8.3 Physical Facilities
UD new campus in Dubai Academic city is working from November 2015. The space is rented by the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI). UD new campus include three buildings: The main center, Dubai Business School and College of Engineering and IT. Currently, DBS include office of both GUCR and College of Law faculty members.
The UD’s new campus has insured for all its colleges suffice state of the art infra-structure and physical resources. There are 28 classrooms, which collectively can accommodate up to 1212 students at any given time. The capacity of the classrooms varies between 15 and 40 students. These rooms are very adequate to run the LLM lectures taking into account that the average number of students in any class is normally about 10 students. Thus, we have a surplus of teaching facilities. See Table below for more details on University Physical Teaching Spaces.
Table showing University Physical Teaching Spaces
| Class Type |
Number |
Capacity (Seats) |
| Classroom |
28 |
851 |
| Computer Lab |
9 |
176 |
| Meeting Room |
1 |
15 |
| Network Lab |
1 |
20 |
| Physics Lab |
2 |
40 |
| Seminar room |
7 |
60 |
| Small Auditorium |
1 |
50 |
| Grand Total |
49 |
1212 |
UD has a spacious Campus employing modern/state-of the art technology based Green Buildings wherein adequate parking areas in front of every UD building. Currently, UD is developing a solar powered parking area in front of UD main center.
The UD campus also hosts both male and female students with facilities available to accommodate the students’ needs including the availability of (i)Majlis area as private resting room for female students (ii) parking areas in front of each building to accommodate persons of special needs/disabilities as well (iii)spacious elevators to ease their movement across campus and (iv) a number of Emirates Civil Defense Academy trained UD staff to deal with emergencies/a crisis such as Fire (i.e., on the safety of UD community) with Evacuation plans posted at several locations of UD.