Developing Science and Technology Assets
Our front row view of UK research and development over five decades means that creativity and innovation flourishes in the spaces we help fund and develop.
Creating a new digital hub for Milton Keynes’ innovation economy
Our energy and enthusiasm for science and technology will help attract the fast-moving world of science to your next development project
From spinouts with two employees to FTSE 100 corporations with 2,000, we deeply understand the requirements of globally important research and development tenants and know how to best create office and laboratory spaces to enable their science.
By working across the life cycle of property throughout the Oxford to Cambridge Arc and across the UK, we can quickly benchmark comparable projects in the sector, informing your financial model, planning aims and leasing strategy.
We strive to create spaces that are valuable and attractive to the global market, ensuring your negotiations, refits and relocations go to plan; helping developers create and expand the innovation districts and research parks driving development in our markets.
As the research develops, so does real estate. The region’s most successful mixed-use developments, fuelled by the interaction between international business and academia, make sure they follow the science.
Service options
Biodiversity Net Gain
When the property sector was still grappling with mitigating environmental harm in development a decade ago, Bidwells was busy pioneering a start-to-finish net gain solution for a developer with a biodiversity deficit.
Development Consultancy
Our clients come to us for advice because we’ve been developing and managing science parks and city centre innovation districts in Cambridge, Oxford and Milton Keynes for more than half a century.
Development Funding and Joint Ventures
Our unique understanding of the nuts and bolts of developing property assets for the science and technology sector means we can find and select the right partner to help turn your vision into a reality.
Financial Modelling
Maximising your development returns in the science and technology space takes highly specialist knowledge. Building laboratories and growing science clusters is about more than developing commercial property.
Land Assembly
Whether you’re looking to create an out-of-town science park or a city centre research hub, acquiring land or joining forces with neighbours provides an opportunity to think big.
Pre-letting and Leasing Strategy
By leveraging our expert market insight into what science and tech occupiers need from their space and business location, you can align your proposals to fund and develop with confidence.
Project Management
Our project managers are a dominant force in the science and tech sector, in recent years delivering over £2.4million sq ft of S&T space across the Ox-Cam Arc.
Site and Option Analysis
With five decades of experience delivering science and technology projects, we have comparable data to inform the viability and opportunity of development across the Oxford to Cambridge Arc.
Sourcing Off-market and Market Opportunities
Moving into this exciting asset class means fighting off the competition. Our comprehensive knowledge of our chosen markets helps you access and thrive in the science and technology marketplace.
Strategic Planning Advice
Securing planning permission locks value into your development, but it is the early strategic and creative planning advice that creates it.
Oxford-Cambridge Arc: Beyond the Covid-19 Crisis
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Occupier consultancy
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Science and Technology Service Brochures
We've been the number one advisor to the science and technology sector in the UK for 50 years – ever since we helped Trinity College with the creation of Cambridge Science Park in the early 1970s.