Willmott Dixon
Suite 201,
The Spirella Building,
Bridge Road,
Letchworth Garden City,
Herts, SG6 4ET
ABOUT
Willmott Dixon is a leading national constructor of research and development facilities for science parks, supporting clients in creating better environments in which people and research can thrive.
By assisting our clients in unlocking value through funding and partnerships, and by using innovative construction techniques, we have been successfully creating research facilities from leading-edge new build private research and office buildings, to sensitively planning university science parks on already-occupied campuses.
Collaborative relationships
Collaboration is important to us in our mission to support and develop innovative, high-growth, knowledge- based companies. We look for opportunities to share this knowledge and innovation. The science team are proactive individuals who look to share information on best practice and build mutually beneficial trusted relationships. Each project is approached with our clients’ goals at the forefront, to reduce risk and ensure that the research facility supports the needs of the researchers from day one. To create the highly technical buildings that sustain and build the UK’s world-class research environment, we work closely together with scientists and the project team. We engage at the earliest possible opportunity to strengthen relationships and ensure we have clear understanding of the project requirements.
Positive engagement
Through our range of Scape frameworks, which provide a suite of OJEU-compliant options, we enable our clients to have a highly-skilled team rapidly in place, with the expertise and knowledge to take project responsibility from strategic asset appraisal through to project and service delivery. We engage and create a positive impact on the communities we serve. We invest locally, engaging, supporting, and educating both the scientific and the UK communities that these scientific and technological advances support. We create value for clients, stakeholders, and communities by taking a leadership role in the built environment, working in a sustainable and responsible way, and by making a positive impact in the lives of people in the UK. Working with the University of Leicester, our recent work with The Centre for Medicine demonstrates our commitment in creating the UK’s largest Passivhaus scheme.
Our client base is diverse, with recent and current work including:
• Met Office, Exeter Science Park
• Harwell Facilities Building, Harwell
• RAL Space facility, Harwell
• Oxford BioMedica
• SPark Bristol & Bath Science Park
• BioCity, Nottingham
• Intelligent Energy System Demonstrator (IESD), University of Chester’s Thornton Science Park.
• M-Sparc – Menai Science Park
• Boole Technology Centre, Lincoln Science Park
• North East Technology Park (NETPark), County Durham.
NEWS
Sci-Tech Daresbury’s global standing cemented as international innovators sign up to Violet
Two leading international firms have become the first companies to take residence within Sci-Tech Daresbury’s Violet development, representing a significant coup for the Liverpool City Region campus. Australian firm Blackmagic Design and China’s Geek+ have chosen the...
Sci-Tech Daresbury’s Project Violet reaches completion with tenants set to be announced
Construction work at Project Violet, the next stage of development at Sci-Tech Daresbury, has completed, marking a landmark moment for world class high-tech business and leading-edge science in the North West. Lead contractor Willmott Dixon has officially handed over...
Work completes on new railway research centre at the University of Birmingham
A new purpose-built centre designed to deliver specialist research in digital railway engineering has been opened at the University of Birmingham. The Centre of Excellence for Digital Systems showcases successful collaboration between academia and industry, as the...
Handover signals the completion of the new Aberystwyth Innovation and Enterprise Campus
On time and on budget, the final set of keys were handed over at the Aberystwyth Innovation and Enterprise Campus (AberInnovation) on Monday 24 August 2020, to mark the completion of the new world-leading bioscience facility after a two-year construction programme....
Willmott Dixon lands agri-food R&D development in Lincolnshire
Latest in a series of projects in this county to create jobs and encourage inward investment Willmott Dixon has secured the role to build the University of Lincoln’s £7m agri-food research and development (R&D) facility at Peppermint Park – part of the South...
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