The U2 building created a facility to support the respiratory product stream manufacturing of asthmatic inhalers for the US market. The building forms phase 1 of a major new development and production facility. A fast-track project, taking one year from inception to completion and product manufacture, the building was designed to enable fit-out to progress in tandem with the external fabric and to allow work to progress at all levels.

Client: GSK

Involvement: RIBA stages 0-7

Construction Value: £12million

Ground Floor: 1200 sqm

Mezzanine: 350 sqm

First Floor: 1,000 sqm

Ground Floor: 2500sqm

First Floor: 1350 sqm

Mezzanine Floors: 350 sqm

Second Floor: 1225 sqm

Human Performance Centre

High Dependency Unit, QMC

Project involved the remodelling of ground floor areas to form a new movement lab and briefing room. The first floor was remodelled to form new sensory labs, product branding lab and support areas.

Simons Design provided architectural design services to develop Concept, Scheme and Detail Design proposals and provided technical support throughout the pre-construction and construction phases, to handover.

Client: GSK

Construction Value: £2 million

Involvement: RIBA stages 0-7

LAS Research Facility

This project involved the refurbishment of the existing LAS Facility at the GSK Stevenage site. This featured the facilitation of the relocation of the transgenics facility, associated laboratory and ancillary accommodation. This also included changing rooms, VHP chambers, storerooms and office areas. In addition to these works, the project also included the refurbishment of the building rack and tunnel washing facility and the associated ancillary accommodation.

Client: GSK

Construction Value: £7 million

Involvement: RIBA stages 0-7

Oral Solid Dose Pilot Plant Building

This project involved the remodelling of Flexible Clean Room Facilities and a storey extension.

The remodelling works included the development of a new mezzanine floor to support services distribution and maintenance outside of the cleanroom environments.

The facilities have incorporated optimum flexibility in that they allow expansion of suites both in plan and height to accommodate new processes and equipment in the future.

Refurbishment of existing ancillary ward accommodation to create two four-bed high dependency wards and remodel the existing patient and support facility, improving monitoring of patients and staff facilities. Minimise disturbance to existing fabric due to location on 4th floor and occupied facility adjacent, above and below. Improve visitor and family waiting areas and the staff breakout facilities.

Remodel existing six-bed wards to four-bed wards. Creation of a new nurses’ station located to improve patient monitoring. Remodel exist single bed facilities and create new en-suites. Improved patient care through better monitoring and observation of patients through the improved design.

Client: GSK

Construction Value: £10 million

Involvement: RIBA stages 0-7

Client: Nottingham NHS Hospitals and Queen’s Medical Centre.

Construction Value: £350K

Involvement: RIBA stages 0-7

Ground Floor: 1500sqm

Mezzanine Floor: 1200sqm

Drug Testing Facilities

Commissioned: March 2009

Start on Site: October 2009

Completion on site: March 2010

Operational: July 2010

Client: GSK

Construction Value: £1.8million

Involvement: RIBA stages 0-7

Concept Design Commenced: February 2015

Start on Site: January 2017

Completed: December 2017

8 week construction phase

Drug Testing Facilities for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympics Games. The project involved the remodelling of existing Laboratory Facilities to accommodate both Olympic and non Olympic Drug testing facilities for sample testing prior to the commencement of the Games and the Games Period. The facility included analytical Laboratories, Blood and EPO Testing Laboratories and Ancillary Sample Storage and Staff Welfare Facilities.

Detail Design Completed: December 2010

Start on Site: January 2011

Handover: July 2011

Ground Floor: 2750sqm

First Floor: 500sqm