McIntyre House offers students a high quality food and drink experience.
Complete with a Starbucks, EatSpace café on the ground floor is hugely popular, selling breakfasts, lunches, snacks and drinks.
With a spacious dining and seating area, the café adjoins a landscaped courtyard in the heart of the city’s famous Jewellery Quarter.
You can also dine out on McIntyre House’s rooftop terrace, which has seating, plants and a water feature and offers panoramic views across the city centre. You can pick out landmarks including St Paul’s Square, the BT Tower and the Library of Birmingham.
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Our £26 million McIntyre House in Holland Street in Birmingham’s historic Jewellery Quarter is a dedicated centre for undergraduate and postgraduate studies at UCB.
Opened in 2014 as the first phase of a £100m investment into our facilities, the four-storey building is within a short walking distance of our Summer Row and Richmond House campuses and a stone’s throw from the new Moss House campus site.
The building is named after former UCB Principal Dr Eddie McIntyre CBE in recognition of his huge contribution to the development of the University.
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Winning a Royal Institute of British Architects award in 2016, McIntyre House’s stunning design is underpinned by the latest technology, a high-specification fit out, impressive functionality and cutting-edge environmental features. These include:
Successful, specialist degrees require the very best learning environments and McIntyre House has a wide range of learning spaces, all with Wi-Fi.
Teaching facilitiesMcIntyre House has two 126-seat lecture theatres and a 250-seat flagship lecture theatre, The Brendan Carroll Lecture Theatre, which is the University’s biggest.
There are also seminar rooms, comfortable tutorial studies, private meeting rooms and social learning spaces with specially-equipped pods with audio visual capability.
With a bold colour scheme, ThinkSpace, on the ground floor, has glazed study pods for group work such as presentation preparation and project planning.
There are also more than 120 PCs available for students to use throughout the building.
Exhibition spaceEncouraging creativity and ingenuity, there is a modern exhibition space at McIntyre House for students to showcase their projects to assessors and prospective employers.
The exhibition space is also frequently used for community events, including the Jewellery Quarter Development Trust’s annual jazz festival.
McIntyre House also houses two major pieces of public art by renowned sculptor Lorenzo Quinn, selected for being rich in symbolism relating to the generation of ideas.
Break-out areasThere is a selection of break-out spaces on all floors of McIntyre House for informal discussions or a quick catch-up with colleagues and lecturers.
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On the first floor, you’ll find The Edward Pargeter Suite, a dedicated study centre for postgraduates. This contains:
Students can expect a high quality food and drink experience that reflects modern day demand at Moss House. Eating spaces will include:
Our new, £42 million campus for higher education opens in 2020 as part of £130 million investment into our facilities, giving students the best university experience possible.
Moss House - named in honour of Nigel Moss, Chancellor of the University Corporation – is currently being built in Holland Street in Birmingham’s famous Jewellery Quarter, a stone’s throw from our McIntyre House and Summer Row campuses.
Designed to reflect the architectural heritage of the area with exposed concrete surfaces combined with stunning wooden features, Moss House will, ultimately, provide even more opportunities for students to excel during their time at UCB.
Moss House in progressTake a look at how our Moss House building is taking shape throughout the months.
January 2018: The Lodge Cottrell building will make way for the new Moss House.
February 2018: Demolition and groundworks complete. Let construction commence…
March 2018: Taking things to new heights. The tower crane goes up in Holland Street.
April 2018: First preparations – erecting a fence all the way down George Street to widen construction area.
April 2018: More site preparations underway. Looking up George Street towards Newhall Street.
May 2018: Building materials start to arrive on a beautiful Birmingham morning.
May 2018: Laying the foundations. First slab concrete poured.
May 2018: Going up. Preparing for the next foundation concrete pour.
June 2018: Another scorchio day and things are rising rapidly. We now have a first floor.
June 2018: First floor level progressing well.
July 2018: Another floor and Moss House becomes part of the Jewellery Quarter fabric.
July 2018: Looking out at Moss House from the second floor of McIntyre House.
August 2018: Looking up at third floor of Moss House from the corner of McIntyre House.
August 2018: Things are really coming on now.
August 2018: Third floor level on the rise.
October 2018: And up we go again – fourth storey gets underway.
October 2018: More materials arrive as work starts on fourth storey.
November 2018: Internal structure taking shape – what features will be here on completion?
November 2018: Internal walls going in – classroom, lecture theatre, sports facilities, perhaps?
November 2018: Striking in progress - removing the formwork around the newly-cast concrete.
January 2019 Outer this world! – ready to start on the façade to the left hand side of the building.
January 2019: On a cold day under blue skies, we get our first glimpse of Moss House’s brick façade.
February 2019: After a freezing cold start, we saw temperatures jump into the teens – up on the roof looking out at Brum and blue skies.
February 2019: Contractors discuss next stages of the build as external façade gets underway – looking out at St Paul’s Church.
February 2019: With the teaching block structure now complete, the internal fit-out is officially in full swing.
June 2019: What's going on inside? Looking over at Moss House from McIntyre House, a stone's throw from one another.
Aug 2019: As building work moves inside, we see how natural light will flood into the roof of Moss House.
Aug 2019: Concrete floor now ready for a 35-metre indoor running track for speed and strength work.
Aug 2019: Great view of buildings on George Street from one of the new, light and airy teaching rooms
Aug 2019: The main staircase and a relaxed seating area to the right start to take shape.
Aug 2019: Workers start construction on the reception area, bottom right.
Nov 2019: The floor to the Human Performance Lab for students on sports-related courses starts to go down at Moss House
Nov 2019: Looking in on our new sports facilities, including a strength and conditioning gym with six racks, large rig and changing facilities.
Nov 2019: The nearly-ready Human Performance Lab will be a huge asset to enable sports students to monitor and evaluate athletes.
Jan 2020: Exciting to be looking up the central staircase and through the roof window.
Jan 2020: Very soon, streams of students will be making their way through the turnstiles.
Jan 2020: Wow! This really is at the cutting edge of contemporary design.
Jan 2020: The Living Room will be a place to have a bite to eat and take some time out.
Jan 2020: Looking down from the second floor into the foyer – a great view.
Jan 2020: Lots of natural wood interspersed with recessed lights makes this building special.
Jan 2020: Getting ready to officially open one of our Moss House lecture theatres.
Jan 2020: Unpacking more gym equipment for our new state-of-the-art sports facilities.
Jan 2020: The latest in cross trainers, rowers and treadmills settle into their new home.
The highly competitive industry of professional sport demands the best talent and Moss House will ensure students on sports-related degrees have every opportunity to excel.
Providing the most relevant, up-to-date experience, the new sports facilities will include:
Moss House will have an impressive, diverse selection of learning spaces, all with Wi-Fi.
Teaching facilitiesThere will be three 100-seat lecture theatres and 17 classrooms across two floors, as well as health and social care practical and simulation suites to replicate real-life scenarios.
Exhibition spaceThere will be a modern exhibition space at Moss House for students to showcase their projects to assessors and prospective employers, as well as curated work.
Moss House will also cater for the Jewellery Quarter community, putting on displays staged by local artists and craft workers, and hosting events on their behalf.
Break-out areasThere will be break-out spaces and semi-formal meeting areas for students and staff to discuss assignments and projects, while Moss House will also be the higher education home of the University’s Guild of Students.
hired@UCBMoss House will house hired@UCB, UCB’s careers, placements and employability service for students and alumni.
Our team of specialist and qualified staff have the knowledge and experience to recognise and build the skills needed to be successful in the world of work.
