The new Life Sciences building for the University of Reading houses teaching and learning space, as well as research space for the Schools of Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Food Biosciences and Pharmacy. The Sheppard Robson designed building is within the existing science area.

Sheppard Robson’s competition-winning design for the Department of Biological Sciences responds to the University of Bristol’s vision of creating a world-class research and teaching facility which will attract international students and academics, and provide future state-of-the-art accommodation to support the projected growth of the department.

The recently completed redevelopment of the Centre for Tropical and Infectious Diseases (CTID), for the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), is the UK’s leading specialist research centre for microbial diseases. North-facing on Pembroke Place, the new facility provides 7,000m² of laboratory, write-up and office space, set over four floors. The development brings back a significant area of brownfield land into productive use.

GSK was seeking the creation of prime research facilities in order to achieve the highest standards worldwide, and so developed its own bespoke facilities on a 30ha site. The Sheppard Robson designed campus was planned to create a parkland setting within which the buildings were grouped around a central courtyard. The laboratory buildings were designed to provide state-of-the-art research facilities, whilst ensuring efficiency of operation and ease of maintenance.

Named in honour of the Nobel Prize winning biochemist, who received his doctorate from the University of Manchester, the Michael Smith Building provides scientists and academics with an ideal environment for furthering knowledge in areas of cell biology, including cancer research, tissue regeneration and healing.

Sheppard Robson designed the first major research centre providing laboratories and research support facilities for the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC). As a World Health Organisation laboratory, this Institute has an international role to produce and distribute worldwide standards for biological substances. This is an essential resource for medical research, for national regulatory authorities and for the global pharmaceutical industry

The Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine, for the University of Edinburgh, will provide a unique environment, developing new treatments for human diseases affecting the nervous system, liver and other organs. It will be the first large-scale purpose-built facility of its kind in the UK.

The £35m Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Strathclyde is the first major project on the Campus Development plan, bringing together the existing departments of the faculty; the Schools of Applied Physiology, Bioscience, Immunology, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Physiology and Pharmacology to create the Institute. Located on Cathedral Street in Glasgow, the 8,000m2 Institute is the gateway to the University and city centre

The Chemistry research facility at the University of London houses 350 staff. Designed to foster interaction, the new facilities include wet laboratories to support areas, offices and shared write-up space.

The completed building provides the University with an important contribution to the urbanscape of the campus. The external landscape is being completed as part of a phased strategy for updating all the external works to this part of the campus.

Sheppard Robson refurbishment of the Bessemer Building at Imperial College’s South Kensington Campus was shortlisted for a RIBA regional award. The building houses the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, a nanotechnology suite and a bio-incubator facility, providing London with a much needed wet laboratory facility for biotech ‘start-up’ companies.