Estates and Campus Services

About us

The Estates and Campus Services department supports the day to day running of the University’s land and buildings. Our main campus is home to a diverse range of spaces including teaching and learning environments, a refectory and café, a chapel and multi-faith rooms, staff offices, sports fields, a theatre, a fitness centre and approximately 670 student bedrooms. Our work supporting this is extremely varied and covers:

• Capital projects, refurbishments and construction
• Catering
• Estate management
• Grounds and gardens
• Health and safety
• Housekeeping and Campus Services
• Facilities management and maintenance
• Timetabling
• Security
• Car and cycle parking
• Postal services
• Waste and recycling
• Sustainability

Online forms for waste collection and key cutting

What we have done

Some of the highlights of the last few years include:

• Old House – refurbishment of 92 student bedrooms
• Dolce Vita - a new catering provision through Tchibo, providing sustainable quality coffee and food.
• Sports lighting – installation of new LED floodlights
• Commuter lounge – a space for visitors to relax
• 24 hours library – a comfortable new study space
• Car and cycle parking improvements – provision of extra cycle spaces and student parking at our campuses with an easy to use parking payment app
• New physio teaching rooms at 60 Waldegrave Road
• Opening of a new Student hub in the Library
• Refurbishment of the toilets close to main reception. This includes a new gender neutral facility, shower room, baby feeding room and a Changing Places facility 

What we plan to do

We are planning further improvements across our estate including:

• We have started work on our Student Heart project with completion of the first phase in early 2022
• Further student bedrooms refurbishments
• Improving accessibility to the Waldegrave Suite

Who we are

The department is led by Chris Paget, Director of Estates and Campus Services supported by a dedicated and experienced team. We welcome any feedback so if you have any comments or suggestions, please let us know at estates@stmarys.ac.uk

And finally…

Here’s some facts and figures about our campuses and what we do:

• We have over 40,000 square meters of floor space in approximately 50 separate buildings
• This includes over 100 separate teaching spaces providing nearly 4,000 desk or equivalent spaces for students (pre-Covid)
• Our green space covers 12 acres on our main campus and a further 12 acres at Teddington Lock all of which is the equivalent of 12 full sized football pitches
• There are over 700 trees at our sites, the majority of which have protected status
• We provide 290 car spaces and 200 cycle spaces across our sites
• We have our own team of skilled plumbers, electricians, carpenters and groundsmen
• On average they receive approximately 6,000 job requests each year, roughly equally divided between plumbing, electrical and carpentry work with another 300 key cutting requests