Earth-coloured terracotta fins form a decorative shading screen over a structurally reinforced glass curtain wall frame.

This new nine-storey research facility includes staff offices, flexible laboratory spaces, and teaching facilities for the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, and the School of Biotechnology and Bimolecular Sciences.

It has the capacity to accommodate around 400 staff and PhD researchers and 200 undergraduate biomedical students. The building facades are formed from unitised curtain walls, which include angled arrays of vertical terracotta sunshades.

Prism Facades were engaged by specialist facade subcontractor Sharvain Projects to provide full engineering and certification of the facade systems and sunshades.