sep 20, 2021 - EFI building opens

Description:

The Edinburgh Futures Institute will move into its permanent home in the Old Royal Infirmary. The redeveloped building will provide 21,300 m² of floor space, 6000 of which will be new construction. The development will create a highly connected range of diverse accommodation: teaching and event spaces, major lecture halls, meeting rooms, and IT hubs.

The project will restore and connect six historically significant Nightingale wards and make use of the building’s unusually wide corridors to create space for informal encounters and break-out areas. Below the new public piazza, the development will create a generous multi-functional space for events and major lectures.

The new building will be accessible to staff, students and the general public, ensuring it lives up to the motto inscribed in stone on the building’s wall: “Patet Omnibus”. It means “Open to All”.

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