ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the construction; so-called 'Island site' for the Wellcome Trust/Medical Research Council amongst the national health buildings was extensive, and challenging. Work by contractor Sindall construction started on site on 20 November 2000 to an architectural design by Feilden and Mawson, mechanical/electrical engineering design by Silcock Dawson and structural design by Hannah Reed. Only once in the decade 1996-2006 did the director of estates make a strong case that the estates department should not take on a project, and that was this cancer research building project: he noted that most of the people using the building would not be university staff, and that it should be an Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) or Addenbrooke's project, both by logic and by pragmatic management of university risk. The chapter discusses the final project, which provides accommodation for a new Cambridge institute of diabetes, endocrinology and metabolism (CIDEM), later to be known as the Institute for Metabolic Science (IMS).
