Laing O'Rourke has been lined up to build a cancer research facility in Oxford designed by Foster+Partners and bankrolled by Lawrence J Ellison, the world's seventh-richest person. The project is thought to be worth at least ￡300m. Proposals for a UK branch of the Los Angeles-based Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine (EITM), lodged with the city council last month, consist of a complex of buildings spread across two sites and linked by a 250m-long elevated timber walkway. Ellison, who founded EITM in 2009, has an estimated fortune of ￡74bn and is co-founder of US tech giant Oracle Corporation, the third-largest software company in the world. O'Rourke has been appointed on a pre-construction services agreement and is expected to sign the main contract in August.
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