Daresbury’s £8.5m Vanguard House completes
A MAJOR new £8.5m building offering office and laboratory space at Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus (Daresbury SIC) has just been completed.
The 36,000 sq ft Vanguard House building, which had received funding from the NWDA, has been designed to provide “grow-on” space for the 100-or-so businesses within the centre, and to attract new companies to the area, which was recently granted Enterprise Zone status.
The building will be owned by the joint venture partnership responsible for Daresbury SIC, comprising developer Langtree, Halton Borough Couincil and the Science and Technology Facilities Council.
The three-storey building has been clad in aluminium which adapts its colour depending on daylight rays. It contains suites and laboratory space ranging in size between 1,010 to 2,486 sq ft and has been built to BREEAM ‘Excellent’ standard.
John Downes, chairman of Daresbury SIC and managing director at Langtree, said: “The campus exists to support the growth of high-tech companies through innovation and collaboration and Vanguard House will further strengthen our position at the forefront of the regional and national knowledge community.
“There is already a buzz about Vanguard House and we have had numerous enquiries from innovative firms in fields such as biomedical technologies, digital solutions and instrumentation. The broad variety of high quality companies interested in the building gives us great confidence that Vanguard House will be as successful as the other buildings on the campus.”
