wellcome trust
Project Title: New Sequencing Laboratory
Client: Wellcome Trust
Project Value: £2m
Services Provided:- M&E Design
- Quantity Surveying
Project Overview:
The Wellcome Trust is the UK’s largest charity. It funds innovative biomedical research here in the UK and internationally, spending around £650 million each year to support the brightest scientists.
The charity was established in 1936 with an endowment of around £15 billion making it the UK’s largest non-governmental source of funds for biomedical research. Their mission: “supporting and promoting research to improve the health of humans and animals”.
The Trust is one of the worlds leading organisations in the field of genome mapping and sequencing. In order to increase their DNA and genome sequencing capacity they required a new DNA Robotic Sequencing Laboratory to be built on their site at Cambridge. This would allow them to run their sequencing at much faster speeds and in much greater volumes.
The challenge was to design a M&E solution with specific environmental and electrical power requirements. Demanding requirements that had to be fed from existing umbilical services to achieve optimum conditions.
Delivery:
The new laboratory consisted of clean rooms, offices and analyser rooms. Schofield Lothian was engaged to design the M&E, developing a solution that included primary and secondary cooling systems with associated laser extract system and umbilical electrical services to the sequencers. All was delivered on time and on budget to the very exacting needs of the client.
Additionally Schofield Lothian were retained to measure and value the M&E works on site thereby ensuring the correct financial control was applied throughout the project cycle.
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