HawkinsBrown - The Beecroft Building

The £50 million Beecroft Building provides world-leading facilities for physics research in the heart of the University of Oxford’s science area.
The 8,950 sqm building brings together 200 researchers from theoretical and experimental physics, uniting the two disciplines within one facility. The design transforms the way the Department works, encouraging two disciplines to share an environment for work more akin to a modern workplace than an institutional research facility. The building sits above the deepest basement in Oxford: a sixteen metre-deep complex of high specification laboratories intended to house extremely sensitive experiments that will advance the University’s research into areas such as quantum science and technology, and the fundamental laws of nature.
Oxford University Estates Services directed the project team, with architect Hawkins\Brown leading the design of the project in collaboration with contractor Laing O’Rourke, project manager WSP, structural engineer Peter Brett Associates, Landscape architect BD Landscape and M&E engineer Hoare Lea.
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