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Our clients operate in fast-developing areas of scientific research. They require laboratories that incorporate the latest technologies and provide practical, efficient and adaptable facilities.

Determining the right buildings for speculative development is a key investment decision, as is ensuring that a particular building is right for each tenant鈥檚 unique demands.

Our team of laboratory planners and engineers work extensively with building owners, investors and tenants to ascertain whether a building is technically capable of functioning as laboratory space. We offer a variety of levels of appraisal from high-level overview using our in-house assessment tool and extensive experience through to full due diligence studies.

We work with existing building owners who want to dispose of a site and want to confidently market it for life science use, as well as for potential investors who wish to satisfy themselves that conversion is a viable
proposition. Typically we start by a desktop go/no go review, followed by a site visit if the principles look workable. The next step is to develop high level strategies and advise of potential plant locations and distribution routes to enable our clients to inform their financial appraisal.

Where a commercial speculative developer offers a shell & core or part-fitted development, we advise end-user clients on suitability and any areas for negotiation with the landlord prior to and throughout the process of agreeing Heads of Terms for the lease.

Where we differ from others is that we are able to offer this service as a 鈥渙ne stop shop鈥� with our laboratory consulting team and engineers working together at the early project stages prior to the lead architect being appointed to work alongside us.

We are at the forefront of driving the net zero carbon agenda and we were among the first signatories to the World Green Building Council Net Zero Carbon Buildings Declaration.

We work at all scales, from developing campus and corporate carbon reduction strategies, to the design of low carbon decentralised energy infrastructure and net zero buildings. As the momentum around the net zero agenda continues, the pressure on businesses and institutions to respond to the challenge is becoming increasingly acute.

Scientific research is hugely important for furthering human understanding and tackling the key challenges of the 21st century. However, research facilities with their requirement for high air change rates, strict environmental conditions, large equipment loads and need for process steam, can often be substantial energy consumers with annual carbon emissions many times greater than more conventional and much simpler buildings such as offices. This makes the engineering challenges in decarbonising the scientific sector considerably more complex.

We have the sector expertise and the skills and experience needed in both operational and embodied carbon to guide our clients through the process, whether it be building a new asset, converting or refurbishing an existing asset, or setting a strategy at a campus or corporate level.

We work with our clients to help them understand the issues, where their current emissions baseline sits and guide them through potential forward looking decarbonisation trajectories to arrive at a roadmap of practicable steps and interventions to achieve their goals – balancing this with their business drivers, the specific research requirements and operational resilience needs.

Buildings often consume more than double the amount of energy in operation than was predicted at the design stage and, as well as higher than expected bills, many asset owners and operators are left facing complaints from users about issues such as draughts, glare or overheating. Moreover, performance often continues to slip further over time and the issues magnify tenfold when applied across a whole portfolio.

To meet our net zero carbon targets and to provide a healthy and attractive workplace for high-value research staff to return to post covid, there is increased need and impetus to start addressing the 鈥榩erformance gap鈥�. We are perfectly placed to help you avoid these issues in any newly created asset, or solve them in your existing portfolio.

We create integrated and high-performance buildings that deliver real value for our clients and meet the needs of end-users. Our long history of sponsoring engineering doctorate researchers has enhanced our suite of tailored analysis tools and streamlined auditing apps and smart visualisation tools, enabling us to efficiently diagnose issues.

Our expertise covers low and zero-carbon building design, soft landings and aftercare, post occupancy evaluation and performance diagnostics. From brief setting to operational energy analysis and detailed simulations of indoor environmental conditions, we can provide an end to end service that helps you achieve your goals around lower running costs, improved asset value and enhanced wellbeing and productivity.