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– FULLY ACCESSIBLE BUILDING – 96% OF CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS RECYCLED – IMPROVED AIR QUALITY AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY – BREEAM ‘VERY GOOD’ RECOGNITION
– LARGE TEACHING SPACES – COLLABORATION HUBS – GOOD MANUFACTURING PRACTICE (GMP) LAB – BREAKOUT SPACES – REFURBISHED OFFICES
“My group regularly uses five different research labs. These were previously housed in four different buildings, but now they are all in one wing of the same building the benefits are enormous.”
BRIDGET WADE Professor of Earth Sciences
STATE-OF-THE-ART TECH
The building now has a Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) lab with the latest medical imaging equipment, which is used in the diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of diseases, including cancer and dementia.
BLENDING THE OLD WITH THE NEW
While modern facilities are essential to advancing science, we wanted to highlight the building’s Grade II heritage by restoring some of the original features. We reinstated the cast iron and timber balustrade at the top of staircase by rebuilding a section that had been removed, renovated original plasterwork in one of the teaching rooms and revealed the original glazed bricks in the postgraduate research lab.
A GRAND RE-OPENING
Sir David Attenborough re-opened the building at an event where UCL earth scientists Professor Paul Bown and Dr Jeremy Young presented him with a ceramic sculpture of a newly discovered ocean plankton species named in honour of the BBC’s Blue Planet series.
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