Mott MacDonald is working as design engineer on a new £12.5m facility at the University of Dundee.

The Centre for Translational and Interdisciplinary Research (CTIR) will be dedicated to translating research into cures for disease.

A four-storey development, the research building will be in the university’s School of Life Sciences and will join the existing Wellcome Trust Building via an atrium.

The facility will consist of laboratories and associated office space and will include a laboratory and open-plan floor dedicated to interdisciplinary research in mathematical biology, biophysics, bioinformatics, data analysis and software development

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The adjoining atrium will be used as meeting and collaboration space and will feature an exhibition area with digital media installations.

On the front facade of the CTIR building, four large 1.5m wide x 3.6m high vertical anodised aluminium cladding panels will be constructed.

The panels will feature an artistic abstraction representative of four aspects of life science research: molecular, organellar, cellular and tissue.

Mott MacDonald is providing civil and structural design for the building and for the new steel framed glazed atrium.

Kevin Burnett, Mott MacDonald’s project director, said: "One of the key aspects of this project has been how to keep vibration to the existing users of the adjacent buildings to a minimum. We’ve had a number of discussions with the University of Dundee and we have adopted construction methodology to minimise vibration potential."

It is due to be completed by the end of 2013.

(IT)