A collaborative campus that champions multidisciplinary research

UCL’s vibrant new campus, which stands in the heart of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, pays homage to London’s greatest cultural and creative neighbouring institutions. With 34,000sqm of space comprising ground-breaking learning facilities, it’s a hub of creativity that unites multidisciplinary research.

The building creates a key interface with the wider Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park community. Its publicly accessible lower floors feature a curated programme of art and activities, including works by local artists, and landscaped outdoor settings providing a newly animated and accessible public realm.

Mace was appointed on the project in 2018 to support the client’s bold ambitions to deliver UCL’s single largest building to date as a ‘living lab’, centred around problem-solving and collaboration. Focused on promoting green outcomes and environmental consciousness in the delivery, through design, construction and on-site operation, the project team supported clean energy by keeping running costs and energy consumption to a minimum, and ensuring technologies on-site were economically viable while minimising health and safety risks.

Functioning as a high-performing building, Marshgate features key sustainable elements, from rainwater harvesting and underground cycle storage, to low energy LED lighting and highly efficient mechanical ventilation. The installation of heating and cooling technology retains energy and optimise indoor air quality in a bid to support health and wellbeing.