National Institute for Sport & Health

A CGI image of the inside of the new NISH building on Sketty Lane, Swansea, looking out onto the track at Swansea Bay Sports Park.

Enhancing sport, health and wellbeing

The planned development at Swansea Bay Sports Park, Sketty Lane on the University’s Singleton Campus will bring together and advance innovation in sport, health and wellbeing, and will draw on expertise from across the University’s network of academia, health and collaborative industrial partners.

The development is funded through Swansea Bay City Deal in partnership with Swansea Bay University Health Board, Hywel Dda University Health Board and Swansea Council. It will help the University to nurture, grow and expand collaboration between health and sporting partners to develop innovative concepts and foster collaboration.

This in turn will create business opportunities with the common goal of improving human performance, population health, job creation and economic growth for the wider region, and elevate the sporting landscape through world-class facilities. This will support Swansea University’s aspiration to be recognised as the most active and successful sporting university in Wales, and enable the development of groundbreaking inventions in healthcare and medicine, leveraging cutting-edge research in life sciences and technology to boost economic growth and elevate the sporting landscape through world-class facilities.

Learn more over at nish.wales

Construction Updates

Start of Works – National Institute for Sport & Health

Work will commence within Swansea Bay Sports Park on Monday 16 March on the new National Institute for Sport & Health building.

The new facility will support the development of a multidisciplinary sport-tech, med-tech and healthcare community focused on advancing sport, health and wellbeing. Read more here.

Project Background

Conveniently located within Swansea Bay Sports Park, adjacent to the University’s Singleton Campus and Singleton Hospital, the 2,000m² four-storey building will include a health and wellbeing academy, simulation suite, media facilities and collaborative working space – take a virtual tour.

We are pleased to have appointed Willmott Dixon as principal contractor for the project. The team at Willmott Dixon will work closely with Swansea University and Swansea Bay Sports Park to ensure access to the sports facilities is maintained and disruption minimised throughout the build programme. The project is expected to be completed by Autumn 2027.

Initial Programme of Works

Initial activity on site will begin with preparation works:

Monday 16 March – site set-up and installation of site welfare facilities.
Week commencing 23 March – scaffolding installation.
April – internal demolition works within the existing pavilion building will commence.

Customer Car Parking

In order to minimise impact on customer parking, we have worked with Willmott Dixon to keep the size of the site compound to a minimum. There may be opportunities to reduce the compound size during the project, allowing additional parking spaces to be released. We have also secured free overflow car parking for our customers within the Health Board staff car park – see plan below.

We will continue to provide updates as the project progresses. If you have any questions or concerns about the works, please email us at: campusdevelopment@swansea.ac.uk.

Site Plan

Download the site plan: Site Plan - NISH

A CGI image of the entrance to Swansea University's new NISH building at Sketty Lane, Swansea.