The Beecroft Building is one of the buildings forming part of the Department of Physics,

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. The Beecroft Building is immediately in front of the

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and close to the Clarendon Laboratory Townsend Building. It is located on Parks Road in the

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of Oxford University. It is next to the University Parks, immediately to the north. The Beecroft Building was designed by Hawkins\Brown and completed in 2018. Planet Partitional was also involved with the contract. The budget was approximately £40 million. The building was opened by Sir

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(who studied

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as an undergraduate at Oxford) on 17 September 2018, in the presence of Professor Louise Richardson (

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( Chancellor of Oxford), Professor

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(Head of the Department of Physics) and Adrian Beecroft (part-funder of the building). The building is named after its part-funder Adrian Beecroft. The building is specifically focused on theoretical,

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and quantum physics. According to ''

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'', the funding for this building was inspired by Beecroft's interest in

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