Management structure

Estates and Facilities Directorate at the University of Wolverhampton

Estates and Facilities Directorate (E&FD) is an integral part in assisting the University to deliver its key University Strategic Objectives. E&FD supports the ethos of the University of Opportunity and its commitment to the regeneration of the City of Wolverhampton, business communities, and distributed learning centres.

E&FD offers a consistent, coherent and competitive service delivery across all activities on all campuses. This position delivers the optimum utilisation of resources, knowledge base and experience to facilitate an appropriate level of interaction with students, staff and visitors in order to meet their needs and aspirations. E&FD delivers to students a welcoming, secure and helpful environment in which to study, work and live.

Key values

  • Inclusive

We are welcoming, respectful, collegiate and supportive.

  • Ambitious

We are imaginative, confident, innovative and deliver excellence.

  • Accountable

We take pride in what we do and how we do it, take responsibility for our actions and operate with transparency and integrity.

  • Resilient

We have a positive outlook, we are adaptable and recover from setbacks.

  • To continue to provide improvements to the University campuses to enhance the student, staff, tenant and visitor experience and to create the best first impression for all and for the University to grow and develop as an institution of first choice in the region, nationally and internationally.
  • The continued delivery of major capital projects across all campuses.
  • To maintain the estate to provide good facilities to staff and students; to meet Condition and Legislative Compliance and reduce the backlog maintenance across all campuses.
  • To continue to deliver carbon reductions in line with government guidelines and the University’s policies.
  • To develop the business delivery of all services to serve the University community and provide third stream income from outside the University.
  • To support faculties’ growth and development plans in order for the University to achieve its strategic objectives.
  • For the University to be an anchor for regeneration initiatives with the City of Wolverhampton, Walsall and Telford, together with other centres across the region.

E&FD acknowledges that the University of Wolverhampton’s campuses are a vital element in symbolising what the University stands for: ‘Students First.’ E&FD seeks to consolidate what is good about the existing campuses and to create a vibrant, friendly place to study, work and live.

E&FD provides fit for purpose facilities within genuine campus communities, which will deliver focused improvements to deliver business performance that the University stakeholders will be proud of.

Key objectives of the directorate are as follows;

  • To continually review and benchmark service provision to ensure Estates & Facilities deliver services that put the Student First.
  • To deliver the long-term capital and annual maintenance programmes.
  • Ensure maximum usage of space by faculties.
  • To review and develop the sustainability goals for the University.

View our strategy 2035.

Estates and Facilities Directorate (E&FD):

Estates & Facilities - Interim Associate Director, Rob Gilbert

Facilities – Interim Associate Director, Stuart Rutty