Babbage Building: where engineering meets design
The £63 million Babbage Building will create a state-of-the-art space to inspire the engineering and design pioneers of the future

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After being on the site visit today, I really hope it promotes the University of Plymouth to everyone around, including all the women and young girls out there that may be afraid to go into the industry. It might help them to realise that it's accessible to everyone.
My first impression of the Babbage site is how big the building is, how big the scale is, and all the new facilities the University is going to be putting in it. It's really exciting. It's all really high-tech equipment that they're going to be housing in here.
This place is going to be an absolute home for me. I'm going to be able to come in here, do my dissertation, and learn more from the excellent professors that we have here. Currently, the facilities are all so excellent, but this is the next step forward.
“It will be a great collaborative space between all the different design disciplines including engineering.”
The Babbage Building's superb spaces and facilities will encourage the creation and exchange of ideas between students across all disciplines, reflecting 21st-century working practices and the expectations of today's employers. This major investment to develop first-class teaching spaces, research facilities and laboratories reflects the successes of our STEM community; it will strengthen our relationships with industrial partners and will support the University in its mission to advance knowledge and transform lives.
Plymouth is undergoing something of a creative revolution. It is bringing design and digital innovation to the fore and ensuring the city’s creative sector can offer new opportunities, spaces and skills. This new facility will enhance the University’s place at the forefront of that, and mean we can continue to attract and nurture the design stars of the future.
This is a landmark project that will have a number of significant benefits for the University and wider community. Over the past decade and more, we have invested in our estate and created outstanding research and teaching facilities in the arts and health, ocean science and sustainability. This project will enable us to build on our existing expertise in engineering and design, and provide staff and students with a facility that matches their aspirations and enables them to push the boundaries in addressing real-world challenges.