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John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park

Facts

Location Client Completion
Norwich, UK John Innes Centre 2030

Project details

The largest net zero carbon laboratory in the UK for the John Innes Centre (JIC) and The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL), in conjunction with BBSRC at Norwich Research Park. The Next Generation Infrastructure project brings scientists together into multi-disciplinary houses creating a ‘collaboratory’ of wet and dry science activities across chemistry, biology, physics and ecology to better understand plant and microbial phenotypes and how they impact on the evolution of plant genetics and development.

A variety of spaces in the landscaped research park are linked by a central public outreach gallery. New research and office buildings sit alongside state-of-the-art horticulture facilities and glasshouses, accommodating JIC’s increased staff numbers and their specialist work needs. Present standards of the zero-carbon agenda have been applied to all elements of the project in order to assess the embodied and operational carbon impacts. An optimised structural approach to the superstructure with a fully timber solution for the office areas and a hybrid timber and concrete frame for the labs offers a significant reduction in embodied carbon while meeting the specification vibration requirements for the laboratory.

Integrated services

acoustics, architecture, civil and structural engineering, building services engineering, landscape architecture, lighting, Sustainability