It is part of the Western Bank Campus of the University of Sheffield, linked to Firth Court via the Addison Building.

It also houses the Perak Laboratories, used by students reading degrees from Medicine to Bioengineering, a computer centre, several lecture theatres and the Hillsborough Centre,[2] for disabled and dyslexic students.

Axordia, a university spinout company dealing with human embryonic stem cells (hESC), also works out of the building although their offices are in the Sheffield Bioincubator.

However the announcement that the University Grants Committee would provide no further funds from 1966 delayed this and other projects.

[6] From May 2014 to January 2016 the south wall was used to display a poem "In Praise of Air" by Simon Armitage, on a specially treated cloth which it is claimed destroyed certain pollutants by catalytic oxidation.