Riverlabs - Creative Places

Overview

Rebuilding a Life Sciences Legacy without new buildings

An intelligent upgrade to create a vibrant, inclusive and sustainable campus.

We are intelligently upgrading purpose-built & existing former GSK laboratory spaces into a vibrant, adaptable and sustainable campus at the most affordable price in the Golden Triangle.

With phased developments planned from 2024 to 2026, our campus provides the perfect foundation for your company’s growth and future success. Secure your place in a cutting-edge facility designed to support your research and development needs.

Masterplan

Riverlabs is a 28 acre life science campus adjacent to GSK’s Ware facilities. The exciting vision for the campus will be delivered in multiple phases – Phase 1, totalling 90,255 sq ft, will be operational from Q2 2025. The campus will combine highly specified laboratory space with unparalleled amenity. Situated on the banks of the River Lea, with direct river access, and benefiting from onsite sports facilities such as tennis courts, playing fields and a 5-a-side football pitch, Riverlabs provides the perfect environment for life sciences businesses to thrive, both inside and outside of the lab.

Specification

Phase 1

Units available from 4,000 sq ft to 90,255 sq ft. Ready-built, affordable, CL2/3 wet laboratory and write-up space with:

Load bearing concrete floors
Strategically positioned drainage points
Floor to ceiling working heights up to 3.5m
Air handling units which can be configured to provide air changes up to 28 per hour
Vinyl over screed floor coverings to laboratory areas
Heating and cooling using air/water source heat pumps, AHU with Heat
Recovery Building hard piped throughout for bottled laboratory gases and compressed air network.
Internal/external gas bottle storage including gas cylinder storage (i.e. liquid nitrogen storage)
Secure loading and storage yard
Capacity for back up power provision
4MVA to Riverlabs from UKPN
Ducted fume cupboard provision with high density capacity
Parking ratio 1:375 sq ft (NIA)

Future Phases 2025 onwards

Future phases providing >250,000 sq ft of high-spec lab space will come forward from 2026 onwards. At this early stage we can design these phases to fit specific company requirements and their timeframes. Get in touch to see what we can design for you.

The Site

Parking ratio of 1:375 sq ft
Landscaped grounds
Sports pitches
Amenity offering
Riverside activities and amenities

Location

Welcome to Ware
Ware is an established life sciences location having been a strategic R&D location for GSK for over 50 years. So not only does it have a legacy of science, it also has a huge pool of talent that call it home. It’s also a beautiful, thriving place to live and work.

Benefits of Ware

Local talent pool
University graduates to seasoned scientists and lab specialists within easy reach

Affordable housing
More affordable housing, both to rent and buy, than London and Cambridge

Good school options
Lots of OFSTED good and outstanding nurseries, primary and secondary school options

Ware sits on the emerging Cambridge to Kings Cross life sciences Innovation Corridor within a 45 min radius of London, Cambridge and Stevenage, the established Cell and Gene Therapy cluster. This makes Riverlabs a highly desirable location for fast growing life sciences companies or contract research and manufacturing organisations wanting easy access to customers anywhere in the ‘Golden Triangle’.

Located 11 miles from Stevenage and approximately equidistant between the A1(M) and M11 motorways, Riverlabs provides excellent access to London and Cambridge.

By Foot
Town Centre: 12 minutes
Train Station: 15 minutes

By Road
A1(M): 11 miles
Stevenage: 11 miles
M25 J25 via A10: 12 miles
M11 J8: 20 miles
Cambridge: 32 miles
Oxford: 78 miles

By Rail
London Liverpool Street: 45 minutes
Oxford Circus: 58 minutes
London Waterloo: 69 minutes

By Air
Stansted Airport: 16 miles
Luton Airport: 23 miles
London City Airport: 32 miles
Heathrow Airport: 42 miles
Gatwick Airport: 68 miles