James Watt Centre For Nanofabrication

Further & Higher Education

Project Title: James Watt Centre For Nanofabrication

Project Value: £3.5m

Hulley contact: Jim Costello

The Centre for Nanofabrication is the forming of a number of Departments in Electronic Engineering to form a Research Centre for non-electronics. The Project undertaken by the University Estates Department evolved over a number of Stages.
 
·                     Design Brief
·                     Strip Out and Demolition Contract
·                     Enabling Works
·                     Design and Build Clean Room
 
The centre was designed and built within an original part of the University with the structure being some 200 years old.  The suite consisted of approximately 650m² of fully air conditions class 10, 1000 and 10,000 clean rooms with a 530m² mezzanine floor over the cleanrooms housing all the air handling de-ionised water and electrical plant.  Chiller pump, nitrogen liquid and gas sub-station and specialist gases will all be housed externally.  The Project undertaken was a highly serviced Project with exacting standards required for gas storage and distribution and also on the air conditioning side with close tolerances on temperature and humidity and vibration control. The project also included the removal of tools, fitting new tools and mock-up of all services.


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