SCIENCE AND LABORATORIES CAPABILITY STATEMENT
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10 MILLION M2 Area of building Ramboll designs for 10,000 projects annually
Designing hundreds of buildings every year, Ramboll has a rich heritage in OUR CLIENTS realising many landmark schemes.
In Buildings, our goal is to create Our passion for design and creativity has led us to work with an array of world client partnerships on every project leading architects and clients to realise the ambitions for their projects. As a we undertake. result we are a leading global engineering and consultancy company. Our clients want innovative design solutions, and we strive to put the Our unwavering commitment to design is married with a deep appreciation of best of ourselves into every single a building’s function, buildability and adaptability. Whether it’s designing and project. This requires specialised competencies and unique skill engineering world class residential developments, sensitively modernising A sets. We foster these by facilitating grade commercial premises, or restoring priceless heritage assets, we have a multiple strong professional great imagination for the future and a deep rooted sense of responsibility for environments. the past.
HOW WE WORK Our Nordic heritage and founding principles underpin how we operate; we strive to create sustainable solutions where people and nature flourish. We take a fully integrated multidisciplinary approach to Our deeply ethical standpoint ensures we consider the impact on the local our work. Specialised teams are environment, in a societal, cultural and sustainable context. Furthermore our assembled from across the entire Liveable Cities Lab in Copenhagen is spearheading research into improving Ramboll group on a project-by- liveability, providing further insight for our progressive solutions. project basis.
We have a genuine passion for We pride ourselves in understanding a brief, so that what gets designed and engineering, and we apply the same built achieves a client’s aims. We believe the best outcomes are achieved when rigour and enthusiasm to every we challenge and are challenged, the winner is always the project, and is why project no matter the size. we champion open and collaborative dialogue.
01. National Graphene Institute, UK The new state-of-the-art cleanroom and laboratory building for the University of Manchester. Image: Daniel Shearing.
02. The Maersk Building, Denmark The 42,000 m2 landmark extension to Copenhagen University’s Panum complex will serve as a modern, vibrant, and flexible centre for science and education. Image: C. 01 F. Møller Arkitekter and SLA Urbanity
03. Tate Modern, UK Ramboll developed the engineering design of this landmark extension to accommodate the building’s structural specifications and realise the architect’s visions. Image: Daniel Shearing.
04. Jenner Laboratory, Pirbright Institute 3,500m2 Containment Level 2 Laboratory at the Pirbright Institute (Institute for Animal Health) 02 03 SCIENCE 2
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Ramboll head oce Ramboll oce ABOUT RAMBOLL Ramboll is a leading engineering, design and consultancy company founded in Denmark in 1945.
The company employs 13,000 across 300 offices in 35 countries with experts in the Nordics, North America, the UK, Continental Europe, Middle East and India, supplemented by a significant representation in Asia, Australia, South America and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Ramboll works across the markets: Buildings, Transport, Planning and Urban Design, Water, Environment & Health, Energy, Oil & Gas and Management Consulting.
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CONTACT Lynden Spencer-Allen Science and Laboratories Sector Lead [email protected] +44 7436542678
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SCIENCE BUILDINGS
Design capability
We have a team of specialists with extensive experience of designing of science and research facilities to achieve a range of complex technical requirements. Our experience and expertise ranges from designing ultra-low vibration spaces for the most demanding imaging equipment to developing highly efficient general lab spaces.
We can add most value by being involved from the very start of a project. For the most demanding facilities this often includes being 01 involved in selecting the best site, before the project process starts in earnest.
01 National Graphene Institute, UK In addition to high-grade cleanrooms, the National Graphene Institute provides flexible laboratory space for ground- breaking research in the field of graphene. Image: Daniel Shearing.
02 Mountbatten Cleanrooms, UK An extensive complex of cleanrooms for 02 the University of Southampton. Image: Ben Grubb.
03 Materials Science & Metallurgy, UK The world-class Electron Microscopy Suite at Materials Science & Metallurgy provides the optimum working environment for ultra-sensitive microscopes. Image: Morley von Sternberg.
04 Defining the Brief Our involvement in the briefing process is critical to understanding the project requirements.
05 Capitalising Our BIM Experience BIM plays a vital part in co-ordinating complex laboratory services with other aspects of the design. 03 SCIENCE 6
OUR APPROACH FOCUSES ON:
»» Establishing a robust well- documented design brief through our involvement in the briefing process, talking directly to users, equipment suppliers and studying existing benchmark facilities. »» Understanding the site characteristics and adapting our design to provide an efficient design solution. »» Establishing key design principles in close collaboration with the rest of the team to develop a holistic design that achieves all of the technical requirements. »» Adopting a proactive approach and engaging across the whole project scope, sharing experience and lessons learnt. »» Using our BIM model to develop and co-ordinate the design, particularly important for heavily-serviced science buildings. »» Detailed analysis to test the 04 01 developing design followed by further refinement to provide the most efficient solution. »» Using proof of concept testing to reduce project risk where the technical requirements demand innovative and untested design solutions. »» Frequent peer reviews to capitalise on the experience of senior directors.
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SPECIALIST SERVICES
We offer specialist expertise across a wide range of disciplines
VIBRATION ENGINEERING DRAINAGE DESIGN
We offer a full vibration engineering We understand the high performance service, from undertaking surveys for that a science facility demands site selection to designing ultra-low from its drainage systems and have vibration facilities. experience in designing a wide range of different below-ground systems We have in-house capability to including chemical-resistant drainage, conduct a range of vibration surveys high-temperature drainage and with our own high-specification, radioactive drainage. regularly calibrated equipment that allows us to measure extremely low We also have detailed knowledge of levels of vibration. trade effluent licence requirements and provide comprehensive advice Our experience in ultra-low vibration to our clients as they liaise with the design allows us to provide early statutory authority to obtain consent input to the design process, ensuring to discharge. that the vibration brief is achieved in the most efficient way. We work ADVANCED ENGINEERING collaboratively with the whole team to ensure that the vibration strategy Our Advanced Engineering team is at is considered holistically within the the forefront of computer modelling design, to achieve the full range of and simulation which enables us to complex technical criteria. refine our designs. 01 Vibration Modelling Detailed vibration modelling allows us to accurately predict the vibration ACOUSTICS Applications include modelling performance of our buildings. propagation of vibration through Using our expertise in acoustic the ground and CFD modelling to 02 Survey Capability design, we design quiet laboratories simulate wind loading in complex Our in-house survey capability allows us to undertake noise and vibration surveys at to achieve the optimum conditions for built environments. an early stage to inform the design. extremely noise-sensitive equipment, providing spaces quieter than a We have also pioneered the use 03 Chemical-Resistant Drainage recording studio. of laser scanning to quickly create Fusion-welded chemical-resistant drainage detailed models of existing site provides a robust solutions for laboratory drainage systems. In addition, we have extensive features, integrating this information experience of acoustic design to into the BIM environment. 04 Vibration Propagation Analysis achieve a balance between quiet Using our advanced modelling techniques write-up space and opportunities for we are able to accurately predict propagation of vibration through the interaction and collaboration between ground. researchers.
05 Engineered Fire Design We are pioneers in acoustic modelling We apply an engineered approach to fire and encourage clients to listen to design, using simulations to go beyond standard design codes and achieve a more aural demonstrations to experience economic design solution. their project during the design process. 06 Site Investigation We provide a full site investigation service. SCIENCE 8
FIRE ENGINEERING
Our team of fire engineering experts provides wide range of services from strategic fire engineering work to fire system design.
We take a scientific approach that uses the statistics of real fires, calculation tools and studies of human behaviour. Our designs provide value by applying an engineered approach to eliminate over-specification caused by conservative codes, allowing the fire protection to be deployed in the most 01 critical locations.
Our team stays with the project throughout construction to ensure the strategy remains appropriate and is implemented correctly, and to provide on-going specification and construction advice.
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
We deliver site-specific environmental solutions that address all aspects of the remediation process—from site investigation and feasibility studies 02 03 to risk assessment, remedy selection, remedial design and construction management to site reuse.
We develop cost-effective, risk- based approaches to the evaluation, remediation and redevelopment of landfills and former industrial or hazardous waste facilities to return the land to productive use.
At the forefront of green and sustainable remediation, our innovative thinking and turnkey solutions have been applied successfully to thousands of 04 05 industrial, mining, development and hazardous waste sites around the world. We have established an unsurpassed reputation with both public- and private-sector clients and regulators around the world for achieving cost-effective site closure.
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FEATURE PROJECT MATERIALS SCIENCE & METALLURGY
A new £34m laboratory building for University of Cambridge requiring ultra-low vibration and EMI sensitive facilities
This new development brings Using our finite element analysis together this prestigious research capability, we modelled the floor slabs department from their existing to predict how they will vibrate and dispersed accommodation in the city thus refine the design to meet the centre into a single building within vibration requirements of sensitive the University’s West Cambridge equipment. site. The facility includes teaching laboratories, seminar rooms and Described by the University’s Estate student study space, as well as Management department as “one ultra-sensitive specialist research of the most complex projects laboratories and offices. the University of Cambridge has ever constructed”, the building A key aim of the structural design is was completed in July 2013. The to provide a world-class building that project was short-listed for a British can accommodate equipment that is Construction Industry Award and has highly sensitive to vibration, acoustics, won ICE and RICS awards. temperature and electro-magnetic interference. Of particular note is the Electron Microscopy Suite housing state-of-the-art Transmission Electron Microscopes with exceptionally stringent design criteria.
PROJECT DETAILS
Customer University of Cambridge
Architect NBBJ
Location Cambridge
Value £34m
Project Countries United Kingdom
Period 2009 to 2013
Services Provided Civil, structural and vibration engineering. SCIENCE 12
FEATURE PROJECT NATIONAL GRAPHENE INSTITUTE
New state-of-the-art cleanroom and laboratory building for the University of Manchester. Awarded British Construction Industry Major Project of the Year, 2015.
This new building will allow the of a basement to reach bedrock. Our continued research and commercial in-house vibration survey capability development of graphene, the new enabled the vibration performance at material discovered at the University depth to be established in detail and in 2004. The cleanrooms achieve the design optimised to achieve the ISO 5 (Class 100) and ISO 6 (Class requirements. 1000) classification areas, with VC-D vibration criteria. We developed a structurally separate utilities and services block to house Situated in the heart of Manchester the extensive services required to achieving the vibration design criteria operate the clean rooms without was identified as a key challenge at degrading the vibration performance the start of the project. In fact the achieved. feasibility study had established the ambient vibration performance on Completion vibration surveys site was considerably higher than have shown the building achieves VC-D. surpasses the vibration performance achieving VC-E on average. Ramboll vibration specialists were involved in the design from the outset and quickly established the best form of construction to optimise the vibration performance was the use
PROJECT DETAILS
Customer University of Manchester
Architect Jestico + Whiles
Location Manchester
Value £35m
Project Countries United Kingdom
Period 2012 to 2015
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FEATURE PROJECT CAVENDISH III
A new £200m world-class facility for the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge
Ramboll was originally appointed to The building will also contain teaching establish the brief for the laboratories and write-up space for PROJECT DETAILS Civil, Structural and Vibration academic staff as well as shared Engineering aspects of this social spaces to encourage interaction Customer highly complex project. We were between students and researchers in University of Cambridge subsequently selected by the different fields. University to provide design services Architect for the whole project, through our The criteria for each space were Jestico + Whiles experience of large laboratory defined through a series of user Location projects including previous work for briefings and workshops, revealing a Cambridge the University. multitude of complex requirements specific to each laboratory. These Value Research carried out by the include different levels of vibration £200m department ranges from high- sensitivity, special drainage speed impact testing to sensitive requirements, varying levels of Project Countries United Kingdom low-temperature measurements. cleanliness and specialist areas such The aspiration is to construct a as a plate impact facility. Period world-leading ultra-low vibration 2014 to 2021 facility to enable the department to The project will be partly funded by continue their pioneering research, an £85m donation from the Dolby Services Provided whilst promoting close collaboration family which represents the largest Civil, structural, acoustic, fire and between the research groups. philanthropic donation ever made to vibration engineering. UK science. SCIENCE 14
FEATURE PROJECT NIELS BOHR BUILDING
Lead consultant for the new 53,000m2 Niels Bohr Building at the University of Copenhagen
The Niels Bohr Building will provide The most complex technical Some of this space will also be state-of-the-art teaching and research challenges relate to the specialist magnetically shielded, to reduce facilities for the Faculty of Science research laboratories within the the impact of electro-magnetic at the University of Copenhagen, building, which include clean rooms, interference from sources within the including the internationally optics labs and high-resolution building as well as the new metro line recognized Niels Bohr Institute. The microscopes. Much of the user which is being constructed just 900m project consists of two separate equipment is sensitive to vibration away. buildings located either side of a and electro-magnetic interference, major road, linked together by a aspects which were particularly tunnel and a high-level skywalk. challenging on this city centre site.
The new facility will bring together Ramboll designed an isolated 1.5m research groups from the fields thick basement slab which will of Physics, Chemistry, Computer provide 2200m2 of exceptionally Science, Nanotechnology quiet laboratory space, with vibration and Mathematics, promoting levels attenuated to meet the NIST-A interdisciplinary working. criterion.
PROJECT DETAILS
Customer University of Copenhagen
Architect Vilhelm Lauritzen / Christensen & Co
Location Copenhagen
Value €110m
Project Countries Denmark
Period 2012 to 2018
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Mountbatten Cleanroom Complex Papworth Heart and Lung Research The original Mountbatten cleanrooms Institute were destroyed by fire in November This new clinical research facility is a 2005. This, however, gave the collaboration between the University University of Southampton the of Cambridge and Papworth Hospital opportunity to build a world leading NHS Trust. We are providing civil and research facility designed to meet its structural engineering services. needs and aspirations for the next 10 years. The building will provide space for a variety of cardio-pulmonary The new building has cleanrooms research activities, including Phase and technical laboratories, which 1 first-in-human trials in a specialist are highly vibration sensitive, unit accredited by the Medicines and together with offices and support Healthcare Regulatory Authority spaces. Ramboll provided structural, (MHRA). geotechnical and environmental engineering as well as vibration Pirbright Institute, Surrey analysis, and demolition advice on fire We provided specialist vibration damaged property. expertise on this £12m project to construct a new CL2 biological British Museum World Conservation research facility on this site in Surrey. Centre The building houses highly sensitive We were the civil and structural microscopes and demanded a low engineers for the British Museum vibration environment for imaging. World Conservation building which was completed in 2014. We also provided specialist expertise to define construction vibration This £110m project included a four limits to safeguard proximate storey deep basement and houses high containment buildings and
specialist laboratory space which is infrastructure. 01 highly sensitive to vibration. University of Birmingham and University of Cambridge, Electrical Molecular Sciences Building Engineering Building Annexe This new building will be part of a We provided specialist vibration phased development to house a expertise on this project to construct range of research departments in a new £9m cleanroom and laboratory a way that enhances their ability facility adjacent to the department’s to collaborate across traditional existing building. The building houses boundaries. Phase 1 will incorporate highly sensitive e-beam lithography significant areas of dedicated and scanning electron microscopes. chemistry space, low vibration laboratories and offices. We carried out brief definition, detailed vibration surveys, structural Ramboll is providing civil, structural modelling and vibration source and vibration engineering services. control specification. Completion At the early stages of the project testing showed the vibration phasing considerations were a key 02 performance surpassed the brief issue with focus on planning for future requirements. access, deliveries during construction and identifying opportunities across the site including the optimum locations for low vibration.
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FEATURE PROJECT THE QUADRAM INSTITUTE
Facilitating world class research by bringing together a unique collection of users into a flexible and adaptable building
The Quadram Institute brings The laboratories include the provision together the Institute for Food of a CL3 suite, NMR, MRI and an PROJECT DETAILS Research (IFR), Norwich and Norfolk AFM suite as well as the largest NHS University Hospitals (NNUH) and endoscopy facility in the UK. The Customer researchers from the University of vibration requirements of the building Institute of Food Research / BBSRC East Anglia (UEA) into one building were developed through close which will be the first on the South interaction with the users and include Architect NBBJ Norwich Research Park. It will house the VC-D criterion for the most endoscopy, lecture theatre/exhibition sensitive areas. Location space, write up and laboratory space Norwich as well as cafe areas and terraces. The building form is a reinforced concrete frame with an atrium space Value The building will enable ground- separating the laboratories from the £60m breaking research in a broad range of office space. The foundation solution Project Countries disciplines and considerable planning required extensive investigation to United Kingdom was required to bring the unique reduce the risk of ground cavities collection of users together into one which are prevalent in the chalk close Period facility. Detailed user briefings were to the ground surface on the site. 2014 to 2018 essential to identify the requirements of each research group and overall Services Provided brief for the building. Civil, structural and vibration engineering. SCIENCE 18
FEATURE PROJECT THE MÆRSK BUILDING
Biological laboratories for vibration-sensitive research at the University of Copenhagen
The Mærsk Building is an extension Support facilities such as the main of the existing Panum Complex, plant room and cycle parking are PROJECT DETAILS located in the centre of Copenhagen. located at the base of the tower, The new facility will house 42,700m2 whilst the low-level wings around the Customer of teaching and research space for tower house a lecture theatre, kitchen, University of Copenhagen a collection of institutes that form canteen and teaching spaces. part of the Faculty of Health and Architect C F Møller Medical Sciences at the University of Our flexible design for the tower will Copenhagen. enable offices to be converted to Location laboratories in future and vice versa, Copenhagen We provided all engineering services allowing the facility to adapt to future on the project as sub-consultants changes with minimal disruption. Value to architects C. F. Møller, who were Confidential appointed as turnkey consultants. Project Countries Denmark The 75m tall, 15 storey tower at the centre of the building will provide Period 12 storeys of office and vibration- 2010 to 2016 sensitive laboratory space for state-of-the-art research in the areas Services Provided of cancer, heart disease, diabetes and Structural, mechanical, electrical, fire & safety, lighting design and allergies. facade engineering 19 RAMBOLL
FEATURE PROJECT ABCAM HQ
Commercial laboratory and office accommodation for Abcam, a biotechnology company with expertise in the development of specialist life science products
Abcam is a Cambridge success story, This includes building in future Initial recommendations from the having grown from a small start-up flexibility for upgrading to heavily- site investigation suggested that a founded in 1998 to an international serviced labs to suit a range of piled solution would be most likely. company operating in 130 countries tenants, and provision for additional Through Ramboll’s experience today. With 1000+ employees vibration-sensitive equipment. on the CBC site we were able to globally, they made the decision to engineer a ground level raft solution locate their new headquarters on the The building is split into two blocks, which provided significant cost Cambridge Biomedical Campus life one for laboratories and the other and programme savings as well as sciences cluster. office accommodation. The blocks are an inherently excellent vibration linked by a central feature staircase performance at no extra cost. Ramboll was appointed by to encourage collaboration. The Cambridge Medipark Ltd as the separation of the functional spaces developer and Abcam as tenant to enabled different slab thickness’s and provide civil, structural and vibration floor-to-floor height for each. The engineering services for the building result is that four storeys of office and and internal fit-out. three storeys of laboratory have been provided with similar roof heights As the first plot on Phase 2 of the across both blocks generating an CBC masterplan the building set the efficient use of space and external design principles for the rest of the envelope. development.
PROJECT DETAILS
Customer Cambridge Medipark Ltd / Abcam
Architect NBBJ
Location Cambridge
Value £35m
Project Countries United Kingdom
Period 2015-2019
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FEATURE PROJECT ROYCE INSTITUTE
A world-class materials science research facility forming the national hub of the Royce Institute in the centre of Manchester
Located at the heart of the University Ramboll led the civil, structural, Early in the design we identified of Manchester’s Engineering Campus, vibration, fire and acoustics design the structure as being ideal for the 16,000sqm Royce Institute taking account of the wide range pre-fabrication. We have developed will house world-leading materials of challenges. In particular we this concept through to construction scientists, state-of-the-art equipment championed the use of a typology enabling a high quality structure that and collaborative space for industrial approach where research within the is fast to construct. engagement. It will enable the UK to building is arranged in terms of types grow its world-leading research and of space as opposed to individual innovation base in advanced materials research groups. This has led to a science and technology. highly rational, flexible and affordable building. The building’s location in the centre of Manchester, along with the heavy Ramboll’s vibration expertise was duty spaces within the building, led fundamental to a robust design to challenges for the vibration design. concept. This was critical in defining The building is to house extremely the brief, carrying out surveys on site demanding characterisation and and developing the building design to imaging equipment that requires achieve the requirements. extremely low vibration levels.
PROJECT DETAILS
Customer University of Manchester / Arcadis
Architect NBBJ
Location Cambridge
Value £70m
Project Countries United Kingdom
Period 2015-2019
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Royce Discovery Centre Graphene Engineering Innovation The new Royce Discovery Centre Centre, University of Manchester (RDC) at the University of Sheffield New state of the art pilot production will form part of the Henry Royce facilities . Institute for Advanced Materials, a collaboration between nine research We are providing specialist vibration partners with a central hub at the design services for this £35m building Royce Institute in Manchester. in the heart of Manchester. As the follow-on building to the National The RDC will focus on early-stage Graphene Institute this building will research on materials discovery house highly sensitive imaging and and processing, working alongside characterisation equipment. the existing Translational Centre to bridge the gap between research We have been involved throughout and industrial applications. The the project to develop a highly new building will house a series of efficient design that achieves the specialist laboratories, including onerous technical requirements. some that are sensitive to vibration, together with office and meeting Addenbrooke’s Clinical Research space. Facility World leading clinical research facility Ramboll are providing MEP and The Addenbrooke’s Clinical Research vibration engineering services for the Centre (ACRC) Expansion comprises project. five storeys of clinical research space including day rooms, in-patient Novo Nordisk Måløv Site, accommodation and facilities, Copenhagen behaviour observation units and two We have a long history of providing procedure suites, one of which is a multi-disciplinary design service dedicated to endoscopy. 01 for pharmaceutical research and production facilities for Novo Nordisk, A basement provides an MRI facility including extensive new development as well as storage, waste-handling and refurbishment at their site in and plant room space. Måløv, Copenhagen. Maxwell Centre, University of Chemical Engineering and Cambridge Biotechnology Furthering collaboration between Construction of new office and industry and academic research in the teaching space at the University of Physics department. Cambridge. We provided civil and structural We provided civil and structural engineering and specialist vibration engineering services for this new services on this building for the £42m laboratory, office and teaching Department of Physics. The building building which brings together achieves highly flexible spaces, the University of Cambridge’s general laboratories and specialist departments of Chemical Engineering spaces with demanding requirements 02 and Biotechnology. Specialist for low vibration and magnetic laboratory spaces include highly performance. vibration-sensitive laser imaging suites, microscopy labs, NMR imaging Our detailed vibration survey at facilities, a class 10,000 cleanroom the start of the project allowed us and a BSL3 suite. to define the key vibration sources on site. Our design to improve the performance through adjustments to the road infrastructure on the site avoided the need for costly isolation systems.
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04 Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre, University of Manchester
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