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News Release from: Shepherd Engineering Services
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial Team on 21 May 2002

Shepherd completes cancer research
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Shepherd Engineering Services (SES), has recently completed the new cutting edge Hutchison/Medical Research Council (MRC) Research Centre.

Shepherd Engineering Services (SES), has recently completed the new cutting edge Hutchison/Medical Research Council (MRC) Research Centre Situated on the Addenbrookes Hospital site in Cambridge, the new Centre will be a major player in cancer research and house some of the country's leading scientists in this field

This is the third significant project SES has completed at the Addenbrookes Hospital site over the past four years.

The new four-storey centre has the capacity to hold approximately 140 bench workers.

The first floor contains meeting/tea rooms, dark rooms and histology rooms.

The three remaining floors are then dedicated to state of the art laboratory suites, supported by many of the technical core facilities including IT, DNA sequencing and high throughput resources for molecular pathology and molecular cytogenetics.

SES's GBP 4 million contract included all the mechanical and electrical building services to the new centre.

The main contractor on the project was Laing.

Following a keynote speech by the Minister for Science and Innovation, Lord Sainsbury of Turville, the Hutchison/MRC Research Centre will be officially opened by Sir Ka-shing Li, the Chairman of Hutchison Whampoa Limited on Saturday 18th May 2002.

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