page_title: University of Manchester
section_title: Major projects
hierarchical_section_title: University of Manchester / Campus / Major projects
context_page_description: The University of Manchester is a public research university in Manchester, England, formed in 2004 by the merger of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and the Victoria University of Manchester. The University of Manchester is a red brick university, a product of the civic university movement of the late 19th century.
  The main campus is south of Manchester city centre on Oxford Road. The university owns and operates major cultural assets such as the Manchester Museum, Whitworth Art Gallery, John Rylands Library and Jodrell Bank Observatory—a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
  In 2018/19, the university had 40,250 students and 10,400 staff, making it the second largest university in the UK, and the largest single-site university. The university had a consolidated income of £1.1 billion in 2018–19, of which £323.6 million was from research grants and contracts. It has the fifth-largest endowment of any university in the UK, after the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Edinburgh and King's. It is a member of the worldwide Universities Research Association, the Russell Group of British research universities and the N8 Group.
context_section_description: Following the merger, the university embarked on a £600 million programme of capital investment, to deliver eight new buildings and 15 major refurbishment projects by 2010, partly financed by a sale of unused assets. These include:
  £60 m Flagship University Place building (new)
  £56 m Alan Turing Building houses Mathematics, replaced Mathematics Tower. Home to the Photon Sciences Institute and the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics (new)
  £50 m Life Sciences Research Building (A. V. Hill Building) (new)
  £38 m Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB) (new)
  £33 m Life Sciences and Medical and Human Sciences Building (Michael Smith Building) (new)
  £31 m Humanities Building – now officially called the "Arthur Lewis Building" (new)
  £20 m Wolfson Molecular Imaging Centre (WMIC) (new)
  £18 m Re-location of School of Pharmacy
  £17 m John Rylands Library, Deansgate (extension & refurbishment of existing building)
  £13 m Chemistry Building
  £10 m Functional Biology Building
caption: The atrium inside the £38m Manchester Institute of Biotechnology
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