Summer 2012 Bloomsbury campus building works
27 June 2012
Significant building and refurbishment works are taking place across campus over the summer following the end of this academic year.
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Here is a summary of the works that are beginning over the summer:
Wilkins Octagon and Oculus
- Opening up the Oculus and creating exhibition space at the heart of the Wilkins building.
Darwin
- 6th floor Computational Biology suite
- 4th floor laboratory for biology and basement peptide synthesis facility
50/51 Gordon Square
- Refurbishment for the Institute of Americas
1-4 Malet Place
- Data laboratory facility for the Jill Dando Institute
Medical Sciences & Anatomy
- 4th floor and basement laboratories for Biosciences
Chadwick Building
- Works to create a basement Geotechnics laboratory
Former Royal Ear Hospital
- Work for Bartlett to create warehouse type fit out on ground, second and third floors
The Podium, Eversholt Street
- 1st floor fitting out
External redecoration and repair contract - Bloomsbury Campus
- Scaffolding will be erected on the North and South elevations of the Medical Sciences Building and the Malet Place elevations of Egyptology for a programme of external redecoration and repairs
1-19 Torrington Place
- Concrete repair and external redecoration - scaffolding will be erected on the 11 storey elevations of the building for repairs to the concrete columns and panels and redecoration of windows etc.
- Replacement of heating boilers and clorifiers in basement plant room.
- Replacement of life expired versatemp units.
- Upgrade to lighting controls.
Christopher Ingold Building
- Renewal of roof coverings
- Replacement of chiller unit on roof.
- Replacement of air handling units to main lecture theatres
Bentham House
- Installation of pipe work and radiators for new heating system
Replacement of passenger lifts
- Chadwick Building
- Darwin Building
- 25 Gordon Street
- Central Collegiate Building
- MRC Building
3-4 Taviton Street
- Installation of new fire alarm system and emergency lighting
Gordon House
- Renewal of boilers in basement plant room and water hygiene works
Roberts Building
- Phase 3 of renewal of heating system
ACBE Building
- Renewal of steam and condense infrastructure.
- Replacement of fan coil units.
Medical Sciences
- Electrical switchgear and distribution replacement
Malet Place Engineering
- Modifications to existing heating mains
Malet Place/Anatomy yard
- Replacement of combined heat and power transformers, and relocation of units to external compound opposite boiler house
Rockefeller Building
- Repair of main roof covering
Greg Beach, Director of Capital Projects and Ana De'Ath, Engineering & Maintenance Team
Leader, UCL Estates