Phase 1 accommodates the Institute for Advanced Technology and the Centre for Innovation and Enterprise. They will form the hub of an interdisciplinary centre of scientific and technological excellence, harnessing the creativity of the University’s academics.

Chemistry and biology research laboratories and support facilities focusing on the dry discovery process. The building comprised 12 chemical laboratories, three analytical laboratories, an NMR and Mass Spectroscopy lab and ACDP Level 2 labs.

Complete internal refurbishment of the top floor of a tower block, and other areas of the building such as procedure rooms and offices - with each area operating normally as work progressed. Stubbs Rich also redesigned and refurbished over 2,000sqm of laboratory suites bringing them up to ACDP Level 2.

The Sherrington Building is of a pre-war design, but post-war construction. It needed to be improved to provide state of the art laboratory space for two new academic positions.