THE University of Lincoln’s Faculty of Business and Law has moved into a spectacular new building.

Staff and students have moved to a new home in a stunning £6m conversion of the former Lincolnshire Echo newspaper offices on the edge of the University’s main Brayford Pool Campus.

Features include a 250-seat lecture theatre, a 60-seat Harvard style lecture theatre, mock courtroom, language and IT lab and innovative learning lounges, designed to encourage interaction between undergraduates, postgraduates and staff.

The building also includes the Lincolnshire Leadership and Management Centre.

Dean of the Faculty of Business and Law, Professor David Head, said: “This superb building represents the University’s commitment to providing our students with the latest in teaching and learning facilities and our academic staff with enhanced opportunities for collaborative working and research.”

The official opening ceremony of the new Faculty building took place on Monday, January 24 where a plaque was unveiled, officially naming it the David Chiddick Building in honour of Lincoln’s former Vice Chancellor.

Professor Chiddick, who retired in autumn 2009 after nine years at Lincoln, was the special guest.

He said: “I simply cannot express adequately the enormous privilege and honour it is to have the latest building of the University of Lincoln named after me.

“As a retired Vice Chancellor, who is still passionate about the University, it is enormously satisfying to see it in good hands and continuing to make tremendous progress on so many fronts under the leadership of Professor Mary Stuart.”