Morgan Sindall has been appointed by Anglia Ruskin University to build its new £25 million Science Centre.

Located at Anglia Ruskin’s Cambridge Campus, the Science Centre will be a major new 7,906 sq. m facility, which brings together teaching, postgraduate and staff amenities for the different departments within the Faculty of Science and Technology.

The centre will include a 300-seat lecture theatre adapted for science subjects; a 200-seat super-laboratory providing flexible teaching space for all science disciplines; staff offices and a range of specialist teaching space.

The new building will replace the Bryant and Mellish Clark buildings and has been designed to complement the architecture in the surrounding architectural conservation area.

Its red brick exterior will mirror the historic academic buildings that make up the rest of the university campus. The roof has also been designed to be reminiscent of traditional sheet metal roof cladding.

The building will be aiming to achieve a BREEAM rating of Very Good. A total of 200 sq. m of the roof space is dedicated to photovoltaic panels which provide renewable energy.

When completed, the university will make a total carbon saving of over 30 per cent by using gas more efficiently and generating its own electricity.

Bob Ensch, area director at Morgan Sindall, said: “This new building will provide the university with a centre that offers first-class laboratory and teaching space all under one roof, helping to aid knowledge sharing and collaboration between departments and boosting the department’s research capabilities.

“We’re very pleased to have been appointed to this project. Delivering world-class science facilities is an area in which our team excels and we look forward to delivering a great centre for the university.”