Shard Campus
This £2.29m Warwick Business School (WBS) project has given the University a presence in London.
Following an extensive search, we identified the Shard as the preferred building due to its profile and its location. It offers a connection with both Canary Wharf and the City.
The employer's requirement was well established prior to tendering the construction. The project was programmed for twelve weeks, but it was delivered in ten.
Features
Excellent connections with Canary Wharf and the rest of London
The Shard is the tallest building in western Europe at 309.6m
Designed to achieve a BREEAM rating of "Excellent"
In their words...
This is a very exciting development for the School and to take premises in one of London’s most iconic buildings is a tremendous moment for Warwick.
London is one of the great capitals of the world and a global financial centre, so it seems only right that one of Europe’s top business schools should have a presence there. We will bring our academic excellence to London to help form the business leaders and the City’s professionals of the future.
Our MSc Finance course is ranked number one in the UK and the Warwick Executive MBA is firmly in the world’s top 25.
The University of Warwick has a great history of being entrepreneurial and a world innovator, and this move to The Shard continues that spirit of enterprise and ambition to do things differently.
The Shard is a spectacular sight on the London skyline and is a fitting base for Warwick Business School, which has creativity at the heart of its business teachings.
We want to become the leading university-based business school in Europe and a base at The Shard will be another step towards that,” said Professor Taylor, who worked in the City as a managing director for BlackRock before taking over as Dean at WBS in 2010.
We are already in Europe’s top bracket, but we want to keep pushing upwards and a presence in London will help us do that. Our mission is to produce and disseminate world-class research and world-class business leaders, plus provide a lifelong return on investment for our students and alumni.
WBS Dean Mark Taylor, who worked in the City as a managing director for BlackRock before taking over as Dean at WBS in 2010