Morgan Sindall scoops £26m King's College London contract

Neuroscience facility will provide laboratory, seminar and office space for 220 researchers

Article posted: 28 Feb 2011

Morgan Sindall has been selected as the preferred bidder for a £26m project to build a centre of excellence for neuroscience research at King’s College London.

The firm has been appointed to deliver a five-storey facility that will house the Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute at the college’s Denmark Hill West Campus. The centre will see King’s College London and King’s College Hospital work together to create one of Europe’s leading facilities for neuroscience research.

The scheme, which was designed by Devereux Architects with Allies & Morrison, will provide accommodation for more than 220 researchers, a 100-seat flexible seminar room and office space at the South East London campus. It will also create a new public court between the James Black Centre, the Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute and the Weston Education Centre.

Peter Jacobs, the recently appointed managing director for Morgan Sindall London, says: “It was a tough tender process and we’re delighted to be working with one of the UK’s leading medical research institutions. It will also make a significant contribution to our growth plans for the London region and highlights our expertise and capability in delivering technically-challenging major projects.”

The centre will bring a bold new approach to a range of neurological and psychiatric conditions which affect millions of people and for which there are currently few effective treatments. These include strokes, dementia, Parkinson’s Disease, motor neurone disease, brain tumours, epilepsy, schizophrenia and depression.

The new facility is due to be completed in spring 2013.

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