Go ahead for Cambridge University’s new £300M Cavendish physics lab

The University of Cambridge has approved plans to build a state-of-the-art replacement for its world famous Cavendish Laboratory.

The new facility named ‘Cavendish III’ will host several high-tech specialist labs, teaching labs, seminar rooms and two lecture theatres.

The new Cavendish building will be located at the Paddocks site at its West Cambridge Development, with completion expected in 2021.

Formal planning permission for the £300M project will now be sought.

The original Cavendish Laboratory was opened in 1874 in memory of discoverer of hydrogen Henry Cavendish and the new complex will become the third laboratory in the University’s history to bear the famous name.

The project is being funded through £75M worth of government funding, which is being matched by the University. The remaining £150M has come by way of philanthropic donations in support of the plans.

The site of the current Cavendish laboratory will be used for a new building for the Department of Engineering, which has also received approval from the university.

Professor Andy Parker, Head of the Department of Physics, told the University’s Regent House committee: “The new facility will replace buildings dating from 1974 which are now well beyond their design lifetime and are no longer able to provide a suitable environment for our teaching and research.

“In addition, the buildings incur large running costs because of their old-fashioned design, which falls well below modern environmental standards.”

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