Operational Guide 2 Welcome to the New Academic Street (NAS) Precinct 4 Swanston Library 26 About this guide 5 Swanston Library Meeting and Project Rooms 27 Swanston Library Study Spaces 28 Precinct Maps 6 Level 2 7 NAS Retail Activation District 28 Level 3 7 RAD POD Pop-Up Spaces 29 Level 4 8 Pop-Up Space 1 29 Level 5 8 Pop-Up Space 2 29 Level 6 9 Pop-Up Space 3 29 Level 7 9 Pop-Up Space 4 29 Bookable Spaces 10 Retail Tenants – Level 2 30 Boost Juice 30 Access 12 Little Bang Espresso 30 — Opening hours 12 Retail Tenants – Level 3 31 Disabled access 12 Australian Co-op Bookstore 31 Lifts and escalators 12 Commonwealth Bank 31 Deliveries 12 RUSU Realfoods Cafe 32 Student Spaces 13 Retail Tenants – Level 4 32 Contents Australian Film Institute (AFI) Archives 14 Food Retail 32 Campus Store 14 Food Retail 33 Experience Design Centre (XDC) 15 Standing Room Coffee 33 Innovative Design Showcase (IDS) 15 Streat 34 Job Shop 16 Holy Guacamole 34 Maker Space 16 Food Retail 35 RMIT Connect 17 Food Retail 36 RUSU Activity Space 17 Food Retail 36 RUSU Central 18 Food Retail 36 Compass Drop In 18 Student Portals 19 Retail Tenants – Level 7 37 Coffee Cart 37 Media Precinct 20 Black Box Multimedia Space 21 Sustainability and Outdoor Spaces 38 Media Portal 21 Sustainability in NAS 39 Media Shop Front 22 Garden Building 40 RMIT @ Work 22 Rooftop Garden Terraces 40 Media Precinct Tech Office 23 Bowen Terrace 41 Media and Communication Sustainability Showcase 41 Teaching Spaces 23 TV Studios 24 Amenities and Facilities 42 TV Studio A 24 Security 43 TV Studio B 24 TV Studio C 25 Information Technology Services (ITS) 44 TV Studio D 25 ITS Support 44 TV Studio Control Rooms 25 Useful Contacts and Services 44 New Academic Street Operational Guide New Academic Street Operational Guide 3 4 — — Welcome to the About this New Academic Street guide (NAS) Precinct This guide’s purpose is to provide information about the NAS We took four ageing buildings in the heart of the City campus on Swanston Street and Precinct’s day-to-day operation. created an exciting, mixed-use environment, incorporating learning and social spaces. Useful links within the document World-class teaching facilities sit The New Academic Street will also You have continued to deliver world- provide efficient and up-to-date alongside spaces where our students give RMIT students the opportunity class education programs while information from Property can relax, eat and even showcase their to gain experience running a business the City campus has been transformed work to the public. inside our Retail Activation District and your efforts are greatly Services, Information Technology (RAD) through Pop-Up Shop spaces appreciated. Thanks also to all of our Services, Events and other RMIT Formed in collaboration with students, designed to allow students to students who have endured more than University resources. staff and alumni, the NAS Project showcase and sell their wares. The 12 months of construction with the shows what’s possible when we new food and beverage and retail knowledge that the NAS Project will The Guide can also assist with information about: harness our collective talents and precinct will also feature an appealing allow RMIT to provide an improved passion: RMIT-trained architects – Available meeting and event spaces mix of reasonably priced food outlets transformative student experience – created spaces that will inspire and retail shops. getting them ready for life and work – Room booking processes and engage; during construction with improved facilities, connections – Emergency and security procedures our current photography students There will be more than 13,000 square and spaces. captured every stage of the process metres of new Library, Media Precinct, – Retail and catering in stunning detail; architecture and open-air terraces and balconies, So make sure you make the most – Facility management practices, security and interior design students envisaged their mixed retail and 2800 student seats of the new spaces, the light, the waste processes very own ‘Maker Space’; computer being handed back to students in connection to the city and new food – A healthy work environment science students coded an app to early 2017. I am thrilled with what we and beverage options as they become showcase the new spaces; and have achieved so far and am looking available in early 2017. scores of students from fields as forward to what’s yet to come when Professor Peter Coloe diverse as engineering, advertising and the final stage – including new Student Pro Vice-Chancellor Science, media contributed through the Work Spaces, the Garden Building and new Engineering and Health Integrated Learning (WIL) programs Retail Spaces in Building 14 – opening and Vice-President run throughout. later in the year. I am confident that we are creating spaces where students The result is an exciting environment and staff alike will come to learn, that will enhance the student collaborate and socialise. experience, promote interaction with the wider community and help Thanks to so many staff members contribute to urban sustainability who have been resilient, flexible and within the City of Melbourne. when required extremely tolerant while construction works have been under way. 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