Clare Reinhold
Building Services Engineering Director

Clare is an experienced BDP Building Services Director specialising in laboratories, complex facilities and buildings for learning and research.

She is Science and Research Sector lead for the London office and her clients include AstraZeneca (Global R&D Centre and Corporate HQ featuring the UK’s largest laboratory), University College London (Automotive Propulsion Lab, Courtauld Laboratory), and the John Innes Centre in Norwich (Next Generation Infrastructure project, ).

Clare led the engineering delivery team on AstraZeneca’s new global R&D centre and corporate headquarters, a major project involving the relocation of the research centre from its former site at Alderley Park to the new Cambridge bio-medical campus site and is currently leading the engineering teams working across the Redevelopment of the NGI site in Norwich, providing new Net Zero Carbon plant research lab building and horticultural facilities for John Innes Centre.

Clare adopts a strong integrated approach to design, using innovative and passive engineering solutions to deliver low energy, low carbon buildings, Technologies she has designed include borehole cooling integrated with chilled beams, below ground earth tubes providing passive heating and cooling, passive ventilation solutions and provision of district heating and cooling networks.

Clare is highly experienced in running interdisciplinary teams and takes a prominent design role on all her projects to ensure consistency and quality across the building services disciplines and specialisms, whilst providing strategic level oversight to deliver efficient and future focussed engineering concepts to meet client brief and aspirations.