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Vitrum by Breakthrough Tops Out
September 29, 2025
Eddie
Jump
Technical Director
Courtesy Henning Larson
Vitrum by Breakthrough, a new rentable 166,000-square-foot facility within St John’s Innovation Park in Cambridge, UK, has topped out. It is being developed by Breakthrough Properties, which creates purpose-built facilities where life-sciences firms explore groundbreaking biotechnology. The facility is set to open in Spring 2026.
We are providing structural design, sustainability consulting, façade engineering and protective design services for the project, helping to set a new standard of accountability for embodied carbon (EC) emissions
We helped the team to develop a large footprint building surrounded by trees and bio-diverse landscape while maintaining and enhancing the local environment. Next, we brought forward a high specification brief and low carbon ideas to reduce the embodied carbon emissions of the new laboratories with our structural, facade and sustainability teams working in unison.