Unigro - November 2010

Unigro, the leading provider of controlled environments to universities and other research institutes, has won the contract to provide a state-of-the art quarantine facility for the Royal Botanic Gardens,Kew.

The project, due to be commissioned next March, will provide a facility to replace Kew Gardens' existing Quarantine House, built in 1989. Unigro, in response to Kew's challenging and detailed Employers Requirements is designing and building contained chambers within the facility - individual, isolated bays with precise controllable climates for temperature, relative humidity, day length and light levels.

While the design has been developed with containment as the top priority, sustainability issues have been addressed wherever possible.

Keith Hamp, Commercial Director at Unigro said: "We are hugely excited about this project. Our brief was to provide highly contained facilities, which not only work in a sustainable way, but also have the capability for flexible expansion and increased functionality for the future. We look forward to providing Kew with a complex that will be worthy of its worldwide reputation."

Dr Nigel Taylor, Curator at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew said: "We are delighted to be working with Unigro on this project. The company has long experience of designing and building quarantine facilities, understood our needs and offered the best design and build package at a competitive price"

For further enquiries please contact Sarah Whelband on 01732 779087

Unigro
Unigro is a leading provider of controlled environments such as contained greenhouses, growth chambers, clean rooms, walk-in chambers and other research facilities. Its GroDome and GroRoom ranges are in use in major universities and research institutes throughout the UK, and have been designed and constructed to provide the highest level of research capability.

Unigro is a member of the Billings Group, an organisation with more than 40-years experience in farming applications and construction projects. Within this partnership Unigro can offer a range of skills and disciplines, which means clients benefit from a full service solution. From design to construction, Unigro provides state of the art controlled environment facilities. Visit www.unigro.co.uk for more information.

The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (www.kew.org) is a world famous scientific organisation, internationally respected for its outstanding living collection of plants and world-class Herbarium as well as its scientific expertise in plant diversity, conservation and sustainable development in the UK and around the world. Kew Gardens is a major international visitor attraction. Its landscaped 132 hectares and Kew's country estate, Wakehurst Place, attract nearly 2 million visitors every year. Kew was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in July 2003 and celebrated its 250th anniversary in 2009. Wakehurst Place is home to Kew's Millennium Seed Bank, the largest wild plant seed bank in the world. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and its partners have collected and conserved seed from 10% of the world's wild flowering plant species (c.30, 000 species) and aim to conserve 25% by 2020.


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