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.
With over £2bn of UK research facilities, Harwell has an international reputation for scientific discovery and innovation
Our teams are managing over 11.5m sq ft of laboratories, offices, data centres and manufacturing buildings, allowing us to provide trustworthy advice based on real data
Whether developing single labs, multi-tenant offices or whole science parks, we understand the environment needed for R&D businesses to flourish and take both a commercial and design viewpoint for optimal building specification.
We will invest quality time getting to grips with your key drivers, setting the overall parameters for the scheme. Our research examines competitor sites, marketplace demand, market value and optimal building specification and occupancy, and our portfolio of science and technology projects offers comfort that your project will be risk managed and delivered by sector experts.
Bringing together our investor, academia and R&D clients, we support the triple helix model of innovation catalysing the growth of the sector.
Our market-leading science and tech cluster analysis helps us to find profitable opportunities that will encourage the most productive results for science and technology businesses
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.
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.
Related projects
With over £2bn of UK research facilities, Harwell has an international reputation for scientific discovery and innovation
