Client: Kings College, London
Hoare Lea is providing MEP consulting engineering design input for the new four storey £45 million research facility, located on the Denmark Hill campus, which will incorporate the Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute.
The building will provide the latest tools for imaging physiology, genetics and cell biology. The facility will house research laboratories including a basement level with interstitial plant floor, write-up spaces, offices and a 100-seat flexible seminar space. Ground source heating and cooling and natural ventilation with active chilled beams are among many of the measures incorporated into the design resulting in considerable energy demand reduction and the achievement of a BREEAM Excellent rating.
Hoare Lea are also providing vertical transportation, virtual engineering and sustainability design input.
Client: University of Lancaster
Winner of the BCO Best Corporate Workplace 2005
InfoLab21, Lancaster University research centre for excellence in ICT (Information Communications and Technology) features state-of-the-art computer facilities, offices, teaching space, a glass atrium and a caf with roof terrace.
Hoare Lea acted as building services consultants for Lancaster University ensuring thermal environmental performance, engineering systems design and energy efficiency were integral considerations of the building philosophy. Hoare Lea also supplied specialist acoustic and fire engineering support.
Natural ventilation to the office space provides a low energy, low maintenance installation. The lighting solution incorporates suspended direct/indirect luminaires to achieve compliance with the principles of LG3. Underfloor busbar trunking and wired/wireless LAN technology give flexibility to the electrical and data servicing in both the office and laboratory areas.
The development achieved BREEAM Excellent.
Client: The Science and Technology Facilities Council
Named after Lord Ernest Rutherford and Sir Edward Victor Appleton, the 5500m² laboratory research facility for life, physical and biochemistry scientists uses the UK's new synchrotron, the Diamond Light Source. It also uses other Government funded world class scientific resources, including ISIS, the neutron spallation source and the Central Laser Facility, both operated by the STFC. The new facility will be run by the Medical Research Council (MRC).
Hoare Lea acted as MEP engineers for the project. Key design features include exposed concrete soffits in office areas, a direct ground coupled fresh air ventilation system, solar hot water (laboratory and domestic) and fume extract heat recovery systems.
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Client: University of Warwick
Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE) Awards 2010
Winner - Building Services (Medium Firm)
The 13 million four-storey building (designed for the Universities Manufacturing Group) is designed around a central first floor concourse where staff, students and visitors can gather in informal meeting areas. Facilities include research labs, visualisation and demonstration rooms, meeting and presentation rooms, open-plan office accommodation and a lecture theatre.
Hoare Lea acted as environmental design, mechanical and electrical engineer. Hoare Lea Acoustics also assessed the performance requirements of the sound booth, lecture theatre and atrium space.
Environmental issues have been at the forefront of the design. A holistic approach ensured energy use and carbon emissions were considered in all areas of the building's operation. The building achieved a BREEAM Excellent rating.
Client: Oxford University Estates Directorate
The new reserach and teaching facility for the Department of Chemistry will provide more than 20,000 square metres of new floor space and, with the existing Chemistry Research Laboratory, will create a world-class facility to be named "Chemistry Oxford".
Hoare Lea has provided mechanical, electrical and public health services design, together with specialist acoustics, fire and sustainability advice and BREEAM assessment.
Client: Imperial College
The L Block development will provide a six storey scientific research facility for Imperial's Academic Health Science Centre, including one of the largest cardiovascular research facilities in Europe.
Hoare Lea has provided mechanical and electrical design services and specialist advice including fire engineering, acoustics, thermal modelling, vertical transportation, facade access and BREEAM assessment.
Client: University of Cambridge
Hoare Lea has been appointed to undertake the mechanical, electrical and public health (MEP) design and energy strategy for the new Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (CEB) research and teaching building at the University of Cambridge.
The new building, to be located on the West Cambridge site, will accommodate a broad range of research activities and will be designed to meet challenging carbon reduction targets.
The appointment follows Hoare Lea’s completion of the MEP design for the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy (MSM) building and the Alison Richard Building at 7 West Road for the University.
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Client: Oxford University Estates Directorate
This new £28 million departmental building is arranged in two separate wings around a common open atrium. The office wing has five floors of cellular/open plan mixed mode academic offices, teaching rooms and common room with panoramic views over the City. The laboratory wing has four floors plus a single level of basement and comprises bespoke teaching and research laboratories, general teaching spaces and support spaces such as workshops and rock cutting facilities in the basement.
Key design features include a metal free geochemistry laboratory suite, extensive services diversions over existing site and a ground source heat pump installation providing 38% of the annual energy requirements of the building.
Hoare Lea acted as MEP consulting engineers for the project and also provided acoustics, lighting and fire engineering input.
Client: Kings College, London
Hoare Lea is providing MEP consulting engineering design input for the new four storey £45 million research facility, located on the Denmark Hill campus, which will incorporate the Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute.
The building will provide the latest tools for imaging physiology, genetics and cell biology. The facility will house research laboratories including a basement level with interstitial plant floor, write-up spaces, offices and a 100-seat flexible seminar space. Ground source heating and cooling and natural ventilation with active chilled beams are among many of the measures incorporated into the design resulting in considerable energy demand reduction and the achievement of a BREEAM Excellent rating.
Hoare Lea are also providing vertical transportation, virtual engineering and sustainability design input.
