Durham University - Chemistry Department

Devereux Architects designed a new regional centre of excellence for science at Durham University.

The £3 million (ICCGS) has been set up to facilitate interdisciplinary research programmes in biological chemistry and bioengineering, demonstrating the University's long-term commitment to the region's research, science and technology base.

The centre builds upon the already formidable reputation of the department of chemistry at the university, which is the only 5-star rated Chemistry department in the UK, north of Cambridge. New facilities include a suite of custom-built science labs, including a category 2 sterile handling and cell culture facility, temperature controlled rooms, large laboratories for synthetic chemistry and dedicated chromatography and microscopy/spectroscopy suites.

The equipment and resources in the new laboratories complement those already in place at the Centre for Integrative Cell Biology and the JIF-funded Materials Chemistry Research Building. The Centre for Bioactive Chemistry will house four research groups from Chemistry together with groups from Biology and Engineering.

This is the second of two projects carried out by Devereux Architects. The first was a three storey extension to the science campus in areas of planning sensitivity. This linked numerous departments together around a new entrance atrium and includes teaching laboratories, an interdisciplinary research centre, x-ray and laser dark rooms and two fully equipped lecture theatres.

Client: Durham University

Value: £3 million

Date: 1995

Area: 1400m2

Status: Completed

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