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From large scale commercial developments to infrastructure and datacentres – we deliver best in class MEP services raising the bar on innovation and sustainable delivery.

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Our team of engineering specialists have delivered MEP services on over 60 projects including 40 Leadenhall Street, Nova Victoria, Heathrow airport and the Shard. By integrating early with a client’s project’s team, Mace MEP allows for quicker decision making resulting in safer, cost-effective delivery of exceptional quality. The breadth of our expertise ensures we can proactively advise on the best build strategy for saving time and money. Combined with our network of specialist supply chain partners, we offer a full-service solution that is comprehensive, compliant, and adaptable.

We add value from the start, from early design consultation to planning and delivery.

Mace was appointed to complete the construction, scientific fit-out and commissioning phases of the new AstraZeneca research and development centre in Cambridge – the company’s largest R&D facility in the UK. The development, known as DISC, is situated at the heart of the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, and will house more than 2,000 people when fully occupied. A major project, which Mace has been involved in since 2018, the DISC has been designed to the highest clinical standards and with openness and collaboration in mind. DISC will become one of AstraZeneca’s largest centres globally for oncology research, and will also focus on respiratory, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. Co-designed with AstraZeneca’s scientists and world-leading architects Herzog & de Meuron, the building incorporates innovative features such as ‘saw-tooth’ roof to make optimal use of natural light, which in turn aids energy efficiency, and the largest ground source heat pump in Europe.

The Discovery Centre (DISC)

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Cambridge AstraZeneca

Pharma and R&D

Investors & Developers

Pharma Manufacturing

Higher Education

Public Sector

Fit out and Refurb

Healthcare

ESG

Innovation

Mace was appointed by Legal & General to deliver a new £100m development on the University of Oxford’s Begbroke Science Park in 2022. Consisting of two lab-enabled buildings of around 135,000 sq ft in total, this addition to the park’s existing facilities will provide a commercial hub – aimed at companies wishing to establish a base close to the university’s academic community. Begbroke Science Park has been in operation for more than 20 years, and as the only park of its kind owned by the University of Oxford, is a sought-after location for those in the sector. The new research facilities will allow the site to expand its activity working with start-up and spin-out companies and help to retain this key talent in the region. To support this, Oxford University Property Development – the university’s joint venture with Legal & General – is developing plans for additional homes, community and commercial facilities locally.

Begbroke Science Park

Oxford Legal & General

Mace was appointed to deliver a new production facility at the company’s Macclesfield site in north-west England. Macclesfield is home to AstraZeneca’s second-largest manufacturing site and its European packing centre – a £380m development which employs more than 3,000 people. The new facility has been created to house production of the oncology drug, Zoladex. The fit-out involved the installation of manufacturing and environmental control equipment to meet the specific sterility demands of such a production facility. As the drug is only produced in Macclesfield, continued supply relies upon the site’s advanced manufacturing capabilities.

AstraZeneca

Macclesfield

UCL Marshgate forms part of the university’s UCL East campus, a new development located in Stratford’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. UCL’s concept of making the building a ‘living lab’, based around sustainability, problem-solving and collaboration, informed the design, construction and operation. Powered by 100% renewable electricity, the building incorporates various sustainable elements. It uses rainwater harvesting, low-energy LED lighting and efficient heating and cooling technology to retain energy and optimise indoor air quality. Environmental considerations were also a prime concern during the construction phase. Mace used Datascope to track mileage and carbon emissions from all transport to site deliveries. We eliminated the use of diesel generators on site, replacing them with electric and hybrid machinery, and trialled 100% renewably powered electric hand tools, cutting carbon emissions by over 700kg per year.

UCL Marshgate

London

The RFI unites scientists from across the UK in developing disruptive new technologies, both tackling major challenges in health and life sciences and accelerating the discovery of new treatments. Unique in structure, the ground floor of the facility has been designed for optimum stability, in order to house particularly sensitive scientific instruments. This requirement means the foundations of the ground floor are separated from the rest of the building to shield it from vibration. To prevent electromagnetic interference and create a stable environment for specialist technologies such as electron microscopy and mass spectrometry, stainless steel reinforcement was used in the structure, and iron free materials used in the fabric, finishes, and services.

Rosalind Franklin Institute (RFI)

Harwell Science & Innovation Campus, Oxfordshire Southern Construction Framework (SCF)

The refurbishment of the Tinsley Building, which houses the University of Oxford’s Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, required a full laboratory fit-out as well as extensive work to the fabric of the building. A highly complex project, the refurbishment required asbestos removal, replacement of lifts, windows and roofs and various structural alterations. Mace also installed control systems to ensure integrity and adaptability of environmentally controlled rooms, as well as laser interlock access to 13 laser laboratories. Mace provided bespoke lab furniture to all areas and lab equipment including bespoke optics tables, autoclaves, glass washes and steam kettle. Offices and admin areas were fitted out to a very high specification with oak glazed partitions, timber ceilings and bespoke oak desks and shelving

Tinsley University of Oxford

Macclesfield

The new Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) and dental treatment centre is one of the biggest specialist centres in Europe and will carry out 200,000 appointments per year and focus on pioneering research. Mace delivered a complex three-year programme bringing the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital and Eastman Dental Hospital together under one roof as part of the Trust’s estate-wide strategy. The new centre has been designed to put patients at its heart, with both design and building navigation planned to reflect how patients are treated. Combining traditional craftsmanship with modern production methods, Mace developed an innovative offsite hybrid façade mounting hand laid bricks on precast concrete frames. The façade design links the new building with its historical surroundings and through factory production the panels were delivered ahead of time.

UCLH

NHS London

We recognise that the Life science and Pharma sector is undergoing rapid change and as a purpose led business, we focus on transforming the built environment, reducing carbon and prioritising the creation of social value. Carbon reduction plan As a business we have taken a lead role in moving the construction industry towards a sustainable future. We achieved net zero carbon as a business at the end of 2020 and achieved a 50% carbon reduction and a 50% carbon offset. In 2021, we have moved towards a further 10% carbon reduction target year-on-year to 2026 Value to Society Mace remains committed to enhancing our social value and now publishes an annual ‘Value2Society’ figure – the result of independent review of more than 60 different performance measures, from the amount of renewable energy the company uses to the number of volunteering hours completed by its employees. In 2020, this figure was £474m – and there is now a target in place to reach £700m by 2026. Read more about our sustainability strategies here: SWF

ESG

Oxford Legal & General

The concept began as a desktop study before being taken to a full-scale factory test in 2021. Working with designers and specialist trade contractors from our supply chain, alongside funding from Innovate UK, the Mace developed a low carbon cassette as an alternative methodology for the construction of steel frames. Made with recycled steel and cement-free concrete the cassettes are precast eliminating the need for metal decking, a floor constructed with these cassettes could potentially reduce its carbon footprint by as much as 75%, when compared with traditional materials and techniques.

Innovation

Low Carbon cassettes

Mace supported the delivery of the Rosalind Franklin Laboratory in Leamington Spa – a world-class test processing facility which formed part of the UK Government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The facility, created within an existing 225,000 sq ft warehouse building, was set up to process hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 tests per day. Mace introduced offsite construction techniques and worked with partners WSP and HOK to develop innovative design solutions to support its fast-track delivery. In addition, the use of technologies such as Building Information Modelling (BIM) and a Project Delivery Management System (PDMS) helped to deliver the project in less than one year. The workspace addresses both technical and social concerns. Sample processing takes place on a series of 75-metre laboratory lines, arranged in air-locked, prefabricated, CL2 enhanced containment modules. Separated by a full-height fire compartment wall, the remaining internal space was designed to enhance the wellbeing of hundreds of staff, featuring a café, social area and collaborative working and meeting spaces

COVID-19 Megalab

Cambridge AstraZeneca

Mace was appointed by GSK as the Project Manager for the upgrade and expansion of a primary manufacturing facility producing a range of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API’s). Historically the manufacturing plant had suffered from significant reliability issues that impacted production. Alongside reliability, the aging plant was beginning to exhibit compliance challenges further impacting outputs. The plant upgrades included yield and reliability improvements to a difficult upstream fermentation process and an increase in capacity to a downstream extraction process. Equipment upgrades included additional replacement fermentation vessels, additional centrifugation and filtration/clarification skids as well as a replacement of the obsolete automation architecture with a new DeltaV system. Furthermore, amendments were made to existing clean and black utilities supplying the plant, including vent abatement and emergency relief streams. The site required a number of the services to remain live to support wider production activities and therefore a carefully planned eight week shutdown was implemented for service tie ins and integration of new control architecture. Mace worked with GSK QA and Validation teams to support the qualification and validation stages of the project to achieve end to end compliance and produce first saleable product following the plant remediation and upgrades.

GlaxoSmithKline

GSK Worthing

Mace provided construction management services on the Big Data Institute at the University of Oxford’s Old Road Campus. The first centre of its kind in the UK, the Big Data Institute analyses, integrates and interrogates large complex datasets for research into the causes, consequences, prevention and treatment of disease. The three-storey facility houses more than 500 researchers. The site’s dedicated data centre has enough computing power to do 600 trillion computations per second. Conserving energy is a prime concern for a facility of this type, and a unique energy-saving feature of this building is the subterranean labyrinth for passive heating and cooling. Outside air is pulled through three separate air corridors totalling one kilometre in length. By the time the air reaches the major roof plant, it has warmed or cooled by up to five degrees, reducing energy costs. Other sustainable and environmental features of the building include a CHP plant, photovoltaic panels, a sedum roof and a sustainable urban drainage system, all of which contributed to the project achieving the University’s first ‘Outstanding’ BREEAM rating.

Old Road Campus, Big Data Institute

University of Oxford

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Forensics Unit is one of several projects Mace has delivered for the Met. Mace redesigned and refurbished the existing 22,000m2 building from basement level to the fifth floor, adding two new roof plant levels, enabling the Met to bring together teams from across its expert Forensic Directorate, while accommodating other departments. The refurbishment helped the Met to optimise operational capability and maximise the efficiency of the forensic and counter-terrorism teams working there. Layouts had to be flexible enough to support its occupants’ diverse requirements. Housing 23 different teams, the building had to function effectively 24 hours a day and be adaptable to policing changes. The redeveloped floors offer functional, multi-purpose spaces alongside specialist laboratory facilities. The upgraded Forensics Unit provides general office spaces, as well as specialist secure facilities. These include 15 DNA cleanroom laboratory suites, two multi-room fingerprint laboratory suites, a forensic firing range and a digital, cyber and communications floor, and secure facilities for counterterrorism and Royalty and Special Protection.

Met Police

Lambeth Road

As part of the London School Hygiene & Tropical Medicine estate refurbishment programme, Mace was appointed to transform the historic Grade II listed Keppel Street building, creating new laboratory facilities, whilst the existing infrastructure. Work included the provision of 560 sq m of bio-safety Level 2, wet labs and new electrical distribution boards and IT server racks within the existing building. The building was occupied and fully operational throughout the works.

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Macclesfield

Our work for the Oxford Molecular Pathology Institute involved a complex, on-campus redevelopment. Mace worked closely with Oxford’s researchers to design and refine a laboratory to the world-class standards required by Good Laboratory Practice. The initial enabling works included the relocation of a HV substation and the diversion of an existing district heating main. The 1960s research building had to be decontaminated and stripped of asbestos prior to demolition. Client engagement on this highly specialised build was key. By building a full-scale mock-up of a typical laboratory, Oxford's researchers were able to challenge the practicalities of the design from the start and ensure that the building met the sector’s specific requirements. The team introduced a combined heat and power unit which significantly reduced energy use and led to a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating.

Oxford Molecular Pathology Institute

NHS London

Gavin spearheads Mace’s MEP business since 2018. His career in construction spans over 30 years, leading multidisciplinary MEP teams, driving smarter and innovative construction methods while upholding Mace’s commitment to reducing carbon across his projects. Gavin’s in depth expertise in areas such as modular construction and project management, programming and monitoring has ensured successful delivery of MEP services across a range of sectors.

CASE STUDIEs

Digital

ESG

Modern Methods of Construction

Heathrow Cargo Tunnel

Qatar Airways

HYLO

St Mary Axe

Town hall buildings, official looking structures

Paddington Square

40 Leadenhall

Mace MEP was a key delivery partner on this 900,000 sq ft commercial office project. The build and delivery strategy for this £120 million project was formulated using market-leading approaches to BIM, digital and offsite manufacture, leading to an engineered product platform approach. The team developed over 1,500 elements of offsite assembly, using unique Mace product design, manufactured and delivered by various Tier 2 supply chain partners. The team provided enhanced engineering and commercial input through the design phases to manage and eliminate coordination issues, fire compliance challenges, and management of the BIM Digital Twin requirements. Mace MEP supported the client and design team in delivering enhanced integration of smart buildings and design-for-performance enhancements. Simultaneously, the team developed the stage 4 and 5 design to integrate client requirements for BREEAM, Reset and WELL Accreditation.

40 Leadenhall

The 23-storey Paddington Square development incorporates 14 floors of lettable commercial space and 41 retail units. Mace MEP services played a key part in the delivery of this £56m project, assessed as ‘Excellent’ by BREEAM. All modules of the MEP infrastructure were delivered within a 16-week timeframe. The entire MEP installation for the building was constructed off site in line with Mace’s Construction to Production methodology. BIM 360 was used to design the complex plant rooms which have been installed almost entirely in the building’s basement, while VR headset technology ensured the highest possible degree of accuracy in quality checking. An additional programme of works saw Mace MEP equip the building with a full suite of smart technologies, allowing for a touchless user experience and monitoring of elements including energy use and air quality.

Paddington Square

City of London office development 70 St Mary Axe comprises 300,000 sq ft of office space over 21 floors, arranged above a double-height, ground floor foyer. Mace MEP delivered this complex project delivered in a congested city-centre location. Major plant was required on three basement levels and the roof area. Situated within the building facade envelop, this presented a major logistical challenge. Mace MEP prefabricated all main elements of the services installation, including the fire control centre, major chillers, boiler plant, risers and heat interface units. Some structural components were also prefabricated, including the unitised facade cladding. Prefabrication reduced the programme duration while maintaining quality, and resulted in fewer deliveries, fewer people on site and less waste. Mace received the Considerate Contractor Gold Award in 2017 and 2018 for the project, which achieved a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ sustainability rating.

70 St Mary Axe

Mace MEP was initially planned to be engaged with the HYLO development to oversee the Stage 3 MEP design, however due to a hiatus period all works were stopped. Time was lost, but the project completion date needed to be maintained. Subsequently the PCSA and MEP preconstruction activities were combined to ensure the cost fixity, design and procurement were completed to meet the client’s expectations. Mace MEP quickly built an experienced engineering-led team based around the senior members already allocated to the project. This enabled the project to be engineered and managed to the client team’s expectations in line with costs, time and design outputs. Mace MEP was not engaged until the majority of Stage 3 design was completed, at which point the MEP cost plan and MEP design had diverged. Mace MEP undertook a detailed review of the Stage 3 design, offering design rationalisation and workable resolutions.

HYLO

The £22million European headquarters of Qatar Airways, situated on London’s Conduit Street, covers five floors. Each level incorporates Cat B office space, with a reception and ticketing office on the ground floor, and a board room and breakout area on the top floor. Mace MEP carried out a £4.2million programme of works on this new build project, with the basement area used to house the main plant room. Chilled beams were constructed off site to house heating and cooling infrastructure. Towards the rear of the building, on level 4, an external plant room was created to house a chiller, DX condensers and smoke extraction systems. The team also worked on installing low frequency noise systems which allow for greater privacy by dampening sound in specific areas of the building. Handed over in May 2019, the Qatar Airways building received an ‘Excellent’ BREEAM assessment.

Qatar Airways

Mace MEP refurbished the tunnel connecting the Heathrow Airport Central Terminal area and the Terminal 4 Cargo facility. The original tunnel was constructed in the 1960s and upgraded in the 1990s. Mace MEP designed, coordinated, installed and commissioned a modern day, complaint MEP infrastructure system, incorporating full life safety and communication systems, within a live tunnel environment – requiring works to be undertaken at night. Using its MDFA expertise and the latest digital tools, Mace MEP successfully modelled and set out structurally complex prefabricated modules spanning over 12 metres in a circular tunnel, within a tolerance of +/- 5mm. Approximately 870m long, and comprising a central bored section, the tunnel features two system-supporting plant rooms at its North and South ends. This £57 million aviation and infrastructure project will provide a high-quality asset to the client, Heathrow Airports Limited, in early 2025.

Heathrow Cargo Tunnel

Mace MEP are committed to Modern Methods of Construction through adopting a Construction to Production based delivery on all of our projects. Our culture is focused on leading the market through offsite innovation. We have in-house engineering and digital capabilities to transform projects from concept to delivery using a standard suite of mechanical and electrical component elements which have been benchmarked and tested on multiple large-scale projects. Our teams are dedicated to innovation and transferring developments in products and technology for offsite manufacture. We are proud to offer our clients transparency from a diverse supply chain using our unique product library and the quality and productivity that this provides.

Modern Methods of Construction

We recognise that our industry is undergoing rapid change and as a purpose led business, we focus on transforming the built environment, reducing carbon and prioritising the creation of social value. We have the most comprehensive team of ESG experts of any UK contractor. Our unique blend of design, engineering and delivery expertise means we maximise carbon reduction at all stages of a building’s lifecycle. As a business we have taken a lead role in moving the construction industry towards a sustainable future. We achieved net zero carbon as a business at the end of 2020 and achieved a 50% carbon reduction and a 50% carbon offset. In 2021, we have moved towards a further 10% carbon reduction target year-on-year to 2026. Mace remains committed to enhancing our social value and now publishes an annual ‘Value2Society’ figure – the result of independent review of more than 60 different performance measures, from the amount of renewable energy the company uses to the number of volunteering hours completed by its employees. In 2021, this figure was £563m – and there is now a target in place to reach £700m by 2026.

ESG

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Mace MEP are committed to pushing the boundaries regarding utilisation and deployment of innovative digital technologies and solutions. From QR building asset coding to automated field management we are at the forefront of digital innovation. BIM has been a key focus for the business. We have now developed capability within our project teams to internally manage and deliver combined and asset loaded models. The use of Autodesk Revit and BIM360 platforms on all projects has resulted in market-leading technologies being embedded as standard. We have now deployed digital scanning and automated setting out on multiple projects, developed our capability for dimensional control and improved quality assurance. Our teams are providing augmented reality, digitised point cloud survey and as-built information for our clients and end users as digital twins.

Digital

M&G/ Nuveen £120 million

Sellar Property Group £56 million

Nuveen £29 million

CIT Group £31 Million

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Heathrow Airport Limited £57 million

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ESG

Services include Smart Buildings, BIM, IT strategies, enterprise architecture, GIS, cloud solutions, data solutions and information architecture

Heathrow Cargo Tunnel

Specialist services include energy strategy and policy development, climate action strategy and policy development

Qatar Airways

Services include advice on the use of assts and strategic management to achieve best economic and social value over the whole lifecycle

Digital

Programming of activities affecting places and portfolios of estates, PMO services and projects and provision of outline and detailed business cases

HYLO

Services include the development of risk strategies, business continuity strategies, plans, procedures and tests

St Mary Axe

Expertise in the procurement, management and implementation of strategic and complex sourcing initiatives, supply chain and category

Modern Methods of Construction

Services include design and implementation of organisational and portfolio transformation and change programmes, business analysis & process re-engineering

Paddington Square

Services include advice on the structuring and sources of funding for development and/or investment programmes and financial modelling

40 Leadenhall

Services include the development and/or evaluation of policies, strategies and local regulations

40 Leadenhall

M&G/ Nuveen £120 million

Paddington Square

Sellar Property Group £56 million

70 St Mary Axe

Nuveen £29 million

HYLO

CIT Group

Qatar Airways

£4 million

Heathrow Cargo Tunnel

Heathrow Airport Limited

Modern Methods of Construction

ESG

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2023 Responsible Business Strategy

ESG Report

Digital

NHS London

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Unlocking the future

Tracking the trends

Dare to innovate

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