Oxford City Tour 2019

As part of the module - Introduction to Design and Construction the first year students in construction went on the Oxford City Tour on 25 September 2019. The purpose of the tour was to familiarise the students with major buildings in the city of Oxford - many of which are studied during the first year of the BSc Construction Project Management and the BSc QS and Commercial Management. I followed the students around on the tour and took some photos (click on the blue links for more information on buildings)...

On the High Street where the task was to compare styles of buildings - this is The Queen's College

Looking down the High Street to University College

...and All Souls College

Back on the High Street heading towards...

St Mary's Church (and its tower) - Gothic or Classical?

Approaching Radcliffe Camera where the students were asked to work out the cost and logistics of repairing stone work

Found a few Harry Potter fans at the entrance to the Bodleian Library

The Bodleian Library

Group shot inside the beautiful...

...Divinity School where the students learnt about stone fan vaulting

The Clarendon Building

The 'Emperor Heads' outside the Sheldonian Theatre

The Museum of Natural History - find out more about this building

And you can stroke the animals :)

As well as being full of amazing stuff - the building has an amazing roof. The students were there to learn about geology, use of stone, cast iron and steel and the glass roof

It's also home to the Pitt Rivers Museum

The Beecroft Building - which has the deepest basement in Oxford

Walking across to the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter

The Blavatnik School of Government where the students found out about thermal performance of the building

It's not normally open to the public, but we had special permission to go inside...

Walking down through Walton Street in Jericho an area north of the City

Jericho

The Ashmolean Museum

And onto Cornmarket. This is the oldest building which is a Tudor timber frame building...

...there is a major redevelopment taking place further up Cornmarket

Walking down Queen Street towards Westgate where there was lots to find out about how it was constructed

Westgate Shopping Centre - a major new development for Oxford

And that is the end of the tour. ust time for some people watching and lunch in Westgate. For more information about the undergraduate degree courses in construction take a look at our website.