Francis Crick Institute Opens

The Francis Crick Institute, Europe's largest biomedical laboratory has opened. Located behind St Pancras station, the £650m building will accommodate 1,250 scientists.

The Institute is a partnership between the UK's three largest funders of biomedical research: the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK, and Wellcome Trust, plus University College London, Imperial College London and King's College London. 

During the early design stage, Abell Nepp provided peer review services and space utilisation benchmarks. Later on in the process, Abell Nepp was the Science Area Advisor to the Principal Contractor, Laing O'Rourke, and provided technical expertise in reviewing buildability concepts and tender packages leading to a complex mock-up programme for testing and approval of all repetitive laboratory elements.

October 2016