CAMBRIDGE, UNITED KINGDOM
The United Kingdom’s Medical Research Council is constructing the £197 million Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge. Designed by RMJM to foster interaction and collaboration, the facility will provide 27,000 asm of low-vibration research space for 400 scientists and 200 support staff. Construction began on the three-story project in March of 2009 and completion is expected in January of 2012. The construction cost of the facility, which features geothermal piles, interstitial floors, and a separate energy plant, is £160 million. The project contractor is BAM Construction. The facility will include offices, an atrium, a lecture hall, a containment facility, and a mass spectrometry suite.
