The campus is officially known as Danala | Education and Community Precinct.
Danala, the Larrakia name for dillybag, represents a place to house knowledge.
Danala will bring students, visitors, academics and other community members together to learn and grow in a place that strongly recognises First Nations people, culture, language and customs in place-naming.
It is also known as the CDU City Campus.
The Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) fully approved a loan up to $151.5 million to support the university’s growth into the Darwin City Deal’s Education and Community Precinct.
Later in the year, CDU released the design tender for the Precinct outlined design principles that will help create contemporary learning spaces in an iconic building designed to incorporate the latest environmental technology and science.
Main construction at the Education and Community Precinct site on the corner of Garramilla Boulevard and Cavenagh Street commences.
The final design was also released, with a focus on mitigating heat, sustainable infrastructure and open collaborative spaces to benefit staff, students and the community.
Construction continues on-site with an estimated completion date of early 2024.
Concrete slabs have been poured for both basements and the first two levels, with formwork including lift cores and stairwells progressing to level three and scaffolding reaching level four. Both tower cranes and the concrete tower pump are now in operation.
In June 2023, the main infrastructure works were completed and celebrated in a ‘Topping Out’ ceremony.
The city campus is currently being fitted out with walls and ceilings progressing internally, the external façade and roofing works continue to make visible progress, and external landscaping and public realm works have also commenced.
With the building now sealed against the coming wet weather, works continue with services fit-out, civil and drainage works, hard landscaping, general architectural finishes, metal works and roofing works.
It is expected the new campus will be open later in 2024, with teaching planned to commence in summer semester.
