Student Support Centre
and New Square
Invited Design Competition
Invited Design Competition
The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) sought Expressions of Interest from multi-disciplinary architect-led teams with exceptional design skills to help improve the student experience and create an attractive and world class campus for the future of UCLan in line with the University's status as one of the UK's largest Universities.
A Restricted Procedure Notice was sent for publication in the Official Journal of the European Union in April 2016. 41 Expressions of Interest were received from practices of varying size across the UK and Europe and the panel met in May to assess the submissions and a shortlist of 7 teams was selected for the design stage of the competition:
The winning scheme by Hawkins\Brown and the six shortlisted teams are featured on the following pages.
Key dates, which may be subject to alteration, are as follows:
| ACTIVITY | DATE |
|---|---|
| Competition Launched | 20 April 2016 |
| Deadline for questions relating to the PQQ | 11 May 2016 |
| Deadline for PQQ returns | 20 May 2016 at 10:00 hours |
| Evaluation Panel meet to select shortlist | w/c 30 May 2016 |
| Shortlist notified & Notification to unsuccessful applicants | 10 June 2016 |
| Site visit & design brief issued to shortlist | 20 June 2016 |
| Deadline to raise questions on the Brief | 15 July 2016 |
| Response to questions issued | 22 July 2016 |
| Submission of tenders (design concepts) | 29 July 2016 |
| Final interviews/presentations | 22 August 2016 |
| Exhibition of Design Proposals (Inclusive dates) | 08 August - 12 August 2016 |
| Notification of result & start of Standstill period | 05 September 2016 |
| Public announcement of result | Mid September 2016 |
