The building’s fabric had a number of problems, ranging from leaking roofs through to extensive use of cementitious repairs to the delicate Ancaster limestone which had caused extensive erosion.
Bidwells project managers were appointed to assist the Bursar with the project management of the new student accommodation block, lecture theatre, seminar rooms and café facility.
England’s oldest university asked us to develop an urban extension on the edge of Cambridge for thousands of new homes and research units. It wanted to showcase its standing as a world-leader in research to entice the top brains from across the globe.
As project managers on the creation of the Investcorp Building, designed by the late Dame Zaha Hadid to house the Middle East Centre at St Antony's College, our role was to keep everything to strict time, budget and quality constraints.