Building openings

Ceremonies past and in progress include:

  • The Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities – ceremonies to mark the groundbreaking, the foundations being laid, and the topping out of the building.  Currently working on the official opening ceremony scheduled for 2025.
  • The Life & Mind Building - ceremonies to mark the groundbreaking and topping out, currently working on the official opening ceremony scheduled for 2025.
  • Managing the opening of the Beecroft Building (Physics Department) by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
  • Coordinating the official openings by HRH the Duke of Cambridge, of the Blavatnik School of Government, the Weston Library, and the newly renovated Longwall Library at Magdalen College.
  • Organising the topping out ceremony and opening of The Big Data Institute (Phase 2 of the Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery and the Nuffield Department of Population Health extension).
  • Managing the opening of the Ruskin School of Art building on Bullingdon Road

We also consult on building related events – these have included the groundbreaking ceremony for the Institute of Developmental and Regenerative Medicine (IDRM), the opening of the Department of Statistics Building, a celebration to make the final stage of the Botnar Research Centre, and the official opening of the Dickson Poon Oxford China Centre.
 

How we can help

If you are organising your own building event and would like the events office support, please contact us at the start of the planning process.  We are also happy to provide advice, particularly around protocol, for these kinds of events: contact us.

 

Contact us


Events Office

events.office@admin.ox.ac.uk

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