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    Cost model: Life sciences buildings

    2019-02-22T06:00:00Z

    Research methods in the life sciences are developing at an unprecedented rate, so how can our buildings keep up with these developments?

  • A Pirbright Institute scientist working inside a high-containment laboratory in the institute’s Plowright Building
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    Cost model: Laboratories

    2015-11-17T14:56:00Z

    The UK is a world leader in scientific research and those involved are demanding ever more sophisticated laboratory buildings in which to conduct their work

  • The 1,800m2 nanoscience centre at the University of Cambridge
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    Cost model: Laboratories

    2008-02-22T00:00:00Z

    Laboratories are probably the most demanding buildings that it is possible to build. Here, Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon examines the factors that their designers have to take into account, from the need to attract world-class talent to energy efficiency

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    Cost study: Chemistry building, Queen Mary University

    2003-07-18T00:00:00Z

    The design of a laboratory is an exercise in technical virtuosity married to an understanding of the social dynamics of a community of undergraduates and researchers. Architect Sheppard Robson, QS Turner & Townsend and contractor Geoffrey Osborne tackled one such demanding brief at Queen Mary University in London – here’s ...

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    Cost study: Innovation and Technology Transfer Centre

    2000-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Government, academia and business have come together to develop premises for start-up high-tech businesses in Plymouth. The alliance’s first building, the Innovation and Technology Transfer Centre, provides light and airy research and production units for £639/m2

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    Cost study: National Energy Centre in Milton Keynes

    1999-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Low-energy buildings usually mean high capital costs. But not the National Energy Centre in Milton Keynes; it was built for nearly £200/m2 below the average unit cost for headquarters buildings. Compiled by Weston Williamson, Ove Arup & Partners, and Davis Langdon & Everest