New LUMS building commemorates first Lancaster Vice-Chancellor
Published 23 July 2010
Lancaster University Management School's new building has been named after Sir Charles Carter, who was Lancaster’s first Vice-Chancellor between 1963 and 1979.
Professor Trevor McMillan (Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research) and Professor Sue Cox (Dean of LUMS) with Director of Facilities Mark Swindlehurst.
Sir Charles Carter, a distinguished economist, was instrumental and far-sighted in ensuring that the University included management subjects within its portfolio, at a time when they were still new to most universities. Now LUMS is a leading business school, ranked consistently among the UK's top five.
LUMS combines excellence in research with a student-centred campus, and a full spectrum of undergraduate, postgraduate, PhD and executive programmes – a unique combination amongst leading schools.
The new building provides lecture theatres, seminar rooms, and offices for staff and students for some key departments in LUMS – Marketing; Organisation, Work and Technology; Management Learning and Leadership; and the Centre for Performance-Led HR.
Lancaster University aims to ensure that it new buildings are designed and built to the highest environmental standards, with features designed to reduce energy use throughout the heating, ventilation, cooling and lighting systems. The Charles Carter building is on track to follow the RIBA Award-winning Postgraduate Statistics Centre and others at Lancaster, which have all secured BREEAM Excellent ratings.
Architect's impression of the new Charles Carter building, with its outlook to George Fox Square. The building is due to be completed in December 2010.
