Diamond Light Source has secured planning consent to extend its presence at the Harwell Campus in Oxfordshire.
The company harnesses the power of electrons to produce a bright light that is used to study anything from fossils to jet engines to viruses and vaccines.
Its new Diamond-II building will create space for assembly process and storage facilities which will enable the 48 section machine at the heart of the facility to be assembled. It will also provide office and laboratory space.
Dr Richard Walker, interim project director and technical director at Diamond Light Source, said: “To continue delivering the world-changing science that Diamond leads and enables, Diamond-II is a project that will deliver a new machine, new flagship beamlines, critical upgrades to several beamlines, and an extensive series of enhancements to optics, detectors, sample environments, and computing to support the capacity of the new machine. This will enable new applications at Diamond, including time-resolved experiments for several disciplines.”
Nicky Brock, partner at Carter Jonas in Oxford, added: “We are extremely pleased to have achieved this planning consent on behalf of Diamond Light Source. This is an extremely important development, which will enable the research carried out at the Synchrotron to remain at the forefront of technology and stay competitive with comparable facilities around the world.”
Carter Jonas worked alongside architects and engineers Ridge and Partners LLP to secure planning.
