Davis Langdon is leading the team and providing Project Management, Cost Management and FM/LCM cost inputs. DEGW is at the heart of the project undertaking all engagement and briefing workshops with the University stakeholders to develop the strategy and the spatial profile which Bennetts Associates will then shape into options proposals. GVA Grimley is providing Land Use Planning and Development advice.

The feasibility study commences immediately and the options appraisal, in line with HM Treasury Green Book Guidelines, will be completed in March 2011.

This is a significant success for the collaborative efforts of Davis Langdon and DEGW in the Higher Education sector in Scotland, supported by UK wide sector input. This is another successful win for DEGW  following on from its current Faculty of Art, Design and Media project at the University of Sunderland.

Davis Langdon offered the University a new way, via DEGW, for the Estates & Buildings Department to engage with its academic colleagues and remove some of the pre-conceptions that have traditionally polarised engagement between estates and academics.

The School of Biological Sciences at the University of Edinburgh is one of the largest and most comprehensive in Britain, comprising six research focussed institutes in Cell Biology, Structural and Molecular Biology, Molecular Plant Sciences, Stem Cell Research, Evolutionary Biology and Immunology and Infection. With grant income in excess of £118m the School is at the leading edge in fundamental biological research and innovative multidisciplinary science.