A multimillion-pound science ‘superlab’ is nearing completion at Nottingham Trent University. Work on the building, sited on the Clifton campus, is almost finished and it will house high-specification laboratories and equipment in support of chemistry and bioscience teaching and research activities in the university’s School of Science and Technology.
The facility will include a large multi-use laboratory which will allow up to 200 students to work simultaneously. This shared space will also facilitate collaboration across different disciplines, enabling today’s broad range of scientific issues to be addressed holistically.
The laboratory will incorporate an imaginative teaching environment, with staff and students utilising tablet technology in place of traditional paper methods of record-keeping. A specialist camera system is also being installed to permit the capture of high-quality videos, screening experiments due to be undertaken by the students both before they enter the laboratory and as they recreate them.
A range of leading research by university experts will be housed in the building, including the latest internationally-renowned 3D security scanning and vision systems work and research into nanomedicine – the medical application of nanotechnology.
Staff are about to move into the building and it will be used for teaching from the start of the 2012/2013 academic year.