Bruntwood SciTech appointed as development partner for £210m Birmingham Health Innovation Campus
Published on 09/10/2020
Today, Bruntwood SciTech has announced exciting new plans to expand its presence in Birmingham through a new partnership with University of Birmingham. Bruntwood SciTech will develop the site formerly known as Birmingham Life Sciences Park to create a world leading healthcare technologies facility, known as Birmingham Health Innovation Campus (BHIC). BHIC will be the only science park in the region dedicated to health and life sciences, sitting at the heart of a critical cluster of health excellence, led by Birmingham Health Partners (BHP), a strategic alliance between the University of Birmingham, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and the Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.
The 10-acre site is one of six National Life Science Opportunity Zones and is expected to create over 10,000 new jobs and generate an additional £400m GVA for the regional economy by 2030.
The first phase of the development includes a new 133,000 sq ft purpose built six-storey building which will be home to the University’s Precision Health Technologies Accelerator (PHTA) - providing incubation space, wet and dry labs, clean rooms, prototyping and maker space - and includes the Birmingham Precision Medicine Centre and Healthcare Technologies Innovation Hub.
It will also be a hub for larger SMEs and scaling commercial businesses working in medtech, biopharma, precision medicine, healthcare AI and genomics, attracted by the unique opportunities to access a fully connected clinical trials translation ecosystem; work collaboratively with academic and clinical leaders to commercialise ideas; and scale innovations for rapid adoption into the healthcare system.
Work on the £210m, ten year masterplan is set to begin later this year with completion on phase 1 in Spring 2023.
Further information can be found here: https://bruntwood.co.uk/news/bruntwood-scitech-appointed-development-partner-for-birmingham-health-innovation-campus/
