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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:

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