UKHSA

Rapid delivery was vital to the UK’s Covid response. Our seamlessly integrated approach, with all the necessary specialists and expert skills in-house, was the only way to deliver these large, complex and very sensitive projects for UK Government at high speed. These twin buildings, one a shell fit-out and the other a completely new build designed by T-SQUARED from the ground-up as a dedicated CL3 containment facility, are among the world’s most advanced and highest-performing specialist vaccine testing centres. VTF 1 was one of the first places to genome sequence Covid-19.

Our uniquely specialised bio-containment design experience enabled us to meet the requirements of the ACDP and LPS1175 with a meticulous approach to construction. T-SQUARED provided a fully integrated design and build solution, with particular attention to bio-security, critical building services, and electrical services.

Our expert engineering teams designed the complex building services to be manufactured offsite on a modular basis for fast installation. This significantly accelerated testing and commissioning and allowed more time for our in-house validation teams to conduct performance integrity testing. Each laboratory had its own separate HVAC and M&E package to avoid any issues cascading across multiple areas.