Raj Dab - 3 Case Studies

Queen Elizabeth Teaching Hospital & Interdisciplinary Research Campus Glasgow, Scotland Client: University of Glasgow / NHS GG&C Value: £842M (Masterplan), £156m (Delivered Components) Size: 45,500sqm Completion Date: 2016

The project brings together an 1100-bed acute Adult &

Following this A competitive dialogue process allowed

Paediatric Hospital with highly specialist NHS Diagnostic

appointment of Brookfield Multiplex as contractor led

& Clinical Services integrating the University of Glasgow

design team to develop proposals for the main build of

Bio-Medical Research teams initially requiring the

Adult and Children’s Hospitals in November 2009. The

rapid pace development of the business case for the

established design team for the laboratory Medicine

Hospital and associated facilities including Europes

component was novated to the contractor in November

largest new medical diagnostic laboratory facility on

2009 by which time the team had achieved had achieved

the Southern General Hospital Campus as phase 1 of the

planning approval for the project. Planning involved

implementation of the proposed new QEUH.

rigorous consultation and involvement from Architecture &

The Client’s Challenge Forty four years after the QEUH Institute of Neurological Sciences opened (1971) the campus began undergoing modernisation in partnership with the University of

Design Scotland.

Services Provided on all Stages and Phases: Full Architectural & Lead Consultant through all RIBA stages from initial inception.

Glasgow that has returned the campus to a truly leading

The development of a new world-class teaching &

edge facility for 21st century medicine and research. A

research hospital campus in Glasgow at the New

series of physically linked & phased developments make

Queen Elizabeth Teaching Hospital will bring together

up this transformational vision for the future of Medicine &

NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde and the University of

Life Science at NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde.

Glasgow forming a key collaborative partnership to

The approval of the QEUH contract was confirmed at £842m, based on the teams Technical Exemplar Masterplan.

fuse teaching, healthcare & research. In our capacity as Technical Advisors and Masterplanners the design team were charged with assisting in the development of the campus strategy along with client engagement and discussion on the integration of non-NHS facilities

Queen Elizabeth Teaching Hospital & Interdisciplinary Research Campus

on the site. Development the brief with NHS and

that are also able to enhance and respond to current and

University of Glasgow stakeholders for an integrated

advancing technology.

and interdisciplinary campus that included forging key relationships between healthcare professionals, academic teaching, research and industry collaboration.

Through this involvement the team were appointed to design and deliver several substantial components of the campus plan.

As phase 1 of the development, Laboratory Medicine brings several diagnostic disciplines together with University of Glasgow researchers in a facility that is primarily designed around process delivery and staff collaboration. The design of the facility was heavily informed by or boundary breaking strategic brief for the

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Laboratory Medicine, £90M

MRC’s Frances Crick Institute.

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Teaching & Learning facility & Stratified Medicine

The new Teaching & Learning Facility (Medical School)

Scotland Innovation Centre, £25M

and Stratified Medicine Scotland-Innovation Centre that forms a key component of the Universities Outreach in to

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New centralised NHS Office Facility, £22M

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Clinical Research Facility, £3M

for the teaching of future medical sciences professionals

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Imaging centre for Excellence, £18M

aligned with the development of novel therapeutics.

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Clinical Imaging centre £3M.

Design Approach - Medical Planning

All of these projects have been delivered by a single core team within the Glasgow office that we propose to utilise as the core resource for the proposed new Research Hub. All components of the campus are designed, located

the acute hospital environment and commercial industry

A core enabler defining understanding of interfaces required throughout the estate, opportunities for achieving synergies between Healthcare, Teaching, Research, Diagnostic Testing and Industry interface.

and planned to allow for integration and healthcare

A Thorough Client Brief - Bench to Bedside Research

outreach. The facilities were developed as part of the

The development of the client brief and subsequent

overall campus Masterplan to ensure adherence to current

facility design for the labs and indeed any other building,

requirements, coupled with a vision for a collaborative

critically revolves around the integrated design team’s

and interdisciplinary future. Academia recognises that

understanding of each of the stakeholders’ requirements.

to attract the highest calibre of student to the institution

Each floor plate of laboratory Medicine was designed to

the creation of vibrant learning spaces, traditional

provide fluid sample flow through all the process driven

teaching environments, informal learning landscapes

requirements of sample testing, analysis, production

and a variety of additional flexible facilities are needed,

and storage.

The success of this project heavily depended on the thoroughness and completeness of the design team lead briefing of all client requirements that was conducted through group workshops and departmental lead briefing. A lesson learned, through this process, was issues relating to equipment transfer from existing facilities, BMJ developed BIM integrated processes to capture at briefing stage, information relating to equipment requirements, condition and expected life span. This was invaluable affording the client the ability to quickly focus on the timely transfer of equipment, while enabling the contractor to install and commission facilities prior to the final commissioning and hand over.

Queen Elizabeth Teaching Hospital & Interdisciplinary Research Campus

Teaching & Learning The new Teaching & Learning Facility (Medical School) and Stratified Medicine Scotland-Innovation Centre that forms a key component of the Universities Outreach in to the acute hospital environment and commercial industry for the teaching of future medical sciences professionals aligned with the development of novel therapeutics.

Developed through close consultation with user groups to provide a range of spaces and places that together are able to respond to developing needs within the faculty of medicine and life sciences. This followed form a strategic evaluation of current facilities to determine clear project objectives

and diagnostic groups covering Blood Sciences, Biochemistry,

and quality aspirations, the consultation

Haematology, Pathology, Genetics, Microbiology, Facilities

strategy was tailored to project needs and

Management and City Mortuary Facilities.

focussed on integration within the campus, achieving synergies with other facilities and

Industry Integration

rationalising requirements to a few core

The desire to connect and Integrate has resulted in a vibrant mix

building blocks that are generic enough to

of spaces traditional and highly specialist facilities within the same

respond to the teaching needs of different

building envelope. The facility also brings commercial collaboration,

group sizes and subject matter. Our diverse

research and teaching by incorporating the Stratified Medicine

and dynamic approach that was accessible

Scotland - Innovation Centre. The SMS-IC houses a state-of-the art

and understandable to all involved helped to

‘smart laboratory’ and incubator laboratory space, encompassing the

develop this complex brief and our research

requirements of bio-informatics and genomics within healthcare and

was able to inform this process with our

teaching. The SMS-IC offers industry a game-changing opportunity

understanding of best practice from our other

to couple with teaching, rapidly develop more efficacious and

university clients. Key to the layout of the

safe therapeutics and diagnostic processes. This is borne out by

building was to fuse spatial requirements with

representation within the brief, global leaders in Genomics and

the creation of opportunities for collaboration

Bioinformatics, Life Technologies, Aridhia Informatics, GSK, Astra

between students and professionals.

Zeneca and Novartis and Clinical Research Organisations – Quintiles.

Diagnostic Laboratories

Teaching

As phase 1 of the development, Laboratory

The facility will sit as part of a world-class campus and Europe’s largest

Medicine brings several diagnostic disciplines

teaching hospital, the collaboration of NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

together with University of Glasgow

and the University of Glasgow, as partners, has required an exemplary

researchers in a facility that is primarily

new building to accommodate a diverse program of accommodation

designed around process delivery and staff

to support teaching and learning. Bold and forward thinking in design

collaboration. The design of the facility

and planning, the facility has been designed by BMJ with main

was heavily informed by or boundary

contractor BAM to BIM level 2 compliance.

breaking strategic brief for the MRC’s Frances Crick Institute.

Direct connectivity is provided both physically and electronically to the Clinical Imaging Centre, Clinical Research Facility and the

The early design stages involved the

Imaging Centre for Excellence amongst other collaborative projects

development and co-ordination of the user

that together aim to become a global exemplar that illustrates how

brief servicing the requirements of over

Teaching & Research can partner with Healthcare to deliver robust and

830 building users throughout research

innovative solutions.

Queen Elizabeth Teaching Hospital & Interdisciplinary Research Campus

Mapping the Requirements of the Learning Landscape -

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Understanding Learning requirements and the impact on spatial provision formed an early investigating process to

century thinking and debate.

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allow us to inform the layout of the facility and its context with flexible teaching opportunities to support all aspects of current and envisaged thinking.

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Social learning spaces. A range of informal spaces

group training.

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2. Informal learning space

to support independent as well as group and

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Electronic libraries.

collaborative working among students.

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Informal collaboration areas internal and external.

Social learning supported by students. Learning • •

Learning resources centre.

spaces that provide academics with resources,

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Knowledge exchange area.

including expert advice, to develop their teaching and

3. Specialist teaching areas

Experimental teaching spaces. Teaching and learning

learning practices.

Research and teaching spaces. Spaces that support the connection between research and teaching among academics, postgraduates, undergraduate student and professionals.

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Technology/media. Teaching spaces enhanced by the very latest technology for teaching, informed by

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Flexible containment teaching laboratories,

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Clinical skills training areas,

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Specialist examination environments,

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Mock clinical environments,

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Clean room areas,

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IT data centre.

pedagogies driven by technological imperatives.

Early consideration of sustainability to maximise

Postgraduate provision. Study spaces designed

opportunities was aligned with the University’s vision for

exclusively for postgraduate students.

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Access to IT teaching data systems and the web.

responsibilities.

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Integrated data + AV for flexible teaching

E-learning landscapes.

spaces for which students have some supervisory

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A variety of differing spaces to support small

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with comfortable, flexible furniture and technologies

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Unique environment to inspire 21st

The four-storey building houses a collaborative and diverse teaching brief that includes: 1. Lecture spaces •

Lecture theatres at the heart of the facility including a 500 seat auditoria.

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Flexibility for events and major global healthcare conferences.

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Numerous seminar/teaching spaces for 80+

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Various flexible seminar/ teachingspaces for 40+

BREEAM Excellent and A+ EPC ratings.

Francis Crick Institute London, United Kingdon Client: Cancer Research UK, Imperial College London, King’s College London, the Medical Research Council, University College London and the Wellcome Trust Value: £550M (Concept to RIBA Stage 2) / £38M (Specialist Facilities) Completion Date: 2016 Procurement: Traditional

Project Background Raj has a long-standing history with the Medical Research Council (MRC) and have developed feasibility and option appraisals for several of the MRC’s recent facilities. Undertaking several refurbishment appraisals of the current NIMR facility at Mill Hill inclusive of its extensive BRF facilities.

Raj developed the option appraisal and feasibility study that informed the procurement of the £300M+ Laboratory for Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge. Learning from this experience under Framework agreement to the MRC, Raj undertook to develop appraisals for; 1.

Rehabilitation of the MRC’s National Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) facility at Millhill, Refurbishment.

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Relocation of NIMR facilities to the National Temperance Hospital site on Tottenham Court Road, New Build. This project involved a collaboration with UCL.

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Relocation of NIMR facilities to the British Library site on Euston Road, New Build. This project involved a collaboration with UCL, CRUK, The Wellcome Trust, ICL & KCL.

Each of the appraisals ran concurrently and each involved multiple sub-option appraisals. This was necessary to underpin the viability of the ability of the proposed project given its size and complexity.

Left: Aerial view.

Francis Crick Institute

Left: Raj’s Site Masterplanning massing.

Below: Final site layout by others is true to the concept design strategy by BMJ.

Our development of the Brief and Animal Strategy for

We progressed the concept design for a 98,000m2 facility

the Francis Crick institute

to facilitate submission of the Business Case to the UK

Consequently, Raj and his team were appointed to develop an outline brief for a new facility on a site at St Pancras owned by the British Library, initially known

government for approval, The site was purchased form DCMS and the team continued to develop the design to facilitate FBC and OJEU.

as the UK Centre for Medical Research & Innovation.

In the lead up to a global design competition to procure a

Over a 2-year period we were able to develop a

design team for the UKCMRI, we developed proposals on a

detailed understanding of the multistakeholder needs

weekly basis for presentation to the client consortia. Each

and explored in detail synergies achievable through

iteration of the developing concept design building on

all consortia members. This detailed exploration and

stakeholder comment and experience to ensure that the

questioning of scientific requirements resulted in a robust

site could robustly accommodate the still developing brief.

development proposal and concept design for the new facility that responded to all statutory requirements both in terms of the buildings use and physical design. This level of detailed proposal attracted significant investment from the Wellcome Trust who also joined the Consortia.

Importantly knowing that we would not be developing a final design it was key to the project team that a level of comfort that the final brief could be delivered on the site.

Francis Crick Institute

Of relevance is that Raj was sub-contracted by the lead architect HOK to develop further option appraisals and

Facilities Provided •

Small Animal Holding (Ward Accommodation),

welfare and procedural / experimentation facilities

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Recreational facilities,

within the brief.

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Quarantine and Isolation,

Now known as the Francis Crick Institute, Raj became the

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Pharmacy,

the detailed and technical brief of complex process driven

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Procedural Space,

specialist facilities extending to 9,000m2.

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High Containment,

Our team developed the detailed design of one of the

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PET-CT, MRI and Multimodal imaging,

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Automated cage and rack washing,

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CL4 Ultra High Containment,

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Effluent treatment facilities,

water treatment and FM facilities.

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Staff Facilities,

An initial option appraisal and interrogation of the

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Intensive Care facilities,

existing design defined areas of concern to the client

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Extensive Autoclave and disinfection facilities.

Stage C, D & E designs for highly specialist animal holding,

primary client consortia interface in the development of

largest Biological BSU facilities in Europe including cutting edge imaging, CL2 laboratories, process driven multiple conventional and SPF barrier procedural and holding accommodation, CL3 and high containment and CL4 areas, advanced robotic processing, radiological facilities,

team, which we were able to respond to and resolve in the developing design.

In initial stages of our sub consultant role we progressed in tandem 2 parallel design streams that investigated 2 differing options to ensure the likelihood of compromising client requirements was minimised.

Our involvement in this project concluded at RIBA Stage E.

Left: Detailed Design Internal Planning

Reckitt Benckiser Global Manufacturing and Distribution Facility, Hull Client: Reckitt Benckiser Value: £250m+ Duration: 2018 - Ongoing

Project Background Raj developed the concept design and masterplan for a new global benchmark GMP manufacturing facility, office, distribution facility and visitor centre to enable the expansion of RB in to newly acquired markets.

The new facility will support the manufacture of household brands and medicines to GMP and FDA standards. The new facilities are being designed to exemplary standards of flexibility and adaptability to enable the manufacturing space to meet the changing needs of the marketplace and equipment. Designed on a large-scale modular principal to facilitate expansion and reconfiguration, the proposed facility will it is anticipated position the Hull site as a global centre for excellence.

Our development of the Masterplan Strategy Our vision is to create scientific facilities that can change the world for the better. The facilities we design give our clients the tools they need to work safely, improving the health of nations and saving lives. Our philosophy is clear: to design facilities that not only advance innovative scientific discovery but also inspire interaction and collaboration.

We approach each project with a holistic view to planning, design and operations. Our goal is to enable our clients to confidently make the right choices to balance their programme needs, budget and infrastructure. Facility design solutions need to support and enhance the user’s unique demands, acknowledging that today’s research facilities must be designed to support a flexible, collaborative, safe and sustainable environment.

Reckitt Benckiser

Design Scope Within the context of the potential acquisition of other Bio-pharma R&D providers the scope of the project was to expand and make robust and resilient existing facilities across the whole RB site. The key need is to provide as much as possible flexibility across the differing facilities to allow for future adaptability. The architectural approach in the first instance was to understand the configuration in terms of the design section to allow for the development of a generic design module that is bespoke to the needs of RB. Taking account of the heavily serviced nature of many of the required facilities.

Various options for the proposed arrangement of functions were investigated and interrogated that could be applied to a concept grid that could be applied to the site that offered a diverse arrangement of module sizes for different functions.

Reckitt Benckiser

The design of complex technical facilities involved the productive collaboration of all stakeholders to ensure that the developing design captures and responds all stakeholder requirements.

Our initial workshops on the development of the brief required graded and regulated cleanroom facilities; the largest risk to the cleanliness of any environment will be its workforce. People, production machinery and the building structure generate contamination, People and machinery produce millions of particles, and conventional building materials can easily degenerate, this is well understood by the team.

A key concept was to understand how highly controlled and regulated process areas are screened and protected from external environmental factors that can affect the stability of internal environments, a further thought related to the inevitable personnel and material movement and initial thought regarding separation of these to reduce travel distances thus making the facility footprint more efficient. Critically, the careful positioning of large-scale glazed screens can offer a visual connection for all staff working in the process areas, both within the building and through the communal spaces benefiting from views of the landscape beyond. This will be a facility for its staff as well as its process.

Our approach has explored opportunities for process improvement aimed at streamlining the GMP facilities and also enhancing the working environment for all building users. All design inputs cognisant of current pharmaceutical industry standards and safety measures, whilst also being aware of the need to anticipate change and expansion.

Design Components Below, clockwise from top left: New Manufacturing Facility and redevelopment of existing GMP Process lines; New Visitor Centre and Museum; New Office Facility; New Distribution Centre Facility.