{"id":4630,"date":"2019-04-03T08:32:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T08:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=4630"},"modified":"2019-04-03T08:32:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T08:32:37","slug":"isg-lands-new-281m-london-neurology-centre-for-ucl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/isg-lands-new-281m-london-neurology-centre-for-ucl\/","title":{"rendered":"ISG lands new \u00a3281m London neurology centre for UCL"},"content":{"rendered":"

ISG has been appointed as UCL\u2019s main contractor to begin pre-construction work on a new neurology centre in central London.<\/p>\n

ISG will now focus on design and procurement for the \u00a3281m research facility that will serve as a hub for the UK Dementia Research Institute and a new home for the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology.<\/p>\n

The project team is being led by consultant Arcadis, which will provide\u00a0project management, cost management and specialist support services.<\/p>\n

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An existing design team, novated to ISG, will be led by the architectural firm Hawkins\/Brown and includes the engineering consultancies Hoare Lea and Rambol.<\/p>\n

Building work is due to begin early next year with completion scheduled for late 2023 in readiness for a process of migration and occupation in 2024.<\/p>\n

Construction information specialist Glenigan<\/em> has a rival bidders list of BAM, McAlpine,Bouygues and Laing O’Rourke.<\/p>\n

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The new development is part of Transforming UCL – a \u00a31.25bn ten-year programme of investment in UCL\u2019s estate to support the university\u2019s continuing growth. <\/span><\/p>\n

Professor Alan Thompson, Dean of the UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences, said: \u201cThe new site will provide a home to three world-leading organisations: the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, the headquarters and UCL component of the UK Dementia Research Institute, and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.<\/p>\n

\u201cBringing these three powerhouses together under one roof will create the leading translational neurology research centre in the world, delivering innovative new discoveries and translating these into treatments that improve the health of patients suffering with dementia and other neurological diseases.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe new site, within minutes of Queen Square, will provide state-of-the-art facilities and enabling technologies, ensuring that our research scientists have the very best chance of discovering new treatments for these devastating diseases.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lee Hutchinson, Managing Director for ISG\u2019s Science and Health Business, said: \u201cWe are delighted to have been chosen as the main contractor to design and build UCL\u2019s new world-class facility for neurological research, allowing us to showcase our specialist expertise in this sector.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt ISG we thrive on fostering innovation and collaboration, and we encourage our people to think differently and deliver smarter environments.<\/p>\n

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“We\u2019re proud to be working with UCL again to deliver a science and healthcare facility of exceptional quality.<\/p>\n

“A vital space will be created for scientists, researchers and clinicians of this world-renowned institute, to discover new ways to diagnose, treat and ultimately prevent one of the greatest health challenges of our time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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from Construction Enquirer https:\/\/ift.tt\/2I8R09q<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ISG has been appointed as UCL\u2019s main contractor to begin pre-construction work on a new neurology centre in central London. ISG will now focus on design and procurement for the \u00a3281m research facility that will serve as a hub for the UK Dementia Research Institute and a new home for the UCL Queen Square Institute […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-4630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4631,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630\/revisions\/4631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}