Queen's Medical Research Institute (QMRI)
The University of Edinburgh
Reiach and Hall were appointed by the University of Edinburgh in November 2018 to refurbish and reconfigure the Queen’s Medical Research Institute Building (QMRI), as part of the College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine’s long term strategy to collocate all medical research and teaching at the bioQuarter campus.
The project creates a specialist Institute for Neuorscience Research by linking the QMRI building, The Chancellor’s Building and The Anne Rowling Centre.
To be carried out in stages, the first stage of the works focused on the formation of the new specialist Behaviour and Electrophysiology studies spaces within the East Wing of QMRI.
As QMRI was an existing research facility which required to remain operational during construction, the integration of services and phasing of the works formed a significant part of the projects development and delivery.
The refurbishment work comprised:
Creation of specific, highly serviced procedural space with complex mechanical needs and home office licence requirements.
Creation of new electrophysiology research support space.
Creation of a new staff entrance and pedestrian landscaped link between QMRI and the Chancellor’s Building.
Alterations to laboratories to accommodate the specific requirements of the incoming research groups.
Alterations to cellular offices adjacent to lab space to increase amount of lab benching and provide additional open plan write-up space
The second stage of the project is to refurbish and reconfigure the existing laboratory and office spaces within the Central Block of QMRI to create new flexible and space efficient open plan office space suited to research write-up for researchers and post-doctoral staff.
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Contract Value
£9M
Area
N/A
Completion
On-going
Client
University of Edinburgh
Contract
Refurbishment
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Reiach and Hall were appointed by the University of Edinburgh in November 2018 to refurbish and reconfigure the Queen’s Medical Research Institute (QMRI), as an integral part of the College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine’s long term strategy to collocate all medical research and teaching at the bioQuarter campus.
The projects aim is to create a specialist Institute for Neuorscience Research linking QMRI, The Chancellor’s Building and The Anne Rowling Centre.
The proposals specifically creates specialist Behaviour and Electrophysiology studies spaces within the building.
As the building is an existing research facility which will remain operational during the works, the integration of services and phasing of works forms a significant part of the projects development and delivery.
The refurbishment work comprised:
Creation of specific, highly serviced procedural space with complex mechanical needs and home office licence requirements.
Creation of new electrophysiology research support space.
Creation of a new staff entrance and pedestrian landscaped link between QMRI and the Chancellor’s Building.
Alterations to laboratories to accommodate the specific requirements of the incoming research groups.
Reconfiguration of office space currently used for administration and senior College staff with a predominance of single and double offices, which will largely be redesigned to provide flexible open plan office space, suited to research write-up for researchers and post-doctoral staff.
Alterations to cellular offices adjacent to lab space to increase amount of lab benching and provide additional open plan write-up space
Refurbishment of write up space to improve efficiency.
As part of the relocation strategy, reconfigured space in the QMRI-CB complex is proposed with enhanced connectivity at street level between the buildings and associated landscaping works.
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