Plans for a new £113m University of Glasgow, Scotland research hub have been given the green light by the city council. Multiplex will now proceed with full-scale building work on the scheme, after beginning piling works onsite earlier this month.
The 17,000-square-meter research hub, designed by HOK Architects, will be the first building to be constructed on the 14-acre site of the former Western Infirmary, a teaching hospital in the city that closed down in 2015.
Part of a wider £1bn campus development program, masterplanned by AECOM and 7N Architects, the hub will be a vibrant, collaborative facility at the heart of the Western campus, hosting over 600 academics, post-doctoral researchers and Ph.D. students working in the fields of health, business, chemistry and the arts.
The first phase of the development is due to open in 2021.
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