UCL East campus on track to deliver Olympic legacy

UCL's visionary campus in East London is one step closer to completion after its new buildings reached their full height, or 'topped out', at a ceremony led by UCL President and Provost Dr Michael Spence. Dr Spence said the two UCL East structures, called Marshgate and Pool Street West, will be home to world-leading research from UCL that will 'inspire a generation'. Situated in East Bank on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, the buildings comprise 50,000 sqm, equivalent to around seven Wembley football pitches. They have been designed for teaching, research, retail and community engagement, as well as student living. The new campus will be a hub of creativity and collaboration between engineering, architecture, arts, humanities, social sciences, life sciences and population health studies. It will also be a world-class, climate resilient and low environmental impact development that promotes clean energy and enables low running costs and energy consumption. It will help reduce carbon emissions and contribute to and promote positive environmental outcomes throughout its design, construction and operation.