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AECOM designs, builds, finances and operates infrastructure assets for governments, businesses and organisations in more than 150 countries. As a fully integrated firm, we connect knowledge and experience across a global network of experts to help our clients solve their most complex challenges.
We are regarded as a leader in designing and delivering a wide range of international award-winning complex scientific laboratories worldwide. Our specialist teams advise science park developers, owners and operators across the UK, providing solutions that support the flexibility and adaptability of these highly specialized facilities in an ever-changing scientific environment.
Our clients span the public and private sectors and we collaborate closely to deliver university teaching laboratories, private and university joint venture research and development campuses, pharmaceutical, charitable and government research facilities and commercial science park projects.
We work across the lifecycle of their buildings and estate from business case support and pre-construction advice, masterplanning and consulting on the successful delivery of new and refurbished laboratory projects through to improving the environmental and scientific performance of existing laboratories.
Some clients choose to appoint us for a specialist single service expertise; others recognise the value we bring to their projects through our full service offering that we provide through a fully integrated single business approach.
At all times our work is characterised by a relentless focus on reducing risk, providing innovation, improving value and assuring outcomes.
NEWS
AECOM announce new appointment
UKSPA members AECOM have appointed Sianann Tait as Associate Director, Laboratory Architect, strengthening its Healthcare, Science and Tertiary Education design team in UK & Ireland. Formerly with BMJ Architects, Sianann brings with her circa 15 years of...
Surplus office space to cutting-edge laboratory: three refit considerations
The Life Science sector is growing and so is the demand for suitable research and development premises, presenting public sector bodies and commercial developers with a golden opportunity to repurpose existing assets into laboratory facilities. It’s fast,...
Lessons Learnt From A Zero Carbon Laboratory
Four years after completion in 2016 we have been taking the opportunity to review how well the University of Nottingham’s Centre for Sustainable Chemistry is working. The building provides all of the functions required for the operation of the Universities...
Local energy networks: the key to our low carbon future
The UK government has set the challenge of a zero-carbon society by 2050, For industry, meeting this goal will require a hybrid approach of reducing dependency on the national grid and looking to local low carbon sources, writes energy infrastructure specialist Channa...
Six ways data analytics is transforming BIM
The use of Building Information Modelling (BIM) is rapidly increasing in the design, construction, operation and maintenance of building and infrastructure assets. The reason is simple according to AECOM’s James Rosenwax and Ben May: digital technology is making it...
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