Delivering a high-performance holographic laboratory
As their specialist partner, Equans Sci-Tech* engaged strategically with the holographic team to ‘Design. Deliver.’ their facility around specific business outcomes. Our "inside-out" methodology integrated technical architectural needs with precise engineering, ensuring a single-source turnkey delivery that minimised disruption within a live, high-security headquarters.Delivering a high-performance holographic laboratory
As their specialist partner, Equans Sci-Tech* engaged strategically with the holographic team to ‘Design. Deliver.’ their facility around specific business outcomes. Our "inside-out" methodology integrated technical architectural needs with precise engineering, ensuring a single-source turnkey delivery that minimised disruption within a live, high-security headquarters.
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Overview
Our client required an industry-leading holographic laboratory at their headquarters to reinforce their global leadership in banknote security. The project required a mission-critical environment with precise ± 0.5°C temperature stability, complete vibration isolation for laser rooms, and a strictly controlled atmosphere with no internal air movement.
Technical mastery
Equans Sci-Tech delivered a fully integrated, mission-critical research suite of laboratories through a single-source accountability model that embedded assurance into every project phase.
- Environmental stability: Installed specialised chilled water panels to achieve ±0.5°C thermal stability and zero-velocity air movement, eliminating atmospheric interference for sensitive holography.
- Precision engineering: Integrated anti-vibration flooring and acoustic dampening to protect laser integrity from external structural interference.
- Secure infrastructure: Designed and built security-rated walls, specialised windows, and advanced access control systems to meet international hologram manufacturing standards.
- Operational integration: Utilised modular construction techniques to execute a seamless installation within the active Basingstoke HQ, ensuring business continuity throughout the build.
Benefits
By choosing Equans SciTech, our client achieved total certainty of delivery for a facility that serves as a global benchmark for holographic innovation.
- Integrated certainty: Single-source delivery provided absolute confidence, reducing project risk and ensuring the facility met highly specific technical and security specifications from day one.
- Speed to value: Our compressed delivery timeframe and integrated expertise accelerated the transition from design to operational readiness, supporting faster time-to-market for new security technologies.
- Enhanced innovation: The world-class, highly controlled environment empowers scientists to innovate with confidence, directly underpinning our client’s competitive edge in the banknote market.
- Operational resilience: The facility’s design ensures long-term performance and sustainability, aligning high-spec technical needs with total cost of ownership (TCO) goals.
- Business continuity: Our expert-led execution allowed for the integration of complex labs without interrupting daily operations at the global headquarters.
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At Equans Sci-Tech, we specialise in mission-critical environments where precision is non-negotiable. Whether you are launching a greenfield development or repurposing existing building services, our fully integrated team provides a single point of contact to Define, Design, and Deliver your most complex requirements.
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