the 2024/25 academic year and is the latest university project for Willmott Dixon.

Recently, the company handed over the award winning Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Building and Warwick Arts Centre at the University of Warwick, which followed delivery of the £46.5m School of Engineering, creating a leading research facility for the University of Birmingham. The company also completed an interior refit of the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Innovation Centre for University of Westminster.