Architect and consultant win roles on 拢40m research facility
Architect HOK and engineer WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff have been appointed to design a new research hub for Glasgow university.
The 拢40 million building will be built at the university鈥檚 Gilmorehill campus and will house research staff working on energy demand and waste management. HOK will be lead consultant, and WSP will be consultant engineer on the project.
The 14,000 sq m research hub will be the second part of what the University has described as an 鈥榠nspirational and world-leading masterplan鈥� for the West End campus, and is due to complete in 2019.
HOK鈥檚 regional leader for science and technology Adrian Gainer said: 鈥淲e look forward to creating a design that will encourage interdisciplinary collaboration and inspire the university鈥檚 research teams to pursue world-changing activities.鈥�
John Cox, WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff senior technical director for building structures said: 鈥淭his is a significant win for us as it strengthens our ongoing relationship with the University of Glasgow as well as raising our engineering skills profile in the education sector across Scotland and the UK as a whole.鈥�
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