Located in Sheffield Hallam University’s city campus, the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths) building supports the increased number of students studying in the department. The project works also include additional facilities for new chemical engineering provisions as an interdisciplinary collaboration between the Department of Engineering & Maths and Chemistry and Bio-Sciences. The facility created a publically accessible STEM environment as a resource for nurturing enterprising, work ready students in Science and Engineering, as a direct response to employer need and local and national economic policy drivers. Following the initial design development and planning approval undertaken by Watson Batty Architects, the team were novated to the Contractors, GEO Houlton Ltd, who completed the project in August 2016. The associated contract works included extensive refurbishment of the existing Sheaf and Eric Menforth buildings, as well as constructing a new atrium extension linking the two buildings. The total extent of the works provided 11,500 square metres of floor space dedicated to STEM teaching. Circulation within the Atrium is from feature stairs creating four distinctive zones; exhibition area, café, student help desk and a breakout area. The Atrium also has a feature entrance from Sheaf Street. The Sheaf Building has been fully refurbished creating modern teaching spaces with scale-up classes, flexible teaching areas and break out spaces.