30th October 2019 Wednesday Tour of the campus

Salford University has a quiet room with a long name in which the silence is such you can hear the blood in your veins. It has an energy house that was taken brick by brick and rebuilt in the basement of one of the buildings where new developments in energy technology are tested for load bearing. They put the new Solar panel on the roof and blow gale force rain or snow and sleet at it -  all artificially and computer generated. They have estate of the art laboratories  and class rooms with TVs visible by every student regardless of which corner there are in the room, the cameras and microphones show exactly what the lecturer is doing. Most importantly not only to they have multiple Costa coffee stations but they have a Starbucks. Having said that I haven’t been there yet, it’s been too busy. Yesterday the lectures were exhausting - how to do research - qualitative in the morning and quantitative in the afternoon. The highlight though was after the day was done, we went to the Bloomberg room. Worked with computers that have the software used by the financial traders. Absolutely awesome.

view from my Airbnb