The provision of Mechanical, Electrical & Public Health Services Engineering design services for the creation of the Research Centre for Rare Diseases in Children to be created at 20 Guilford Street.

The site is owned by the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity (GOSHCC) and is situated in Bloomsbury adjacent to Great Ormond Street Hospital, south of Guilford Street. North of the site is a park known as Coram Fields.. To the east of the site is Millman Street with largely residential buildings, to the south Millman Mews serves the residential and commercial properties south of the site and to the west is Lamb’s Conduit Street. It is anticipated that the existing building will be demolished and replaced with a new building providing laboratories and offices.

The brief is to build a cutting edge ‘state of the art’ research centre that will allow the Hospital to be world leaders in developing the fundamental basis of paediatric diseases, improving their ability to diagnose them and developing novel therapies for children. This centre will create a dynamic and inspirational environment where the Hospital can build upon their knowledge of human and molecular genetics, genetic, cellular and molecular therapies and other diagnostic modalities and also further enhance their capacity for developing innovative treatments.