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Enabling works will beginning up later this summer for a £60m redevelopment of Manchester Science Park’s present Greenheys building to bring 131,000 sq feet of specialist lab residing to market.
The manufacture by BDP will change into the building true into a six-storey style for life sciences firms working in diagnostics, genomics, biotech and remedy.
Half the building will be occupied by life sciences firm UK Biobank , the rest is on hand for life science firms that would prefer to location up in Manchester’s Oxford Highway corridor.
Specialist manufacture capabilities embody increased vibration resistance and ground loading, the provision of piped gasoline distribution systems and enhanced cooling and ventilation systems. The building is designed to enact rep zero carbon in construction and operation in its shared spaces and stable a BREEAM Ultimate rating.
BDP director Gary Wilde talked about: “The redevelopment of Greenheys is likely one of many most forward thinking, inventive building initiatives in the sci-tech enterprise in the north. With more emphasis on innovation and life sciences in the location, the skill to manufacture this new building which optimises exercise of the present self-discipline to raise versatile laboratory spaces reveals that we’re designing for a prosperous future. It also demonstrates the creativity of Bruntwood SciTech and its dedication to the thunder of this enterprise in the residing.
“We are very enraged to thought a firm esteem UK Biobank occupying a first-rate piece of the residing and we know that it, and diversified life science organisations, will be ready to make exercise of this great building because it is supposed to be veteran – for world main learn and discovery.”
The Greenheys redevelopment is the third piece of the Park’s masterplan to develop the campus to a million square feet and is anticipated to originate in spring 2026.
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