Science, Research & High-Tech
Laboratories and cleanrooms — where vibration, containment and cleanliness are the spec.
Laboratory and high-tech construction measures success in microns and air changes. The frame and envelope are the conventional shared methods, linked below — but they are engineered for what happens inside: vibration-isolated slabs, containment suites with pressure cascades, and cleanrooms built dirty and cleaned in stages until the particle count says otherwise.
The four guides in this sector cover laboratory construction, cleanroom construction, containment facilities — where keeping things in is the whole point — and research campus infrastructure, the district-scale services backbone these buildings hang off. Validation regimes run long after practical completion; handover is a process, not a date.
What does Science, Research & High-Tech cover?
Process guides in Science, Research & High-Tech
- Laboratory Construction — A laboratory is a services installation with a building wrapped round it — benching, spines, gases, pure water and extract fitted into a shell that has to stay quiet, still and clean for decades.
- Cleanroom Construction — Rooms where the enemy is dust: ISO 14644 classification, airtight panel envelopes, HEPA-filtered air and pressure cascades, proven by particle counting before the process tools ever arrive.
- Containment Facilities (BSL Construction) — Laboratories built to keep things in — sealed envelopes, directional airflow, dampers, effluent treatment and witnessed testing, certified before a single pathogen crosses the door.
- Research Campus Infrastructure — The utilities, energy and ground engineering that let a science campus run: resilient power and cooling, gas farms, vibration-isolated slabs and buildings handed over in phases while research carries on next door.
Shared methods used in Science, Research & High-Tech
- Site Access & Enabling Works
- Piling & Deep Foundations
- Concrete Frame Construction
- Steel Frame Construction
- Floor Slabs & Screeds
- Façade & Cladding
- MEP First Fix
- MEP Second Fix & Commissioning
- Working In & Around Live Hospitals
- Testing, Handover & Snagging
Part of the Industrial & Specialist Facilities group.