Duke Univ. Medical Center, Medical Science Research Building II (MSRBII), Durham, N.C. Design: Hillier Architecture. Click to enlarge. Duke Univ. Medical Center, Medical Science Research Building II (MSRBII), Durham, N.C. Budget: $ 64 million. Size: 160, 000 ft2 . Project team: Hillier Architecture, Princeton, N.J. (architecture); Bard, Rao + Athanas Consulting Engineers LLC, Boston (MEP engineering); Greenman-Pedersen Inc., Babylon, N.Y. (structural engineering); HadenStanziale, Durham (landscape architecture); Bovis Lend Lease, Raleigh, N.C. (general contractor). Completion date: 2Q2006. Description: One of six buildings in the northwest corner of the Duke Univ. Medical Center, this five-story research facility includes a café, office, and meeting space on the first floor, and three floors of open research labs with one floor specifically designed for the Duke Human Vaccine Institute. This sustainable building is expected to be the first laboratory building on the Medical Center campus to achieve LEED Silver certification, and is designed to use 26% less energy than a similar baseline facility. Contact: Gwen McNamara, Hillier Architecture, 609-580-4005. Oregon State Univ., Kelley Engineering Center, Corvallis. Budget: $45 million in multiple phases. Oregon State Univ., Kelley Engineering Center, Corvallis. Design: Yost Grube Hall/SmithGroup. Photo: Pete Eckert, Eckert & Eckert Photography. Click to enlarge. Size: 153,000 ft2 Project team: Yost Grube Hall Architecture, Portland, Ore. (architecture); SmithGroup Inc., Phoenix (programming and lab consultant); Glumac International, Portland (MEP engineering); KPFF Consulting Engineers, Portland (structural and civil engineering); GreenWorks, Portland (landscape architecture); Green Building Services, Portland (sustainability consultant); Netsystems Design, Portland (telecom/ technology consultant); Altermatt Associates Inc., Portland (acoustical consultant); C3 Management Group, Kirkland, Wash. (cost estimating); Skanska USA Building Inc., Beaverton, Ore. (general contractor). Completion date: Fall 2005. Description: The Kelley center is the nation’s first academic engineering building to receive LEED Gold certification by the U.S. Green Building Council. The four-story facility houses OSU’s school of electrical engineering and design, and includes labs, classrooms, and offices for more than 100 faculty and 350 graduate students. “Green” materials incorporated in the design included wheatboard ceilings, foam insulation, odor-free asphalt products, zero or low-VOC paints/adhesives/sealants, and recycled-content steel, metal studs, gypsum board, upholstery, ceiling tile, and concrete. Recycled rainwater will be used in toilets and urinals. Other sustainability features include PV and solar panels; use of renewable wind and biomass power sources; and extensive daylighting. Contact: Amy Winterowd, Yost Grube Hall, 503-221-0150. Gemini Science Inc., and La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology, collaborative research facility, La Jolla, Calif. Duke Univ., French Science Center, Durham, N.C. Design: Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners. Click to enlarge. Budget: $43 million. Size: 145,000-ft2 Project team (all of San Diego): Architects—Delawie Wilkes Rodrigues Barker (master planning, architecture, programming, interiors); TKG Consulting Engineers (MEP engineering); RBF Consulting (civil engineering); Hope Engineering (structural engineering); Wimmer Yamada and Caughey (landscape architecture); Schirmer Engineering Corp. (fire protection consultant); DPR Construction (general contractor); Project Management Advisors Inc. (project management). Completion date: 3Q2006. Description: Three-story building, the first in the 30-acre Univ. of California-San Diego Science Research Park, replaces an exist ing collaborative facility. Project included 14 research lab units as well as 77,000 ft2 of support space and offices, plus a 29,000-ft2 garage, and an atrium, seminar room, bistro, library, and conference space. Gemini, a wholly owned subsidiary of Kirin Brewery Co. of Japan, built the facility; the nonprofit LIAI is leasing space. About 230 LIAI and 40 Gemini staff will be accommodated. Research focuses include bioterrorism defense, infectious disease study (including avian flu) and treatment, and Type 1 diabetes. Additional opportunities for cooperation with UCSD scientists are expected as a result of the facility construction. Contact: Skip Carpowich, VP/COO, LIAI, 858-752-6500. Univ. of Oregon, Integrative Science Complex Phase One, Eugene. Univ. of Oregon, Integrative Science Complex Phase One, Eugene. Design: SRG Partnership/ RFD. Click to enlarge. Budget: $16 million. Size: 30,000-ft2 Project team: SRG Partnership Inc., Portland (architecture); Research Facilities Design, San Diego (lab planning); Colin Gordon & Associates, San Mateo, Calif. (vibration consultant); Vitatech, Fredericksburg, Va. (EMI/RFI consultant); Balzhiser & Hubbard, Eugene, Ore. (MEP/civil engineering); Catena, Portland, Ore. (structural engineering); Creighton Engineering, Spokane, Wash. (fire and life safety consultant); Luma, Portland, Ore. (lighting consultant); G.Z. Brown, Eugene (daylighting consultant); Cameron McCarthy Gilbert & Schiebe, Eugene (landscape architecture); Lease Crutcher Lewis, Portland (general contractor). Completion date: Fall 2007 Description: Two-phase interdisciplinary project will encompass the fields of biology, geological sciences, materials characterization, neuroimaging, cognitive neuroscience, materials science, green nanoscience, optics, genomics, and molecular biology. Phase One, the underground Lorry I. Lokey Laboratories, will be the signature research facility of the statewide Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute, involving academic institutions as well as industry collaborators. The underground building will be based on bedrock for optimal environmental control. A second planned phase will be a 100,000-ft2 building including research and teaching labs and classrooms, estimated to cost $60 million, with a target completion date of 2011. Contact: Pauline Austin, Univ. of Oregon, 541-346-3129. Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, biomedical research building, north campus, Dallas. Design: Omniplan. Click to enlarge. Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical enter, biomedical research building, north campus, Dallas. Budget: $206 million. Size: 532,000 ft2 research tower, plus an associated 282,000-ft2 research facility and 20,000-ft2 central utility plant expansion. Project team: Omniplan Inc., Dallas (architecture for shell and fit-out); Earl Walls Associates, San Diego (lab consultant); PageSoutherlandPage, Dallas (architecture for radiology/ oncology facility); Friberg Associates, Fort Worth (MEP engineering); Albert H. Halff Associates Inc., Dallas (civil engineering); Datum Engineers, Dallas (structural engineering); Austin Commercial Inc., Dallas (construction management). Completion date: 1Q2006. Description: Project is Phase IV of a six-part master plan for the medical center’s north campus. To accommodate unknown occupants the biomedical building was created in two stages, a shell for a 16-story tower and a future fit-out (both by the same team). Facility includes labs, support, a conference center, dining facilities, and underground and aboveground parking, as well as a landscaped plaza and expansion of a thermal energy plant. Contact: Cari K. Walls, Omniplan, 214-825-7080. Univ. of North Carolina, Max C. Chapman Jr. Hall, Chapel Hill. Budget: Budget: $38.53 million. Univ. of North Carolina, Max C. Chapman Jr. Hall, Chapel Hill. Design: Wilson Architects. Photo ©Wilson Architects; photograph by Anton Grassl. Click to enlarge. Size: 128,000 ft2. Project team:Wilson Architects, Boston (architecture and lab design); Affiliated Engineers, Chapel Hill, N.C. (MEP engineering); Stewart Engineering, Morrisville, N.C. (civil engineering); Lasater, Hopkins, Chang, Raleigh, N.C. (structural engineering); Acentech Inc., Cambridge, Mass. (vibration consultant); Advanced Technology Solutions, Harvard, Mass. (chemical hygiene consultant); Towers/ Golde, New Haven, Conn. (landscape architecture); Mohar Design, Somerville, Mass. (interior design); Centex Construction, Durham, N.C. (construction management). Completion date: 4Q2006. Description: Seven-story facility includes three large lecture halls, an astronomy deck, two floors dedicated to marine sciences, and two floors for physics. It also houses the new multidisciplinary Institute for Advanced Materials, which consists of faculty offices, a cleanroom, and nanoscience labs. Features include wet and dry labs and high-bay space. Chapman Hall was designed and built in conjunction with the $42 million, 150,000-ft2 Caudill Chemistry Building as Phase 1 of the planned $205-million Carolina Physical Science Complex. Other proposed structures include two new science buildings, a renovated building, and an addition to a computer science facility. Contact: Abby Smith, Wilson Architects, 617-338-5990. Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Interdisciplinary Research Complex. Budget: $144 million. Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Interdisciplinary Research Complex. Design: HOK/Zimmerman Design Group/GPR Planners. Click to enlarge. Size: 478,000 ft2 (Phase I). Project team: Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum, Chicago/St. Louis (architecture); Zimmerman Design Group, Milwaukee (architect of record); GPR Planners Collaborative, Irvine, Calif. (lab consultant); Affiliated Engineers Inc., Madison (MEP engineering); Graef, Anhalt, Schloemer and Associates, Madison (civil engineering); Harwood Engineering, Walpole, Mass. (structural engineering); PSJ Engineering, Madison (fire protection engineering); Boldt Construction, Madison (general contractor). Completion date: Summer 2008. Description: Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are anticipating a vibrant new research culture to be created with the new Interdisciplinary Research Complex. Phase 1 includes generic core research and anatomy instructional labs for the Comprehensive Cancer Center; the Molecular Medicine Center; Madelbaum Eye Research Institute; and the Gross Anatomy Instructional Lab Complex. The building also features an imaging center that will house the Imaging and Radiation Sciences Program, and a vivarium, including an animal care unit consisting of 42 animal research holding rooms, 24 laboratory process rooms, 12 vivarium support rooms, staff offices and related spaces, locker rooms, and quarantine, barrier, lounge and conference spaces. This new research complex will connect to the adjacent existing hospital and Health Sciences Learning Center, and will be surrounded by specialty institutes, as well as medical school facilities. Contact: Todd Halamka, HOK, 312-782-1000.