Elevate Quarter

Reconnecting science with nature

The campus builds on Stevenage’s reputation as a leading life-sciences and pharmaceutical hub, providing new data-driven research and development facilities next to GSK’s established Global R&D facility, Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst and UK’s Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult.

We want to demystify science and make it more accessible to everyone, blurring the boundaries between science, data, and nature. On behalf of UBS Asset Management and Reef Group, we designed a campus around a central green space to encourage visitors to come in and explore.

1.6m sq ft

of lab, office and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) facilities

Social collisions are the bedrock of innovation. These encounters will be stimulated by shared places of exchange, both within buildings and outdoors.

The buildings will offer a variety of spaces, including R&D labs and offices, GMP manufacturing facilities and flexible lab buildings alongside two data centres. At ground level, the buildings have generous reception and lettable spaces to facilitate a range of amenity uses for staff and visitors.

The revised planning consent for Elevate Quarter marks an important and forward‑looking evolution of the scheme. By integrating two major data centres alongside life sciences and GMP facilities, we’re creating a more resilient, future proofed ecosystem that reflects how innovation is actually happening today. This shift strengthens Stevenage’s position as a nationally significant hub for advanced technologies and science, while bringing forward much needed regeneration of a brownfield site.

Biodiversity and growth will be accelerated across the campus through a radical landscape of new green and blue infrastructure. The science spaces will similarly allow ‘room to grow’ – for tenants of different sizes, who are able to scale up within a diverse ecosystem of spaces.

Conventional science parks can be repetitive and dull; ours will be colourful, vibrant and different. It will offer buildings with personality, underpinned by environmental and technical principles. The buildings will be low-carbon and energy-efficient, responding to the changing needs of tenants and providing climate resilience; utilising circular economy principles for maximum material efficiency and minimum waste of precious resources.

Environmental Intelligence

Connections between the campus, the town and its people will be further strengthened by excellent infrastructure and facilities, which will make taking public transport, walking, e-scooters and cycling a pleasure.

We have designed car parking places that are capable of being repurposed or disassembled and reused, allowing the campus to adapt over time.