Vaccine Testing Facilities
VTF1: £10m
VTF2: £16m
VTF1: 2745m2
VTF2: 2745m2
VTF1: 24 weeks
VTF2: 52 weeks
Spearheading the UK’s life-saving pandemic response with dedicated world-leading research laboratories. These highly specialised bio-secure workspaces develop and test new vaccines against emerging pandemics.
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.
This state-of-the-art facility will be critical in bolstering the UK’s future pandemic response, helping to keep us safe for years to come.