Double recognition for TTP Campus

The Technology Partnership’s (TTP) remarkable campus at Melbourn near Cambridge (see images below) has won double recognition for design.

The life sciences TTP Campus won both the Best of the Best and the Corporate Workplace awards at the British Council for Offices’ (BCO) 2024 awards for the UK’s best workplaces at a presentation event at the JW Marriott Grosvenor House, London on October 9.

The programme celebrates designs that demonstrate best practice in office design, fit-out, operation, community engagement and sustainability.

In giving their decision, judges stated: “The Technology Partnership campus is a truly inspiring workplace. It embraces the demanding needs of science, engineering and business into a flexible, collaborative and dynamic working environment. And it fully reflects the company’s values of being non-hierarchical and collaborative.

“The workplace encourages the cross-pollination of ideas among groups of innovative individuals enabling them to solve complex problems of all scales and for many sectors. This results in the delivery of world class market-leading solutions and technologies helping to place the UK at the forefront of technological innovation.

“Greenery and sustainability are key features…Not forgetting the local community. TTP builds upon the unique relationship the organisation has with nearby Melbourn in Cambridge, giving is [sic] ongoing support for this local village and wider Cambridge, along with offering enhanced biodiversity, new public walks, the lake and wildflower meadows.”

Dr Sam Hyde, chief executive of TTP Group, said: “We are delighted to win this prestigious award. It underscores the growing recognition of close collaboration in fast-paced, creative technology industries, and how both our culture and thoughtfully designed spaces enable true teamwork and fluid interaction.

“The new campus us a place that really allows us to work together across disciplines and closely with our clients delivering outstanding results.”

The planning team at Savills Cambridge, first appointed planning consultants on the scheme in late 2017, provided advice for the whole project, from construction through to the opening of the site and its buildings in Spring this year.

Garth Hanlon, director in the planning team at Savills Cambridge, said: “This prestigious award is very well deserved and reflects the huge amount of work put in by the project team and the client alongside a supportive local planning authority to deliver such a high-quality working environment.

“It is hugely satisfying from a professional perspective to have been so closely associated with a project of this nature, having been standing in an open field some six years ago to now seeing a stunning campus designed in an innovative style where collaboration and creativity are integral parts of its design and layout.

“A huge amount of work was undertaken at the pre-application stage to persuade the local planning authority to set aside its own policies and create this stunning parkland development.”