Plans unveiled for Birmingham Energy Institute hub

By Jim Dunton2023-09-22T06:00:00

Source: Glancy Nicholls Architects

Centre will host research labs and collaboration space for low-carbon innovation as part of £50m investment

Glancy Nicholls Architects has worked up proposals for a net-zero carbon “smart living laboratory” for the University of Birmingham that will be the centrepiece of a £50m investment programme.

The practice’s Birmingham Energy Institute building is earmarked for a site at the university’s Edgbaston main campus, south west of Birmingham city centre.

Birmingham University said it would contain state-of-the-art research laboratories and represent the “cornerstone” of the University’s vision for a living laboratory that transforms its main campus into a “national testbed” for innovation in low-carbon energy systems.

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