2015

SE6150 : Environment Building construction

taken 9 years ago, near to Heslington, York, England

Environment Building construction
Environment Building construction
The building will house the Environment Department, the Stockholm Environmental Institute (York), the York Environmental Sustainability Institute, and BioArCh, a research group covering aspects of Biology, Archaeology and Chemistry. Originally due to open in time for the start of term 2015 (2 days after this photo was taken), but will be slightly delayed!
University of York :: SE6250

Founded in 1963 as one of seven new build universities in the 1960s. Initially comprising a main campus (now known as Heslington West) and King's Manor in the city centre, a new campus is under construction and is known as Heslington East. These two main campuses exist to the south-east of York surrounding the village of Heslington, and the city is about a 20 minute walk away. The university has a collegiate system Link with seven undergraduate and one post graduate colleges and all members of the university are assigned to a college. For more information see the university website LinkExternal link

Heslington West

The original Heslington campus at the University of York is now referred to as Heslington West to differentiate it from the more recent Heslington East campus. Construction began on this campus in 1964, building on the grounds of Heslington Hall. The Hall still remains housing various administrative arms of the university. The west campus is built around a large artificial lake (Scullion's Lake) with Central Hall roughly in the middle of the lake and forming a major landmark on the campus. As well as students, the university is home to large numbers of waterfowl, especially geese (Barnacle, Canadian, Greylag and Lesser Snow), ducks (with a large variety of species), swans (Mute and Black), Coots and Moorhens. Running through the north of the campus is University Road, with Chemistry, Alcuin College, the library and a few other buildings to the north of it. On the south west Heslington Lane runs from Heslington to Fulford splitting Halifax college and 22 acres sports fields from the rest of the campus.


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Geographical Context: Educational sites Construction, Development Primary Subject: University
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DS Pugh   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Saturday, 26 September, 2015   (more nearby)
Submitted
Sunday, 27 September, 2015
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SE 6195 5045 [10m precision]
WGS84: 53:56.7873N 1:3.4576W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SE 6190 5042
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East-northeast (about 67 degrees)
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