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BY CAR BY TRAIN BY PLANE Manchester Manchester Central Europe 45 minutes 35 minutes 2 hours Chester London UAE 45 minutes 2 hours 7 hours Birmingham Leeds Boston/NYC 2 hours 1 hour 20 minutes 8 hours London Glasgow San Francisco 4 hours 30 minutes 3 hours 30 minutes 12 hours Welcome to Liverpool KQ Liverpool

Liverpool is centrally located within the Knowledge Quarter Liverpool UK and with a population of 1.52m, is the (KQ Liverpool) is home to the largest fifth largest city in the country. cluster of science, health, education and cultural minds in the city region Since being named European Capital of Culture Liverpool provides a great setting to explore the and is one of the best places in the UK in 2008, Liverpool has regenerated and transformed great outdoors with 120km of coastline and over to start, grow and scale-up into a world-class destination with a dynamic 2,500 acres of parks and green spaces. National reputation. Liverpool is regularly cited as the Parks, Snowdonia, Lake District and Peak District an innovative business. most successful Capital of Culture to date, with are all within two hours drive of the city. The unique mix of culture, science and the prestigious title providing the catalyst for Home to the University of Liverpool (UoL), medicine – including KQ Liverpool’s world- huge investment and building developments Liverpool is also brimming with culture and is Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), leading strengths in infectious diseases and within the city. 2018 will see Liverpool attract internationally recoginsed as a UNESCO World Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), materials chemistry– combined with stunning investment of more than £1bn for an Heritage City; it has one of the most impressive Liverpool Science Park (LSP), the new £429m architecture and its position at the heart of the unprecedented forth successive year, with £14bn collections of museums and galleries in Europe. Royal Hospital and the £157m Clatterbridge city, has already attracted the Royal College of of projects either on site or in the pipeline. The city not only has a celebrated past as a Cancer Centre, KQ Liverpool is fast becoming Physcians (RCP), Proton Partners International mercantile hub and gateway, it is now also a one of Europe’s leading Innovation Districts. and Kaplan, all of which will be based within The city’s biggest asset is its people - known for must-visit destination for lovers of art, theatre Due to its overall importance to the city’s Paddington Village, KQ Liverpool’s newest their warm welcome and great sense of humour. and museums. economic development, it is a Mayoral development site. Liverpool was voted the UK’s friendliest city by Development Zone. readers of Condé Nast and was ranked the fourth The Albert Dock attracts 5 million visitors each best city for growth and investment in the UK, year. Located adjacent to ACC Liverpool, the Albert KQ Liverpool is completely absorbed in by Arcadis. Dock attractions include: the Tate Gallery, The culture and is home to some of the city’s best Beatles Story, International Slavery Museum and bars and restaurants. With two international airports within a 45-minute the Maritime Museum. The Museum of drive and a high speed rail service reaching Liverpool is the first purpose-built museum in the London in two hours, it has never been easier to UK for over 100 years and reflects the city’s global get to Liverpool. significance through its unique geography, history and culture. Strength in Culture

Liverpool is a global brand, with music, the creative and performing arts and sport synonymous with the city’s international reputation.

One of the things that most differentiates KQ Liverpool from other innovation districts is the richness of the culture that is embedded into the fabric of the place. The KQ Liverpool eco-system is fuelled by culture – it’s what gives the place vibrancy and energy.

Music is undeniably a key part of the KQ Liverpool proposition, with the Liverpool Philharmonic and the UoL Institute of Popular Music located here but it also plays a much wider role in the city. Earlier this year, Liverpool was recognised as a UNESCO City of Music, due to its extraordinary musical heritage.

The creative and performing arts are The London Carriage Works at also at the heart of KQ Liverpool, with The Hope Street Hotel, the award- the Everyman and Unity theatres and winning Art School, 60 Hope Street, the Liverpool Institute for Performing The Quarter, HOST, The Pen Factory, Arts, which is one of the UK’s leading Moose Coffee, Frederiks, Roski, institutions for the creative and Oktopus and Free State Ktichen. performing arts. And it doesn’t stop there. KQ Liverpool People work hard in the Knowledge is home to some of Liverpool’s most Quarter but they also know how to popular tourist hot-spots, including the enjoy themselves. The independently- Victoria Gallery & Museum, Blackburne owned restaurants on and around House and the Metropolitan and Hope Street offer residents and Anglican Cathedrals. visitors alike some of the best food in Liverpool. These include:

Mayoral Development Zone

Knowledge Quarter Mayoral Development Zone

Paddington Village 13 15 Knowledge Quarter Gateway

Fabric District Discover our key sites 13 and buildings

N HILL LOW O K 14 1 RCP North (The Spine) 4 2 The University of Liverpool Health & Life Sciences Campus, including the 3 Liverpool Bio Innovation Hub and Biobank D 4 J 3 The Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University

Hospital and The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre ST GROVE 5 4 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine 2 6 1 5 Sensor City G Q 6 The Victoria Gallery and Museum

SMITHDOWN LANE 7 Materials Innovation Factory 8 Liverpool John Moores University, 12 9 Mount Pleasant Campus B 16 8 9 University of Liverpool, 11 The Foundation Building 7 10 Liverpool Institute for F 12 Performing Arts (LIPA) 11 City of Liverpool College 8 I GRINFIELD ST 12 Liverpool Science Park 13 Liverpool John Moores University, City Campus 14 Liverpool Life Sciences Accelerator 11 15 Liverpool Hope University, Creative Campus 11

16 Lewis’s Building P CROWN ST H E Discover places of interest 11 10 A L B The Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King C The Echo Arena & Convention Centre GROVE ST D Lime Street Station E Liverpool Philharmonic C A F G The H Albert Dock Baltic I Everyman Theatre M Triangle J The Town Hall K Central Library L China Town M Exhibition Centre Liverpool N © Copyright Liverpool City Council O The P Unity Theatre Q Theatre Paddington Village Phase One

This £1bn flagship KQ Liverpool As the owner of the land, Liverpool City Council is Paddington Central expansion site sitting at the eastern working closely with a range of organisations and existing and potential new occupiers to secure new gateway to the city centre, has been business and job-creating opportunities at the heart earmarked as 1.8m sq ft of science, of the site. technology, education and health space. In addition to the RCP’s new Northern Centre of The site is being developed in three phases: Excellence, RCP North, Paddington Central will Paddington Central, Paddington South and become home to Liverpool International College, Paddington North, with phase one now underway. a partnership between Kaplan and the University of Liverpool, Rutherford Cancer Centre North West At 30 acres, Paddington is a sizeable urban village, and the recently announced Rutherford Diagnostics inspired by the sense of community you’d find in the centre. The 12-storey international college will bring likes of Greenwich Village in New York. 45,000 sq ft of education and learning facilities and 262 residential bed spaces to the site, the Rutherford Not only will it be a great place to live but it will be a cancer centre is one of their first four pioneering great place to work, discover and socialise, with state- proton beam cancer treatment centres to be built in of-the art workspace, labs, cafés, restaurants, shops, the UK and the diagnostics centre will provide core accommodation, a hotel and teaching, examination technologies, such as CT, MR, PETCT, ultrasound, and events space. endoscopy and genomics.

Paddington South

Paddington South will present the A new train station will link to the city’s existing opportunity for mixed-use developments underground network, connecting Paddington Village to the rest of the city centre. focused around research and innovation. Liverpool City Council is already working There will be education space and residential closely with Merseyside Police to relocate their accommodation, centred around landscaped vehicle repair centre, which is currently based on public realm and green space, which will connect Paddington South. seamlessly with Paddington Central.

Paddington North

Paddington North, which sits opposite The development framework also proposes an easy- the health campus, will offer long-term access link bridge, which will connect the site directly to the heart of Paddington Central. opportunities for both commercial and residential developments.

With the new £24m Liverpool Life Sciences Plots already let Accelerator and upon completion of the new hospitals, including the new £157m Clatterbridge 1 Liverpool International College 5 Rutherford Diagnostics Cancer Centre and the £429m Royal Liverpool Hospital, Paddington North will be within touching 2 A new multi-storey car park 6 The Rutherford Cancer Centre North West distance of one of the largest clinical campuses in the UK. 3 RCP North (The Spine) 9 Residential Development (TBA)

4 New combined heat & power plant 10 A new hotel Introducing The Spine one of the world’s healthiest buildings

Sitting proudly at the corner of Paddington Village, Liverpool’s new flagship building, The Spine, demonstrates our ambition to make KQ Liverpool a world-leading innovation district.

The 14-storey, 160,000 sq ft building will not only The Spine will also be Platinum WIRED Certified, be BREEAM Excellent rated but will also be one meaning that it will not only be one of the healthiest of the first in the UK designed to achieve a WELL buildings but also one of the most intelligent and will Standard Certification – making it one of the best showcase best-in-class building connectivity. working environments for mental health and physical wellbeing. Affectionately named after the striking staircase that runs up the north elevation of the building, Using a biophilic design – an innovative way of The Spine’s lower and upper floors will be occupied designing the places in which we live, work and learn by the prestigious Royal College of Physicians, who – The Spine‘s timber curtain wall system and unique are opening their new Northern Centre of Excellence ceramic frit facade, reconnects people with nature, in summer 2020, with the remainder of the building creating a healthier environment that is proven to available to pre-let to other health, science and help productivity. education-focused occupiers.

The ceramic frit facade, complete with 23 million unique voronoi polygons that mimic human skin, wraps the building and reacts to the local environment, reducing glare and noise. The Spine from the bottom up

Designing a new building is no easy task. It not only needs to be innovative, iconic and inviting but it also needs to be complementary to its occupiers and environment. That’s why, when it comes to The Spine, we won’t settle for anything less than world-class.

As you enter the building there will be a shared public Each of the floors, which are all c. 11,550 sq ft, will area, complete with a warm welcome, living wall, have extra high ceilings, advanced air purification, café and an informal tiered events space, perfect for district heating systems and floor-to-ceiling glazing, seminars and presentations. This will be managed by providing some of the best views of the city centre the RCP and they will be happy to explore potential and waterfront. collaboration or shared use. Although the top four floors will be home to the RCP, To connect the foyer to the dedicated RCP exhibition there will be an internal sky garden, complete with space at mezzanine level, there will be a spiral high-oxygen producing plants. This will include staircase, encouraging interaction with the various conference and events space, including fine dining, displays that will focus on public health issues. which will be available for private or commercial hire.

The building will also benefit from 74 bike spaces, showers, a drying room and under croft parking. The Spine Building Specification

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1. Metal Encapsulated Raised floors 10. Conference/Meeting facilities (150mm clear void) 11. 6 no 17 Person Passenger Lifts + 13 2. Finished floor to ceiling height 3.0m 1 Dedicated Goods lift 12. 24-Hour Secure Building Access 12 3. LED Lighting (400lux to office areas) 4. Floor Loading Capacity: 13. 24-Hour Manned Reception 11 4kn per sq m + 1kn per sq m 14. WELL Accreditation 5. Onsite Under Croft Car Parking 10 15. WIRED Score Accreditation 6. Shower, locker & drying room facilities 16. VRF Air Conditioning System 9 7. Onsite Café (designed to an occupational density of 1:8 sq m) 8 8. Public Gallery/Exhibition Space 17. Perforated metal suspended ceiling tiles (600mm x 600mm) 9. Communal Breakout Facilities 7 6

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1. BREEAM Rating “Excellent” 5. Target EPC Rating A 2. 74 Dedicated Bicycle Racks 6. District Heating 3. Dedicated Electric Car Charging Points 7. Intelligent Lighting control systems Pre-Let Available 4. Solar Control Glazing 8. Building Energy Management System

The Royal College of Physicians Third: 11,656 sq ft (1,083 sq.m) Fourth: 11,539 sq ft (1,072 sq.m) Ground: 7,872 sq ft (731 sq m) First: 7,895 sq ft (733 sq.m) Fifth: 11,539 sq ft (1,072 sq.m) Second: 11,656 sq ft (1,083 sq.m) Sixth: 11,550 sq ft (1,073 sq.m) Tenth: 11,545 sq ft (1,073 sq.m) Seventh: 11,550 sq ft (1,073 sq.m) Eleventh: 10,300sq ft (957 sq.m) Eighth: 11,544 sq ft (1,072 sq.m) Twelfth: 11,493 sq ft (1,068 sq.m) Ninth: 11,545 sq ft (1,072 sq.m) Thirteenth: 10,290 sq ft (956 sq.m) Create a space that works for you

Whether you need a single floor or space over multiple levels, we can work with you to create the right environment for your business to thrive.

Here is just one example of how you can configure The Spine’s flexible floorplates to meet the requirements of your workforce.

Key features

Total Sq ft: Workstations: Dedicated reception: Meeting rooms: 11,544 128 Yes 5

Kitchen & Informal Hotdesks/ dining spaces: meeting pods: breakout areas: 2 2 Yes Local Amenities

The Spine could not be better placed to access some of the city’s 18 1 best amenities. 2.5 Miles

With countless shops at Liverpool ONE, a huge variety of casual dining outlets and cafés on Bold 3.0 Miles Street and some of the best cultural attractions, and 2 fine dining restaurants on Hope Street, you will be spoilt for choice. 25 Below are just some of the places you will find 24 within a mile of Paddington Village. Wirral (via tunnel): 4.0 Miles Discover our local amenities

1 Tesco Express 2 Bite Club Café 3 Caffé Nero 4 Starbucks 5 Victoria Gallery & Museum 5 6 Costa Coffee 7 Subway 8 Greggs 3 7 6 M62 Motorway 2.6 Miles 9 Tesco Express 9 8 10 University of Liverpool 4 Sports & Fitness Centre 20 11 Everyman Theatre & Street Cafe 12 Jenever Gin Bar 13 Frederiks 14 Liverpool Philharmonic 10 15 Pizza Express 21 16 Hope Street Hotel & London Carriage Works 23 17 Oktopus 11 18 Starbucks 13 19 The Art School Restaurant 22 20 Pure Gym 12 21 LEAF on Bold Street 22 Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT) 23 Concert Square 17 15 24 14 25 World Museum 16 19 Baltic Triangle 1.6 Miles

Festival Gardens 4.0 Miles Sefton Park 2.0 Miles Meet the Neighbours Rutherford Cancer Centre There will be a network of Rutherford Cancer Centres operating nationally The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and internationally, providing all- encompassing cancer services for Cancer CentreN orth West Founded in 1518 by a Royal Charter patients. Their vision is to create a better from King Henry VIII, the Royal College future for cancer patients by providing of Physicians of London is the oldest personalised and supportive care. medical college in England. It continues to play a pivotal role in raising standards Their first UK centre is located in Newport, South Our mission is to make the best cancer care Wales. In 2018 they have opened two more centres: and shaping public health today. accessible to patients across the country and The Rutherford Cancer Centre, North East in being from Liverpool myself, I’m incredibly I am lucky to have become president at a Bomarsund, Northumberland and The Rutherford proud that my city is not only leading the The RCP is the professional membership body Cancer Centre, Thames Valley in Reading, Berkshire, for physicians, with over 32,000 members and time when the Royal College of Physicians has way in advancing treatment provision, but both been celebrating its 500thanniversary followed by The Rutherford Cancer Centre North fellows across the globe. Physicians diagnose West in Liverpool in 2019. it is also at the forefront of world-leading and treat illness, and they promote, maintain and and also about to open a brand new research projects. Paddington Village is the restore health. in its history with an amazing building that The Rutherford Cancer Centre North West will perfect location for us, with easy access will embody our commitment to wellbeing bring the most advanced treatments in cancer care to the new Royal Hospital, Clatterbridge As the leading body for physicians in the UK and as we bring high quality research, medical to the North West, including high-energy proton Cancer Centre and Accelerator, where internationally, the RCP’s aim is to create the best training, examination and conference beam therapy (a treatment not currently available our new diagnostics centre is based. possible health and healthcare for everyone by: facilities to Liverpool and work more in the UK), as well as the latest technology on the closely with our regional members. This market to deliver radiotherapy, chemotherapy, Mike Moran • Influencing the way that healthcare is designed is a physical statement that we have come imaging and diagnostics. CEO and delivered along way from our origins as a college Proton Partners International • Promoting good health and leading the prevention and are now very much an organisation of ill health across communities for the 21st century and our members and • Supporting physicians to fulfil their potential fellows throughout the UK and the world” Professor Andrew Goddard President The Royal College of Physicians Rutherford Diagnostics Rutherford Diagnostics is focussed on securing the best possible outcomes for patients and will provide state of the art Liverpool International College medical diagnostics in purpose-built Diagnosics centres across the UK and beyond. Liverpool International College (LIC) recruits and prepares international Utilising the very latest medical imaging technology, We are working with local NHS trusts students for entry into the University of Rutherford Diagnostics aims to detect disease at to provide lasting change to health the earliest opportunity, making it simpler, better outcomes, initially here in Liverpool, but Liverpool’s degree programmes. tolerated treatments and improving outcomes for patients. then quickly across the UK and beyond. It is operated through a partnership with Kaplan Paddington Village ticks all of the boxes for Establishing ourselves within Knowledge International - the UK’s leading global provider of us; not only does it benefit from the most The new five-storey diagnostics building will be Quarter Liverpool demonstrates our diverse education and training. Kaplan combines amazing views down Brownlow Hill, it’s also positioned opposite the Royal College of Physicians’ commitment to this city which continues to 70 years of educational and learning excellence in a prime location adjacent to the university new building, “The Spine” and will be directly be at the forefront of medical innovation. with leading online learning technologies, award- campus. We have high expectations for this adjacent to the Rutherford Cancer Centre, delivering We are also extremely grateful for winning study materials and support from tutors building and are confident that we have a holistic approach to medical and cancer care on the the support of Liverpool City Council and assessors. The LIC currently operates out of the found a place that will not only live up to Paddington Central site. University’s Sir Alistair Pilkington Building (SAP) on and other institutions in the city. those expectations but will exceed them. Mulberry Street, but has outgrown its facility in terms Dr Steve Powell of both capacity and facilities required. Nigel Jones Chief Diagnostic Officer The purpose-built facility will enable the University Director of Estates and Construction Rutherford Diagnostics and Kaplan to offer high levels of education and Kaplan International Pathways accommodation, whilst providing the young students with the life skills and support they need to succeed. For more information or to take space at The Spine, please email us or visit the website: [email protected] www.kqliverpool.co.uk