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Self-Guided Tour of the King's Buildings Campus 24 42 To the Royal Observatory 67 Mayfield Road 38 GATE 1 41 To the GATE 2 24 38 West Mains Road University 42 41 38 Central Area 67 Max Born Crescent Born Max James Dewar Road West Mains Road Esslemont Road 38 DP P James Hutton Road To Edinburgh BioQuarter DP DP C 41 DP 4 2 GATE 3 8 DP 1* Max Born Crescent DP * Road Brown Crum Alexander P Hallhead Road P N 3 67 P KB Robert Stevenson Road Square P Mayfield Road DP P Colin Maclaurin Road 67 Nucleus C P 5 development 16 C P Ross Road 9 GATE 4 Marion Ross Road P DP DP Thomas Bayes Road DP 15 P P11 Self-guided tour Max Born Crescent P DP 7 P 6 Max Born Crescent King’s Buildings campus DP C DP 13 14 DP Road Tait Peter Guthrie 10 and surrounding area Nicholas Kemmer Road DP New biology P development C 12 A warm welcome to the University of Edinburgh and the city of Edinburgh. ONE-WAY EXIT This tour is for King’s Buildings, the University’s second largest campus. Subjects within the College of Science and Engineering are taught here. DP The student union is also open for all students at the University. This tour takes you in a circle, so whichever number you start at will allow Max Born Crescent you to complete the full tour. The recommended starting points are from the main entrance outside Ashworth Laboratories (Starting Point 1), near Mayfield Road where buses 24, 42 and 67 stop, or from the King’s King’s Buildings campus map key 1 Starting Point 1 - Ashworth Laboratories Buildings bus stop (Starting Point 2), where the number 41 bus drops off. Starting point 1 Facilities/Services The best place to begin the tour is on the north east corner outside the The tour should take no more than an hour if walking at a leisurely pace, with 1 11 Lothian Bus Stop Ashworth Laboratories, where the main entrance to King’s Buildings lies. time to take in the main buildings and facilities on campus. Add on 20 minutes Ashworth Laboratories Alexander Graham Bell & * William Rankine Buildings This building is used by the School of Biological Sciences. if you wish to include Blackford Hill for The Royal Observatory Edinburgh. 2 Grant Institute C Refreshments Evolutionary biology, immunology and infection research is carried out 12 Swann & Darwin Buildings in the Ashworth Laboratories, the home of the Centre for Immunology, Directions to the campus from the city centre are on the back of this leaflet. 3 KB House Wheelchair Access Infection and Evolution. The Aubrey Manning Gallery houses part of the You can also use the postcode EH9 3JT to find your way via a map app/site. 13 Alrick & Faraday Buildings 4 Joseph Black Building 1 Ashworth Building University’s collection of natural history specimens. A map showing accessible routes and entrances can be downloaded from: P Permit Parking 14 Daniel Rutherford2 and John Murray Building www.ed.ac.uk/estates/buildings-information/disability 5 Crew Building CH Waddington Buildings 3 MarchDP BuildingDisabled Parking 2 Grant Institute 6 FloWave 15 Hudson Beare & 4 Mary BruckBike Buildingracks Take the path to the right, where you will pass a two storey building on 7 Fleeming Jenkin Buildings Roger Land Building 5 John Muir Building your left. This is the Grant Institute, where the School of Geosciences is Student Recruitment & Admissions Starting point 2 16 Sanderson Building6 Engineering Structures Lab based. The University of Edinburgh 8 Murchison House Other buildings 7 Sanderson Building The building was named after its donor Alexander Grant, creator of the 33 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9JS * popular McVitie’s Digestive biscuit! At the Grant Institute the subjects 17 www.ed.ac.uk/student-recruitment 9 Noreen and Kenneth Blackford Hill - The8 RoyalHudson Beare Building Geology, Geophysics, and Environmental Geosciences are housed. It has a Murray Library Observatory, Edinburgh If you require this document in an alternative format, such as large print, 9 Hudson Beare Lecture Theatre number of research facilities, including a high-tech microanalytical facility please contact: [email protected] 10 James Clerk Maxwell 10 Faraday Building where students can analyse rocks, minerals and fluids and measure the Building physical properties of rocks. The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336 11 Alrick Building 12 Fleeming Jenkin Building 13 William Rankine Building 14 Alexander Graham Bell Building 15 Daniel Rutherford Building 16 Waddington Building 17 Darwin Building 18 Swann Building 19 James Clerk Maxwell Building; Learning and Teaching Cluster 20 Erskine Williamson Building 21 Estates Hub 22 Peter Wilson Building (SRUC) Access to this building’s car park must be via Gate 1 23 Roger Land Building 24 Scottish Microelectronics Centre 25 FloWave Ocean Energy Research Facility 26 Crew Laboratory 27 Crew Building 28 UK Biochar Research Centre 29 Crew Annex 30 Murchison House 31 Student accommodation 32 Arcadia Nursery 33 Joseph Black Building 34 Christina Miller Building 35 The Noreen and Kenneth Murray Library 36 KB House: EUSA 37 Grant Institute P Permit parking C Cafe S Shop Webdings font Electric car charging point 3 King’s Buildings House 8 Murchison House 13 Alrick and Faraday Buildings Continuing down past the Grant Institute, take the steps on the left Continue straight ahead, passing the bus stop, until you reach Across the road from the Swann and Darwin Buildings is the Alrick by the lamppost and follow the path to the zebra crossing. Ahead of Murchison House. Building. Immediately behind it, tucked away, is the Faraday Building. you is King’s Buildings House, the campus student union. The former British Geological Survey building, has had an extensive The Alrick and Faraday Buildings are home to marine renewables and Run by the Edinburgh University Students’ Association, King’s refurbishment, turning it into a multi-functional building with an energy systems research. Edinburgh has a long tradition of wave energy Buildings House. There are a number of catering options, as well as a open-plan teaching hub alongside study spaces, lecture theatres, production from Stephen Salters’s work in the early 1970’s - including shop and the KB Gym which includes badminton and squash courts. exhibition spaces. You’ll find a Student Information Point, the Careers Salter’s Duck. The new FloWave tank on campus supplements this Here there is a branch of The Advice Place, offering students free, Service, the Student Counselling Service and Elements Cafe all research by enabling large scale testing of marine energy devices. impartial and confidential information on anything and everything. located on the ground floor. Murchison is also home to administrative services for the College of Science & Engineering including 14 Daniel Rutherford and CH Waddington Building 4 Joseph Black Building Recruitment & Admissions and Academic Affairs. Continue straight on. After the Swann and Darwin Building on your right Follow the other path back towards the main road and turn left down 189 The Noreen and Kenneth Murray Library is the Daniel Rutherford Building, used solely by the School of Biological David Brewster Road. Stop at the large red brick building on the left. Sciences. Interconnected behind it is the CH Waddington Building. This is the Joseph Black Building, home to the School of Chemistry. From the bus stop walk down past Joseph Black building and turn The Rutherford Building houses research in plant cell biology to understand processes in King George V laid the foundation stone for this building in 1920, right to head into KB Square, with KB House on your left. Ahead, on plant growth, development and immunity that underpin research in plant biotechnology. making it the earliest building on campus. It has developed over the the left, is the Noreen and Kenneth Murray Library. The Waddington Building houses SynthSys, the Centre for Synthetic and Systems Biology. decades into a state-of-the-art facility for all modern branches of Opened in 2012, it is named after the late Professor Noreen Murray Research is multidisciplinary and aims to understand and re-design biochemical systems. Chemistry. New teaching laboratories are used by undergraduates and Professor Sir Ken Murray, who both worked in the School of and for cutting-edge research into nano-technology, protein structure Biological Sciences. The ground floor has the KB Café, and the upper 15 Hudson Beare and Fleeming Jenkin Building and function, drug discovery, battery as well as fuel cell materials. floors have study spaces, a roof terrace, helpdesk and collections. Cross to the opposite side of the road from the Rutherford Building, To the east of the library is The Nucleus. Located at the heart of the campus this will be a then take a left through the gardens and walk along the path 5 Crew Building hub for students and staff, with five lecture theatres, teaching studios, group study spaces parallel to the main road. On your left hand side you will see the and event spaces. Due for completion in 2022, the Nucleus will connect to the Noreen interconnected Hudson Beare and Fleeming Jenkin buildings. Hudson Turn left at the pedestrian crossing by the nursery and head up and Kenneth Murray Library and KB House. Alexander Crum Brown Road. On your right you will see a grey building Beare is the centre of the School of Engineering, while research is with steps up to it’s entrance - this is the Crew Building, used by the carried out in the Fleeming Jenkin Building. James Clerk Maxwell Building School of GeoSciences. 10 The Hudson Beare Building is home to four Engineering classrooms and a lecture theatre.
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