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\n Construction work is now progressing fast at the the 180,000 square foot Fabrica scheme, which started in May on the former DFS and Carpetright site in west Oxford.\n<\/p>\n
\n New computer-generated images have now been added to hoardings outside, showing how the buildings are expected to look, including from the inside.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mission Street, a specialist investor, developer and operator for the science and innovation sector, and BGO, the global real estate investment manager, has appointed construction company Bowmer & Kirkland as lead contractors.\n<\/p>\n
\n READ MORE: Botley Road labs complex brings hundreds of jobs\n<\/p>\n
\n Arranged across five floors, bosses say Fabrica has been designed with “high flexibility to accommodate the evolving requirements of science and innovation companies”.\n<\/p>\n
\n They have revealed how the new buildings will accommodate 670 staff, while 750 staff are involved in the construction process.\n<\/p>\n
\n Fabrica will also be Oxford\u2019s first ever \u201cLiving Wage Building\u201d where occupiers will be mandated to pay all staff the Oxford Living Wage, recommended by the city council.\n<\/p>\n
\n Inside the Fabrica complex in Botley Road – how it could look. Image: Mission Street (Image: Mission Street)\n<\/p>\n
\n Colin Brown, development director at Mission Street, said last month Fabrica\u00a0was the second of Mission Street\u2019s developments along Botley Road, with the first building, Inventa, now accommodating a range of businesses.\n<\/p>\n
\n He said: “These companies are working on some of the planet\u2019s biggest problems from cancer diagnosis and cure to climate change and in a wide variety of therapeutics for autoimmune diseases.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Inside the Fabrica complex in Botley Road – how it could look. Image: Mission Street (Image: Andy Ffrench)\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr Brown added: “In addition to bringing a large, socially conscious, and inspiring workforce into the area Fabrica will also provide a huge increase in landscaped and green space, a top-class building designed by one of the world\u2019s leading architects and increased connection to southern green spaces via shared pedestrian and cycleways.\n<\/p>\n
\n “An 80-cover, publicly accessible caf\u00e9 will also be opening within the building, offering unique access and insight for local people to share space with building users.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Construction work is expected to be completed in 2027.\n<\/p>\n
\n There was some opposition to the scheme from residents living off Botley Road before the plans were approved by the city council.\n<\/p>\n
\n City councillor Susanna Pressel said she she hoped some of the cutting-edge departments working in the buildings would discover “wonderful things like a cure for cancer”, and added that some residents were being disturbed by noise from the construction work, and suffering light pollution at night.\n<\/p>\n
\n How the Fabrica complex could look inside (Image: Mission Street)\n<\/p>\n
\n She added: “I suppose a lot of the people in the Fabrica building will be scientists and data experts, but there are conditions on the planning permission which specify that the managers must provide a certain number of apprenticeships and jobs for local people in the various support roles.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr Brown said the construction team at Bowmer & Kirkland has been exemplary in observing working hours and noise\/light restrictions.\n<\/p>\n
\n One resident, who lives close to the site, said last month: “Over recent months we have experienced significant disruption, including loss of mature boundary trees, intrusive night-time lighting into bedrooms, noise, loss of privacy, and the ongoing strain of living immediately adjacent to a major construction site.”\n<\/p>\n
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