Willesden Centre
The new Telford building provides a totally unique and fantastically high-tech learning environment for the 4,500 plus students that study each year in the College’s Faculty of Technology.
It incorporates the very latest facilities available for teaching construction and engineering crafts, including mobile gas rigs, automated teaching screens, and microphone sound systems, as well as highly modern features such as exposed pipe work and electrics to enable students to see exactly how such services work.
All workshops and other teaching areas have been carefully designed and fitted with specialist machinery and apparatus that reflect the very best of industry standards, creating an outstanding setting for students to begin learning a trade or to develop their professional skills.
Opened officially in March 2009 by Lord Young of the Government’s Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, it is a truly exceptional facility that provides an inspiring place for students to learn and certainly has the ‘wow factor’!
Provision that now takes place in the Telford building includes courses in the following disciplines: trowel trades, automotive mechanics, mechanical engineering, production and maintenance engineering, welding and fabrication, refrigeration and air-conditioning, gas, heating and ventilation, and plumbing.
Kilburn Centre
In September 2007 the College of North West London moved into its new Kilburn Centre, a prize-winning bespoke building in the heart of Kilburn.
Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London, officially opened the building and declared it to be 'absolutely excellent' and 'beautiful'. 
Extensive use has been made of oak and stainless steel to create an ultra-modern building that is both stylish and durable. All classrooms are fitted with interactive whiteboards and the entire building incorporates a wireless network.
Not only does the new building provide students with up to the minute facilities and technology, it is also environmentally sound, with a number of controls and features that lessen the impact on the environment.
Due to its innovative ‘green’ credentials, which include a central atrium to maximise natural light and exterior fins to minimise solar glare, the building was entered in a national design excellence competition of the Royal Institute of British Architects and won second prize.
Interactive Kitchen
In 2007/08 our catering area was kitted out with state-of-the-art new equipment and features specially designed for students with disabilities, including wheelchair users and the visually impaired.
Facilities include talking microwaves, talking scales, and height adjustable sinks, hobs, and ovens. There are grooves in worktops to warn of the proximity of heat, and a particular floor layout representing safety levels of different areas.
These facilities are highly innovative and empower students with learning difficulties or disabilities to become independent. They are among the best in the country, and unique within London - the next nearest kitchen of this kind is in Norwich.
