B-made Induction and workshop information

On this page:

• B-made Induction
• Schedule
• Returning users and lost cards
• B-made workshop facilities
• Health & Safety
• Contact and further resources

B-made Induction

The B-made Induction is completed in two steps, first online then in-person. Access to B-made is only granted to current Bartlett students and staff who have completed B-made's two-step Induction process. Returning inducted users can 'refresh' their workshop cards in the B-made Hub.

Step 1: Moodle

Step 1 of the B-made Induction, the online Moodle course, consists of a series of interactive videos and quizzes covering the essential technical skills training required to safely and effectively use B-made's workshop facilities. Bartlett School of Architecture students are automatically enrolled at the beginning of the academic year. Please contact us if you are a member of staff who would like to be enrolled.

B-made Moodle page

Step 2: in-person training

Sign up for Step 2, the in-person training on the Moodle page. Sign up is first-come, first-served. The induction schedule disrupts access for workshop users, so please ensure you sign up as soon as possible as there are limited sessions in each term. Additional opportunities to get inducted are offered at the start of each term, so please ask your tutor about anticipated use of B-made facilities within your module or programme. Inducted workshop users will be issued a B-made workshop card. Use this personalised workshop card to access B-made's facilities. B-made's physical workshop facilities are open 09:30 to 17:00 weekdays and we close daily for lunch from 13:00 to 14:00. Access to further resources and advanced manufacturing processes is obtained through further advanced inductions.

Please contact B-made managers virtualbmade@live.ucl.ac.uk if you have any questions or concerns. 

Schedule for first term

B-made facilities are open to students during term times throughout the academic year. B-made will open to users in Term 1 from Monday 23 September 2024 through to Friday 13 December 2024 but will be balancing inductions with open access. Please see our site-specific schedules below. We will update this page throughout the term as planning allows. B-made facilities will be closed to users from December 20, 2024 to January 6, 2025.

Returning workshop users and lost cards

Welcome back

Students who completed the B-made Induction in the 2023/24 academic year, can come to either of the B-made Hubs and exchange their workshop card for a new 2024/25 card and the Technical Services team will update your records.

Lost workshop cards

Returning inducted workshop users who have lost their workshop card can contact us through the B-made Hub email b-madehub@ucl.ac.uk before coming to collect a replacement card so that we can search our records. Please allow at least 24 hours for us to receive and respond to your message. We will endeavour to respond as soon as possible, but please note that the team are busy at the beginning of Term 1 so please wait until we have responded to your email before coming to the Hub to obtain your replacement card.

Please include in your message the following details:

• Full name
• UCL ID
• Bartlett programme/course

B-made workshop facilities

B-made, is a popular and widely used resource for Bartlett students and staff interested in historical and cutting-edge analogue and digital fabrication. We provide a practical, contextual and manufacturing-based education facility enabling users direct access to specialist equipment and processes. Students pedagogically and physically develop their skills alongside their design projects through the lens of manufacturing with us. In theory and practice, B-made is not a service provider; Once trained on the relevant process, workshop users make their own projects except for machinery run only by staff for safety purposes. B-made staff are always on site to support from planning stages to finishing details. It is therefore critical that students and staff planning to use B-made, allow time to undertake the practical training needed to complete their physical project when planning the scope of their design outputs. Please note that all workshop users must complete the 2-step process of the B-made Induction consisting of online training and in-person validation of readiness to use the workshop facilities.

The team

The B-made team is made up of technical staff and lecturers with a wide breadth of technical, art and design backgrounds and expertise. Our team work to support the technical knowledge required to facilitate the scope of our operations and support students throughout their projects and education. The B-made team is a critical component to the pedagogy of The Bartlett Manufacturing and Design Exchange, in its ethos of training and empowering designers and researchers to question and challenge the thresholds of manufacturing and design, and how a reciprocal approach can advance design thinking and the future of manufacturing.

Locations

B-made operates across multiple sites. Our three workshops are located within The Bartlett School of Architecture's Bloomsbury site at 22 Gordon Street, 77 Wicklow Street, and The Bartlett's UCL at Here East location in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Due to internal capacity limitations and increasing demand on our resources, we advise you to use the workshop located at your home site. There are equipment-specific exceptions to this guideline such as within our Robotics programme and on specific kit such as our water jet cutter. In circumstances where specific equipment is not available at your workshop location, you can contact the B-made team and arrange to use that specific equipment. Find more information on specialist activities across B-made's web pages. Key equipment and processes are listed by site below as a general summary. Please note that there are variations in the equipment and machinery available at each site.

Please note that students should use the B-made facilities available at the site where their studio is based.

Health and Safety

B-made strives to deliver cutting-edge resources for manufacturing safely. The B-made Induction serves as a baseline entry requirement. It ensures all workshop users are trained on essential tools, evacuations plans, first aid procedures and workshop conduct so that all users can operate safely. It is everyone's responsibility to ensure we are all working in a safe environment.  Bartlett collegues and students must understand that it is the responsibility of individuals who introduce new risks to own those risks and take the appropriate measures to reduce the likelyhood for harm to occur.  Please take a few moments to read through the information below as you may not be aware that you have responsibilities and obligations to oblige to various Government / legal / UCL or Bartlett Policies.

UCL staff and students can learn more about indivduals' responsibilities and risk mitigation by visiting B-made's Health and Safety page for more information.

Contact and further resources

B-made Management team | Operational and workshop queries.

• Email the B-made managers