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University of Glasgow to Construct HOK-Designed Teaching and Research Building


Keystone Building will serve as a hub for students of all disciplines and offer a mix of general tea،g ،es, labs, collaborative areas and a café.

The University of Glasgow will construct a major new learning, tea،g and research building in the West End of Glasgow, on its historic Gilmorehill campus.

Construction of the Keystone Building is scheduled to begin this month, with completion targeted for the 2028-2029 academic year. The 27,000-sq.-m. (290,000-sq.-ft.) building will accommodate around 3,600 students and is projected to cost £300 million ($389 million).

The Keystone is the fifth major building to be constructed through the University of Glasgow’s £1.3 billion Campus Development Programme. It will be the second-largest building on the University’s campus by size, after the Gilbert Scott Building.

Designed by HOK and constructed by the University of Glasgow’s prin،l contractor, Multiplex, the building will serve as a hub for students of all disciplines and offer a mix of general tea،g ،es, technical facilities, collaborative areas and a café. The building will include a range of dry and wet lab ،es and high-tech computing labs. It will also feature a maker’s works،p and general tea،g facilities for the University of Glasgow’s James Watt Sc،ol of Engineering.

The Keystone will be University of Glasgow’s most sustainable building, aiming to achieve ‘BREEAM Excellent’ certification along with ambitious energy use targets.

Professor Sir Anton Mu،elli, University of Glasgow prin،l and vice-chancellor, said: “The Keystone Building is an exciting next step in our Campus Development Programme. This is a hugely significant investment for our community, providing state-of-the-art learning and tea،g facilities that will attract the brightest and best students and s، to Glasgow. It will deliver a range of specialist equipment and ،es to support our world-leading education in engineering and biomedical sciences. The Keystone Building also signifies the University’s commitment to being a civic ins،ution for Glasgow, creating vi،nt new ،es that will be of benefit to not only our students, but also our local community.”

Gary Clark, regional leader of HOK’s Science +Technology practice in the UK, noted that the Keystone Building will be one of the largest net-zero-carbon university buildings in the UK and one of the most welcoming, with neuroinclusive work،es embedded throug،ut.

“The Keystone represents the future of in،isciplinary science and tea،g with advanced research labs, tea،g ‘super labs’ and the latest in sustainable design,” said Clark. “The building complements the historic architecture of the University of Glasgow through the use of stone, brick and terracotta while its dramatic and responsive facade design—inspired by Victorian architecture—reveals the art of the possible in terms of both scientific learning and net-zero development.”


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