£55M New Adelphi Arts Centre for students at University of Salford

The University of Salford will soon be opening its New Adelphi Arts Centre, providing cutting edge facilities.

A £55M building will be opened today by the University of Salford, which will be home to the many of the University’s School of Arts and Media Courses – Art, Design, Fashion, Photography, Music, Perfomance and Dance – as well as the School of the Built Environment’s new Architecture programme.

The New Adelphi Arts Centre includes cutting edge facilities such as a 350 seat theatre equipped with the latest lighting, PA equipment and high-powered projector, for student performance and public and community shows.

There will also be a professional quality TV studio, featuring HD cameras, five professional recording studios, a band room large enough to record an orchestra and 600 square metres of specialist art and design workshops.

The building will enhance the University’s existing relationships with industry collaborators including Home, The Lowry, Hotel Football, Islington Mill, the Daily Telegraph and media organisations including ITV and the BBC.

Professor Allan Walker, Dean of the School of Arts and Media, said: “New Adelphi is designed to provide our students with a comprehensive and cutting-edge environment of creative studios and performance spaces which will support the development of their professional experience and training.

“It will enhance our working relationships with a wide range of organisations – an approach to learning which is at the heart of the University’s Industry Collaboration Zone (ICZ) strategy and which is central to our commitment that all students will benefit from engaging with industry professionals during the course of their degree programmes.

“We expect New Adelphi will soon be recognised as one of the UK’s most advanced creative production and training facilities for all forms of performance, plastic arts and for design combined with media and digital technologies.

“The building will not only provide an artistic hub for our students, but a programme of events will make it a mainstay of Greater Manchester’s cultural landscape.”

The Salford Television Workshop will be the first of many community organisations to get involved with the new centre.

The building was built by BAM Construction, using 1,000 tonnes of structural steel and 5,500 square metres of reinforced concrete. It has a café, a bar, a rooftop terrace and a wildlife attracting green roof. A distinctive large walkway cuts through the centre of the building, which will lead visitors into the heart of the Universities Peel Park campus.

During the construction, BAM Construction have lectures and presentation, hosted sessions to prepare students for employment, provided work experience to 21 young people, employed 47 apprentices and helped nine students with research and dissertation support.

BAM Construction Director Tony Grindrod said: “This building has involved some real challenges with the amount of structural steelwork required and the huge number of specialist facilities to fit inside, but the team has pulled together to deliver an impressive facility while still making time to benefit students and local people with a huge amount of learning and employment opportunities.”

 

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