Summer 2012 Bloomsbury campus building works

Significant building and refurbishment works are taking place across campus over the summer following the end of this academic year.

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