BDI, Oxford University

The Big Data Institute (BDI) is a spectacular biomedical research facility at Oxford University’s Old Road Campus, accommodating more than 500 scientists on its three storeys, and a dedicated data centre with capacity for 600 trillion computations per second. It’s the largest facility of its kind in the world.

Extraordinary solutions

• Design and installation of a combined heat and power system (CHP) which captures energy that would be lost in separate systems
• Installation of 1 kilometre of passive cooling and geothermal heating corridors using natural resources
• Installation of rooftop PV panels to power the BDI’s energy-efficient, suspended ‘Blade 2’ lighting strips