Europe’s largest, hi-tech life sciences building is planned for UK

At a time when lab space is running short in the UK, the British property company Canary Wharf Group and Dutch real estate developer Kadans Science Partner have announced plans to build a state-of-the-art commercial health and life sciences building at Canary Wharf’s North Quay in London. It will be a 23-storey, nearly 76,500m² tower that is expected to represent Europe’s largest and most technologically advanced life sciences facility. The building is planned to be part of a larger scheme that will provide 325,000m² of lab and related space.

‘The building has been designed to allow up to 60% of laboratories, with the ability to provide chemistry and high containment facilities,’ the two companies said, noting that it will also feature lab space on every floor.