The Francis Crick Institute

Building air quality and pedestrian comfort for a major biomedical facility

Located in central London, the Francis Crick Institute is one of Europe’s largest biomedical and translational research centers. We helped the Institute be friendly not just visually but also in the way it affected the wind environment for pedestrians. London is a challenging environment for building designers because of its density. Planning exercises must carefully consider the safety and comfort of people on the street. The designers also came to us for wind tunnel studies that would help them optimize the design of the facility’s exhaust stacks, promoting the dispersion of exhaust and reducing any risk of exhaust re-entering the building’s air intakes.