Sector News
Blackstone’s BioMed Realty Announces Plans to Double the Size of Its UK Life Sciences Portfolio
Blackstone portfolio company BioMed Realty plans to deliver approximately 800,000 square feet of additional high-quality purpose-built lab space, following the acquisition of two new sites in Cambridge. BioMed, a leading provider of real estate solutions to...
How the 2021 Spending Review can make the UK a ‘science superpower’
Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE) Assistant Director Daniel Rathbone sets out the key asks from the 2021 Spending Review and the rationale behind them. We now know that the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) we have all been waiting for will conclude...
View the presentations from the Science and Innovation Parks Development Conference; partnered by UKSPA
Last week leading stakeholders and influencers gathered for the Science and Innovation Parks Development Conference where the emerging opportunities in the sector were discussed. The event, held in London, highlighted future development activity from park expansions...
Dr David Hardman MBE to step down as Bruntwood SciTech’s Managing Director in Birmingham at the end of the year
Dr David Hardman MBE, Managing Director for Bruntwood SciTech in Birmingham, is to step down at the end of the year, after 23 years working in the science parks industry, the last 13 of which have been focussed on leading the strategy, vision and development of the...
Construction to start at Oxford North with Hill Group awarded £15 million contract
Thomas White Oxford (TWO), the development company of St John’s College, is due to start infrastructure construction works following Oxford City Council’s planning committee resolution to approve its enabling works reserved matters application (RMA) to kick-start...
Create a virtuous circle of attraction, retention, and progression to improve gender balance in STEM, advises WISE
WISE says that transparency around career progression is vital to create a virtuous circle of growth for employers looking to build greater gender balance in their STEM roles. Women represent just under 25% of the core STEM workforce, and only 17% in tech, a...
Kadans expands Oxford footprint with two new acquisitions at Abingdon Science Park
Kadans has added two further buildings at Abingdon Science Park, Oxfordshire to its Pan-European science park portfolio. The assets, Monarch House and Penlon House were acquired from two separate private clients. The two buildings sit adjacent to Kadans existing...
The Golden Valley Development announces preferred development partner
The Golden Valley Development and Cheltenham Borough Council have selected HBD X Factory, a joint venture between UK property developer HBD and the international innovation campus developer Factory, to be their Preferred Development Partner. HBD X Factory has a...
The Digital Manufacturing Centre officially launches ground-breaking new facility
The Digital Manufacturing Centre (DMC) is heralding a new era of UK manufacturing with the launch of its all-new advanced engineering and production facility at Silverstone Park. Built from the ground up to solve complex engineering challenges, the DMC utilises...
New £53 million funding for UK manufacturers to boost competitiveness through digital tech
Five brand new digital manufacturing research centres and projects to help supply chains become more productive are among recipients of £53 million of new government funding to drive the development of the latest digital manufacturing technologies, Investment Minister...
UK Innovation Strategy: Leading the future by creating it
The strategy sets ambitions for an innovation-led economy Increasing innovation will enhance productivity across the economy, and in turn bring jobs, growth and prosperity to all parts of the UK. The whole system of businesses, government, R&D-performing...
New plans to put UK at front of global innovation race
New Innovation Strategy sets out plans to cement the UK’s position as a world-leader in science, research and innovation. New plans to boost private sector investment to put the UK at the front of the global innovation race have been set in a new Innovation Strategy...
14-hectare science and innovation park planned by Legal & General and University of Oxford
Legal & General is to fund and deliver a new innovation district with the University of Oxford, extending the existing Begbroke Science Park across an adjacent 14-hectare site. The first phase of the scheme will bring forward new teaching facilities for the...
GSK unveils plan for one of Europe’s largest life science campuses in Stevenage
GSK has announced that it has formally started the process of seeking a development partner to transform land within the company’s existing 92-acre Research & Development site in Stevenage into one of Europe’s largest ‘clusters’ for biotechnology and other...
Industry group delivers UK testing megalab in response to COVID-19 pandemic
Mace, the global consultancy and construction company, together with design partners WSP and HOK and technical partners Hoare Lea and GMP, supported the delivery of one of the world’s largest, most innovative diagnostic facilities—the Rosalind Franklin Laboratory—as...