Project/Title: University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush Campus

Location: Roslin, Midlothian

Building Type: Education

Completed: Winter 2017

System: Schuco

Value: £1,645k

Main Contractor: McLaughlin & Harvey

Client: University of Edinburgh

Architect: Atkins

Description:

Based on the Easter Bush Campus, the £32m build for the innovation centre and campus hub will provide research labs and offices to extend commercial research opportunities on the campus.

McLaughlin & Harvey begins work in 2015 and complete in late 2017.

The new building is the home to the International Centre for Livestock Improvement and Midlothian Science Outreach Centre.

New laboratories will have 285 workstations with shared support areas including tissue culture rooms, incubator space, cold rooms, dark rooms, and changing facilities.

Next to the laboratories will be offices and and meeting rooms for more than 380 scientists; extending and promoting the collaboration between the UK Bioscience research base and The Roslin Institute, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), who are already based on the campus.

McLaughlin & Harvey construction director Paul Griffen said: “The new building of the Easter Bush Innovation Centre will be an iconic gateway building within the Easter Bush Campus for the University of Edinburgh, and will act as a visual indicator of the university’s commitment to research excellence.”