The Energy Technologies Building has been designed by a team comprising Maber (architect), Price & Myers (structural engineer) and Aecom (M&E).
The university says that the facility will “bring together world-class experts in energy research”.
Professor Alan Dodson, pro-vice-chancellor for infrastructure, said: “The Energy Technologies Building will reinforce Nottingham’s place in the vanguard of global energy research.
“This exciting initiative on our Innovation Park will further our strategic objective for the old Raleigh site to become an exemplar of sustainable development. This is particularly fitting for a building which will accommodate world-leading research into energy technologies, and we’ll be working hard with the architects and contractors to produce the University’s, and one of the country’s, lowest-carbon buildings — not an easy task with the laboratory facilities demanded by such a research centre.”
The new 2500m² building will comprise specialist laboratories, a prototype hall, an exhibition area, a rooftop laboratory zone, offices and external technology area for use as an energy testing facility.
Along with the Universities of Birmingham and Loughborough, the University of Nottingham is a partner in the Midlands Energy Consortium and the UK’s billion-pound Energy Technologies Institute (ETI). The ETI was set up to speed the UK’s efforts to establish a low-carbon economy and is a major public-private partnership that includes companies such as BP, Caterpillar, EDF Energy, E.On, Rolls-Royce and Shell.
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