University chiefs have signed off the £300m plan and will now apply for formal planning permission for the project, which it hopes will be completed by 2021.
The project ranks as one of the most ambitious in the University’s long-running expansion programme.
The Government has committed to invest £75m into the new Cavendish laboratory, with the university also reported to have received a £150m philanthropic gift to contribute towards the cost of the new lab.
It is proposed that the buildings will include several high-tech specialist labs, teaching labs, seminar rooms and two lecture theatres.
Cavendish laboratory redevelopment
Professional team
- Architecture: Jestico + Whiles
- Cost Management: Aecom
- Project management: Currie & Brown
- Civil and structural engineering: Ramboll UK
The new Cavendish complex will be built at the Paddocks site at its West Cambridge Development. Once the Department of Physics moves out of the existing Cavendish lab, the site will be used to build a new Department of Engineering, also approved by the university.
The New Cavendish Laboratory is planned to be built on the East Paddock site next to the Veterinary School
The masterplan is to bring together experimental groups including quantum matter, semiconductor physics, surfaces, microstructure and thin film magnetism.
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