Science and research facility

The world of science and research requires high-tech, future-proofed spaces that meet the demands of an ever-evolving industry. It’s all about designing and building places that go beyond what we can imagine today – positive legacies that empower scientists, doctors and students to do their best work.

Bringing experience from all sectors

With a foundation built on innovation and collaboration, we encourage our people to think differently so we can deliver even smarter environments. We want to design and build unique spaces where revolutionary discoveries are made and that inspire new understanding, and genuinely treasure the work we do with world-leading universities, global pharmaceutical companies and the world’s most technically advanced laboratories – regardless of size and complexity.

Flexibility nurtures creativity

The ongoing advancement of technology and medical science means that spaces need to be flexible and dynamic to the needs of the sector – the spaces we create today will often house technology and practices that haven’t even been invented yet. Whether it’s a complex laboratory fit-out, live building refurbishment or research facility construction build, we revel in creating inspirational environments of discovery. Our bespoke approach enables us to deliver high-tech, adaptable spaces that flex to a changeable world, and attract the very best talent science and research has to offer.

Understanding need

Our specialist team is made up of experts with unrivalled knowledge in the science and research field – this means we understand the lifecycle of complex environments such as pharmaceutical and research hubs. We work with world leaders from bio-medical, genetics and chronic disease, and together we manage risk, cost and certainty according to the critical infrastructure they need – by working collaboratively, we’re able to deliver smart, energy efficient, flexible spaces.

The spaces we’re creating will also save and improve lives for years to come. We are working with University College London (UCL) on its new £160m home for Neuroscience, enabling it to pioneer world-leading testing and treatment on neurological illnesses through our ‘bench to bedside’ approach, which creates places that boost productivity, where faculty, researchers, clinicians and students can work and learn together.

Flexible, collaborative spaces that nurture creativity

For science and research, demand is expanding at a faster rate than developers can build, particularly in and around the ‘golden triangle’ of Oxford, Cambridge and London, where life sciences clusters have grown around anchor institutions, including universities and hospitals. This has seen a rise in demand for retrofit and re-use, showing the possibilities of breathing new life into existing building stock.

Sycamore House, located on the Stevenage Bioscience Campus, is the innovation hub for life sciences and cell and gene therapy. Sub-divisible laboratory and office spaces co-exist with vibrant, communal areas and the effect is of a multi-tenanted building that feels light, open and genuinely collaborative, encouraging interaction between neighbouring start-up companies.

Advancements in buildings mean advancements in science

By applying cutting-edge clean room technology, we create award-winning Class 1, 2 and 3 containment spaces for world-leading pharma, research and academic clients, such as Imperial College London’s (ICL) BREEAM-recognised Molecular Sciences Research Hub. The hub, originally designed as an office space, was transformed with a 242-seater lecture hall, open plan laboratories over six floors, a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) suite in the basement, and a suite of laser and low electric noise laboratories. This represents just one of 30 complex refurbishments or smaller fit out projects we have delivered for ICL.

At the world’s leading researcher in nanoelectrics, Imec, we are combining exemplar methods of construction delivery principles with digitalisation and platform design for manufacture and assembly to transform the client’s world-leading research and innovation hub in Belgium into an ultra-cleanroom advanced semiconductor facility.