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Chancellor's Building

Chancellor's Building, an £8.4m purpose-built facility that opened in 2017, is the home of the School of Construction Management and Engineering. 

It has been designed specifically to facilitate a sense of community, and enables teaching and research activity to reflect the collaborative nature of working in industry. It houses specialist equipment to support practical work, and modern learning spaces including:

  • two teaching and research labs
  • social break out spaces
  • academic offices
  • a resource room
     

Chancellor's Building is located close to the centre of Whiteknights campus, where you'll find the University Library, Students' Union, and a variety of shops and places to eat. The campus itself is set on 321 acres of beautiful parkland, which has won the Green Flag award 14 times consecutively.

Computer lab

Our purpose-built computer lab is equipped with PCs that can be used for independent work and group project work.

Resource room

Our dedicated resource room is packed with subject-specific books and journals. It also provides study space and seating areas that are ideally suited to informal meetings.

Immersive virtual reality

Our cave automatic virtual environment (CAVE) allows you to fully interact with 3D digitised environments. It reflects the growing use of immersive technology in industry.

Virtual learning environments

Students have access to virtual classrooms and lecture notes from wherever they're studying. They can submit coursework electronically and take advantage of many other aspects of the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) to enhance their learning.

Innovative digital technologies

You'll have opportunities to experiment with and explore an array of digital technologies and software that are in use across the construction, surveying, engineering and energy industries today. They include: 

  • building information modelling (BIM)
  • Oculus Rift head-mounted displays
  • 3D printers
  • 3D laser scanners
  • urban microclimate simulations
  • building energy simulations.

Other University facilities

You'll have access to the University Library, the Students’ Union, a supermarket, cafes and our on-campus museums.

Visit us: come to an Open Day

If you're considering studying at the University of Reading, take a guided tour of the School at our next Open Day.

The resource room was an excellent central meeting point, where you could guarantee you'd find another student on your course if you needed help or just a chat.
Zoë French
BSc (Hons) Construction Management and Quantity Surveying graduate

Undergraduate study

Develop the vision and ambition you need to become a leader in the construction management, building engineering and management, and surveying professions with our undergraduate degrees.

Master's study

Pursue an MSc in your chosen specialism and transform your career. We offer flexible study options taught through an interdisciplinary approach. 

Our research

The University of Reading has been ranked 6th in the UK for research power in Architecture, Built Environment and Planning (Times Higher Education, Institutions Ranked by Subject, based on its analysis of the latest REF 2021).

Athena SWAN Silver Award