As one of the world’s leading professional services firms, WSP delivers end-to-end services across strategic advisory, planning, design, engineering, delivery, and operations. Our purpose is to create scientific facilities that can change the world for the better.
With 75,000 professionals globally and 34 offices across the UK and Ireland, we combine international expertise with local insight to provide integrated services tailored to our clients’ needs. Our recent acquisition of Lexica – a specialist health and life sciences consultancy enhances this capability, adding deep expertise in strategic advisory, estate optimisation, project, programme & cost management, property advisory, and net zero services.
Delivering complex research environments
We understand that designing a research facility or transforming a scientific estate requires a thorough knowledge of our clients’ businesses and the supporting infrastructure required to make ground-breaking discoveries and develop sophisticated new solutions.
Together, we are proud to be delivering some of the UK’s most complex research environments, including transformative development programmes for The Pirbright Institute and Defra, as well as projects for UKSPA members at Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Wellcome Genome Campus, Oxford Science Park, Edinburgh BioQuarter, and Barts Life Sciences.
From high-containment laboratories and GMP facilities to large-scale estate transformation and critical infrastructure, our multidisciplinary teams ensure science campuses are future-ready, resilient, and sustainable. We bring a deep understanding of the science and innovation investment landscape, working with national and local government to shape policy and strategy – as demonstrated by our advisory role in the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Local Growth Plan.
Thinking ahead
At WSP, we apply future-ready thinking to every project, ensuring developments are adaptable to emerging technologies and global shifts. This approach helps our clients navigate and thrive in an ever-changing environment.