Campus Vision
We are intelligently upgrading purpose-built & existing former GSK laboratory spaces into a vibrant, adaptable and sustainable campus at the most affordable price in the Golden Triangle.
With phased developments planned from 2024 to 2026, our campus provides the perfect foundation for your company’s growth and future success. Secure your place in a cutting-edge facility designed to support your research and development needs.
Masterplan
Riverlabs is a 28 acre life science campus adjacent to GSK’s Ware facilities. Our exciting vision for the campus will be delivered in multiple phases – Phase 1, totaling 90,255 sq ft, will be operational from Q2 2025. The campus will combine highly specified laboratory space with unparalleled amenity. Situated on the banks of the River Lea, with direct river access, and benefiting from onsite sports facilities such as tennis courts, playing fields and a 5-a-side football pitch, Riverlabs provides the perfect environment for life sciences businesses to thrive, both inside and outside of the lab.
Estimated Total Occupation Cost
Golden Triangle location...
a fraction of the cost
Because we are retrofitting existing, purpose-built lab space and not starting from scratch we can pass on huge rent savings compared to other laboratory space in the Golden Triangle. We estimate that there is a 50% to 75% saving on total occupation costs compared to lab space in London, Cambridge and Oxford.
More what you need…
less what you don’t
Our adaptable masterplan offers CL2/3 lab & write up space that can accommodate small scale-ups to huge global corporations, and anything in between. Riverlabs’ flexibility caters for most R&D activity including biology, chemistry, invivo, analytical, write-up and office space. We understand the needs of those in R&D and we are making sure the Riverlabs specification delivers exactly what you and your staff need.
Sustainable retrofit…
that won’t cost the earth
The vision for Riverlabs is to create an exemplar sustainable development that aligns with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the RIBA 2030 Net Zero Climate and Bio-Diversity Challenge. Full electrification of the campus will allow Riverlabs to become an operationally net zero carbon campus. By re-purposing our existing buildings, rather than knocking down and starting from scratch, we estimate embodied carbon savings of c.75% versus the equivalent new build!
Changing from gas fossil fuel to renewable electric powered air/water source heat pumps
Targeting reduction in energy consumption by >60%
Targeting EPC 'A' rating
Promoting sustainable travel to and from site
Located 30 minutes from London...
enjoy rush hour.
Riverlabs sits on the Cambridge to Kings Cross life sciences Innovation Corridor within a 45minute radius of London, Cambridge and Stevenage. It is ideally-placed for fast growing companies wanting easy access to customers and staff anywhere in the ‘Golden Triangle’. What’s more, the London commute is as easy as any commute within London itself. Trains connect Ware to Tottenham Hale Tube station 4x per hour and take 30minutes with the benefit of a beautiful 4 min riverside bike ride or 12 min walk to campus along the beautiful River Lea tow path.
Efficiently delivering
the future
Riverlabs is adding much needed laboratory space to the market, at a time of significant undersupply and high rental and build costs across the Golden Triangle. The first phase will see 90,255 sq ft of high-spec CL2/3 laboratory and write-up space available for occupation in early 2025. To ensure delivery is on time, a market-leading professional team specialising in Life Science development has been appointed to turn the vision for Riverlabs into a reality.
A science campus designed for life
Riverlabs is a truly unique campus with a natural waterfront to the River Lea. 15 acres of open green space plus sports club, tennis courts, cricket pitch, five-a-side football, access to water-based activities, river walks and nature on the doorstep. In addition, Riverlabs has the benefit of being an ‘in town’ campus within easy walking distance of an amazing range of local amenities: good schools, lots of independent restaurants, cafes and shops, hotels, green spaces, leisure, sports, gyms and even a recently-renovated lido.
Discover your space...
Phase 1 availability
Phase 1 of Riverlabs’s redevelopment will provide 90,255 sq ft of CL2/3 lab space over 3 floors. The existing building will consist of refurbished lab and write-up units of practically any shape and size up to 90,255 sq ft with high spec services such as; Air handling units providing flexible extraction up to 28 air changes per hour, ducted fume cupboard provision, and bottled laboratory gases hard piped throughout the buildings.
For all leasing and general enquiries
Contact Jonathan Hawkes
07808 102 393
jonathanhawkes@riverlabsware.com
