• Swindon & Wiltshire Property
• Tuesday September 23 2025

Bristol Uni starts countdown to new Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus opening

The University of Bristol has started the countdown to the opening of its new Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus.

Launching in September 2026, the campus will be the catalyst for the UK’s largest regeneration project, Bristol Temple Quarter.

The flagship 38,000 square metre academic building, which will house 4,600 students and 650 staff, is on the site of the former Royal Mail sorting office next to Bristol Temple Meads railway station.

It will be home to world-class teaching and research across business, innovation, digital engineering, artificial intelligence, quantum and more.

More than just a physical space, it will deliver a transformative, interdisciplinary approach to innovation – and it will help start-ups, scale-ups and corporations gain access to the world-class research expertise and entrepreneurial talent from all faculties at the University of Bristol.

It will house the Bristol Innovations Zone (BIZ), a dedicated space for around 300 enterprise partners, providing flexible co-working and event spaces, specialist labs, state-of-the-art equipment, skills training, support services and events.

Over 450 people are regularly working on the site every day. One thousand glass panels and 750 solar panels have been installed, with 25,000m² of walls having been plastered and more than 63,000 floor tiles installed to date. Outside, 130 trees are being planted.

Professor Evelyn Welch, vice-chancellor and president of the University of Bristol, said: “Excitement is really building now as we enter the final 12-month journey before our fantastic new campus finally opens its doors.

“Since we signed contracts with developers Sir Robert McAlpine in April 2023, the new building has risen from the ground and is already looking amazing. “