Building B Unity Campus - Creative Places

Overview

Unity Campus is an exciting new urban innovation district in the heart of the Cambridgeshire countryside.Campus owners Howard Group, a Cambridge-based family business with a 50-year track record as a long-term property investor and developer, is transforming the site of a former tannery into a stunning modern workplace.

Located 8 miles south of Cambridge, the 11-acre Campus which is already home to 12 leading life science and technology companies, is undergoing a major expansion. Three new laboratory buildings are due for completion by the end of 2023 and a further three buildings by the end of 2025 providing an additional 150,000 sq ft of floorspace. Other out-dated industrial units have been sustainably repurposed into state-of-the-art offices and laboratories adjacent to a well-equipped fitness centre.

The masterplan for the compact site has been purposefully designed to foster business interactions and friendships. Building on the industrial legacy of the nearby villages of Sawston and Pampisford, the bold urban aesthetic of the buildings is being off-set by a network of connected green spaces and water meadows as well as a landscaped courtyard with a multi-purpose clubhouse.

Community, societal impact and sustainability underpin every aspect of the operation and development of the Campus.

By merging the traditional and modern, urban and rural, business and social, Unity Campus offers an entirely different working environment to all other science and research parks in the Cambridge area creating a wider choice of location for technology and life science companies seeking laboratories or offices.

Specification

Areas provided on a GIA basis’

Ground Floor – 10,183 sq ft
First Floor – 10,194 sq ft
Second Floor – 10,194 sq ft
Roof – 431 sq ft
Total – 31,000 sq ft

Car Parking Spaces: 91

Entrance/reception area
60/40 lab/office split
Porivsion for 4 ducted fume hoods
Offices delivered to Cat A open plan

6.6m grid
3.9m slab to slab
1x passenger lift and 1 x goods lift
Toilet and shower facilities on all floors
Dedicated plant facilities
6 Air Changes per hour to the lab areas
Drear servicing
External storage
Targeting BREEAM Excellent
EPC Rating B
WELL enabled with defined embodied carbon target <750kgCO2e/m2

Location

Unity Campus is one of the best-connected technology & innovation parks in the region, with access to excellent air, rail, road and cycling infrastructure. It sits in a prime location close to public transport links (Whittlesford Parkway station is under a mile away), community activities and amenities in nearby Sawston, cycle networks into central Cambridge and some of the region’s most affordable housing and Stansted Airport is located less than half an hour away by road. This combination of accessibility from a travel and amenity perspective is something that sets it apart from other ‘out of town’ science park locations in the cluster. The regeneration of this area of south Cambridgeshire, which is already attracting a young, dynamic business community, will in turn bring economic benefits to the surrounding areas.

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