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RESEARCH FACILITIES


excess heat in one part of the building can be transferred to warm a cooler area. This allows temperature adjustment where needed, making it a far more energy-efficient heating system.


Managing maintenance, being fit for the future


In addition to monitoring energy levels, it was important for the client to create systems that would support the Facilities team once the building was operational. With the pace of research evolving at an unprecedented rate, it was essential that the building services could adapt to future needs. The Quadram Institute uses a single building management system, providing a consistent operational platform across each of the resident organisations. While each organisation has its own requirements for temperature levels and airflow in key spaces, the open-plan offices are set at a temperature to allow a good band of comfort. The laboratory systems operate over a variety of different time periods and temperatures. These can be manipulated by the facilities team, or via user override switches to reduce the need to cool unoccupied spaces. The laboratories are designed with exposed high-level services in the open- plan areas, allowing the use of fabric ducts for draught-free air distribution, easy maintenance, and adaptability. This also creates a striking feature and an enhanced feeling of spaciousness. Spare capacity has been provided within the utility distribution, with distribution zones at regular intervals. This allows for system upgrading without major disruption to the installation and building operation. The client’s need to respond quickly and innovatively to the latest user needs requires a flexible approach to delivering high-performance spaces, and an


Inside one of the laboratories, where research teams explore the relationship between diet and disease.


approach was identified early on to allow workspaces to be modified as teams changed and developed. Open-plan offices are easily configurable to accommodate different research groups due to a reduced number of cellular offices. Similarly, each laboratory can flex and adapt to accommodate a range of uses.


Looking ahead – next generation research


This landmark building, in the heart of Norwich’s science quarter, is a unique facility integrating institutional and university research with clinical facilities. It has been designed to create a world-class environment that enables the advancement of food and health research, while promoting the sharing of


Nora Claudio Familiar


Nora Claudio Familiar, senior associate, NBBJ, is an architect in NBBJ’s London studio with extensive experience working across healthcare, science, and higher education projects throughout the UK. She has a special interest in complex, user-driven schemes and the facilitation of clear visual communication, empowering clients in the design process. Most recently, she led the work on the Quadram Institute, a ‘transformational’ research facility where world-class scientists work alongside clinicians at the forefront of food science, gut biology, and healthcare research, to deliver bench-to-bedside research and develop new clinical therapies related to health and nutrition.


Richard Walder


Richard Walder CEng, MCIBSE, is the Sector director of Science and Technology (UK) at BuroHappold Engineering. He joined BuroHappold in 2005 after graduating from Loughborough University with a first-class degree in Mechanical Engineering (MEng Honours). he has led the MEP design for a number of large research laboratories, including Containment Level 2 and 3 facilities, cleanrooms, and co-located clinical facilities to HTM standards, including Europe’s largest endoscopy facility at the Quadram Institute. He works closely with laboratory users and planners ‘to deliver elegant engineering designs that meet the needs of the users, while building in the critical flexibility needed in changing scientific environments’.


62 Health Estate Journal October 2019


ideas through high levels of collaboration between diverse user groups. Ground- breaking new research from the Quadram Institute is already making an impact within the community, and benefiting wider society. This is exemplary of the huge potential that the Quadram Institute has in its new home. Bringing diverse disciplines together under one roof will undoubtedly foster collaboration, as well as contribute to major progress in the fight against diseases such as cancer and diabetes. Through a carefully considered application of briefing, analysis, design, and management of the building, the Quadram Institute sets a benchmark for future integrated science institutes, revolutionising the way that the scientific community can research and apply findings.


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Quadram Institute ©Nick Gutteridge


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