According to the University of
Salford's campus guide, Faraday House is home to the
university's finance department. The image below,
shown with the permission of Salford University Library,
shows the building in the 1970s with the letters
AUEW emblazoned on the tower where the University's
emblem sits today.
The acronym stood for the Amalgamated Union of
Engineering Workers so it is reasonable to assume that
the union occupied the building before the university
and prior to it being called the Faraday Building.
The university has a long term plan to consolidate its
estate of buildings on two sites and Faraday House along
with others located on the Crescent are regarded as
liabilities rather than assets because they are old,
energy inefficient and increasingly unfit for purpose in
a modern university setting. The Salford Council
said in their development plan, published in 2011, that
they expect Faraday House to stay in the ownership of
the university in the short term but,
"Once the
university vacates the premises, it will be
redeveloped for residential use with an active
ground floor use e.g. retail, food and drink"
