{"id":1191,"date":"2020-02-19T12:42:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T12:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2020-02-19T12:54:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T12:54:59","slug":"buildings-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2020\/02\/19\/buildings-news\/","title":{"rendered":"BUILDINGS NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;font-size: 10pt\">Congratulations to the Department of Engineering, which on 12 February announced details of major investment by the University, including another new building, next to the previous new building, featuring a &#8216;3D lecture theatre&#8217; \u00a0(the third dimension makes all the difference, we hear) and several new labs:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/sci-tech\/about-us\/news\/new-building-at-heart-of-major-investment-into-engineering-at-lancaster-university\"><span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;font-size: 10pt\">https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/sci-tech\/about-us\/news\/new-building-at-heart-of-major-investment-into-engineering-at-lancaster-university<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;font-size: 10pt\">Some might wonder whether a truly far-sighted organisation would have predicted the need for a large dedicated lecture theatre back in 2013, when the soon-to-be-old new Engineering Building was being constructed, but hindsight is 20:20.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;font-size: 10pt\">One thing the new building will need is a name &#8211; it was confusing enough when there was the old Engineering Building (now known as the FST Building, despite our attempts to give it a more exciting name in subtext 130) and the new Engineering Building, but now there will be two new Engineering Buildings, one of them is going to need a suitably well-engineered title &#8211; we&#8217;ll pass on any suggestions we receive.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to the Department of Engineering, which on 12 February announced details of major investment by the University, including another new building, next to the previous new building, featuring a &#8216;3D lecture theatre&#8217; \u00a0(the third dimension makes all the difference, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2020\/02\/19\/buildings-news\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[185,562,557],"class_list":["post-1191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-building-work","tag-engineering","tag-issue-192"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99sHo-jd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":293,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/01\/18\/nurse-the-screens\/","url_meta":{"origin":1191,"position":0},"title":"NURSE, THE SCREENS!","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"January 18 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Campus is currently full of temporary screens erected to shield sensitive eyes from the building work going on behind them. 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