Nucleus Building, Edinburgh University
The Project
The £48 million pound Nucleus Building designed by Sheppard Robson Architects and delivered by McLaughlin & Harvey is a shared learning, teaching and social hub at the heart of the King’s Buildings Campus in Edinburgh.
The building provides more than 400 student study spaces within a broad selection of teaching spaces and student study spaces in a mix of formal and informal environments spread over five floors. Including five lecture theatres, two large studio classrooms and a specialist teaching laboratory. There are also various breakout, group pods and touchdown spaces located throughout the building as well as a café and a large central atrium providing views around the building and out to a woodland area.
The building achieves the highest environmental certification rating of EPC, an A rating, in part to do with recycling and reusing 200 tonnes of demolition material from the building that previously stood on the site.
PFP installed a full range of British Gypsum internal metal stud partition systems within the project which required special attention to acoustic properties to meet the building’s demanding design requirements. The ceiling specifications required precise and complex installation and detailing and included British Gypsum plasterboard ceilings in conjunction with SAS metal ceilings, as well as Danotile and Zentia exposed grid installations. All ames taping and decoration finishing works were also carried out by PFP, with bright accent colours being used throughout the building
Scope of Works
Partitions
Ceilings
Decorations