GB10 – Exeter Science Park Grow-out Building

The project will construct a three-storey 1,275m2 (GIA) Grow-out Building (GOB) which will provide:

  • Innovative, flexible floorplates;
  • A proposed 11 units of accommodation (6 x 50m2-70m2 and 5 a100m2-1150m2)
  • A combination of office, production, lab and meeting space in response to business needs.

The Grow-Out Building will form part of a growing continuum of ESPL’s workspace provision allowing innovative Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine (STEMM) businesses to be attracted, grow and retained in Devon. It will cater for new entrants to the park as well as businesses moving from the Science Park Centre (the site’s incubator building) that are not yet big enough for the Grow On Buildings, filling an important gap in the space offer that supports churn and allows varied innovative SME needs to be satisfied, including by freeing up space to maximise the impact of the existing incubator building.

Green credentials include a net zero-carbon, BREEAM-Excellent design as well as a green travel plan exploiting public transport, the cycle network and limited parking. The building has also been designed to take account of COVID-19 implications, including wider corridors and stairways and automatic doors to reduce touch points.

 

Getting Building Funding: £5m

Completion date: March 2023

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    David Ralph

    Chief Executive

    David Ralph started as Chief Executive of Heart of South West LEP at the beginning of June 2018. Previously, he had spent 5 years as CEO of the Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire (D2N2) LEP from 2013 where he oversaw the development of the D2N2 Strategic Economic Plan and sector strategies, 3 Growth Deals with HM Government to deliver a £1billion capital investment programme, securing and implementing £200m ESIF programme, the Derby and Nottingham Enterprise Zone, the D2N2 Skills Deal and Time for Innovation programme, community fund and led the executive team to develop the HS2 East Midlands hub. He was also closely involved in the proposed North Midlands Devolution Deal and one of the key architects in establishing the Midlands Engine, chairing the officer steering group. Whilst in this role David was a NED of the Nottingham Enterprise Zone, and Marketing NG, the Outer Estates Foundation and a Governor of Nottingham College and on the advisory Board of Nottingham Business School.

    Before the East Midlands, David was CEO of the Have Gateway Partnership working closely with local stakeholders including the ports of Felixstowe, Harwich and Ipswich and BT Adadastral Park across Suffolk and Essex and prior to that was Chief Exec of the Barton Hill New Deal for Communities programme in Bristol and the Nelm Development Trust in Norwich.

    David is a keen sailor, walker and trail runner.