Dunfermline company fits out new university research centre

The company has provided fitted furniture for the Clarice Pears Building which houses the University of Glasgow’s School of Health and Wellbeing.

Built by Multiplex and designed by AtkinsRéalis, the £50m facility on the University’s Gilmorehill Campus brings together five academic teams from different locations across Glasgow. This has created a single multi-disciplinary centre for world-class research into improving health and reducing health inequalities.

The building is named after Clarice Pears, the mother of the founders and trustees of the Pears Foundation which donated £5m towards the building’s construction.

An informal booth seating area created by Deanestor in the Clarice Pears Building. (Image: AtkinsRéalis)

Deanestor fitted out 42 rooms across five storeys, manufacturing more than 700 items of fitted furniture and joinery which included the main reception desk in the entrance atrium, purpose-designed tables and benching to level one, informal booth seating to encourage social interaction and quiet study, storage solutions, kitchenettes, and worktops.

Ramsay McDonald, Managing Director of Deanestor in Scotland, said: “This scheme, uniquely, utilises our experience of delivering fitout contracts for state-of-the-art hospital and laboratory projects and also multi-school campuses that promote a high level of collaborative learning and social integration.

“The School of Health and Wellbeing at the University of Glasgow will help to address some of the greatest challenges facing society – in the UK and around the world – from tackling health inequality and disease to improving health and wellbeing. We are really proud to hav contributed to this wonderful building that has created such an exciting global centre of research excellence.”