Best Retrofit & Reuse Building
Area
Area's laboratory project with Gen Two, a real estate developer focused on life sciences and office space, exemplifies a commitment to client satisfaction, technical excellence, sustainability, and innovation in adaptive reuse. This high-profile laboratory conversion demonstrates our team's ability to deliver exceptional results under challenging circumstances, while adhering to best practices in health and safety, sustainability, budget management, and supply chain collaboration.
Bond Bryan: Fairhursts
Cambourne 2020 isn’t a flashy showpiece—but rather a blueprint for outstanding methodology. The project brought together leading life science design and build specialists to translate a redundant office floor into low-carbon high-performance labs. An exceptionally strong emphasis on tight team integration, innovative construction methods, and embedded tenant engagement allowed the project to progress seamlessly without any disruption to the sensitive research activities within the larger building. This project proves that clients truly can have it all – with the project finishing on budget, ahead of schedule, aesthetically attractive, and completely future-proofed.
Shepheard Epstein Hunter
The transformation of UEA’s Grade II listed Lasdun Wall Building 3 delivers a world-class life sciences facility through innovative retrofit and extension. Stripped back to its frame and extended, the building will host adaptable modular labs, cutting-edge research spaces, and vibrant social learning areas — all while preserving its architectural heritage. Sustainability is at the heart of the project, with enhanced thermal performance, and energy-efficient design supporting UEA’s net-zero goals. Delivered in close collaboration with the client and supply chain, the scheme exemplifies technical excellence, innovation, and placemaking — setting a new standard for reuse in the life science sector.
AKT II
British Land and Royal London Asset Management
Hawkins\Brown, Mace Fit Out + Retrofit and Synnovis
