Royal Ottawa Health Care Group, Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Budget: $ 132 million (Canadian). Size: 400, 000 ft2 . Project team: Healthcare Infrastructure Co. of Canada, a public/private development consortium including Borealis Infrastructure Management Inc., Toronto; Carillon Canada and EllisDon Corp., London/Ottawa. Team members include Parkin Architects Ltd., Ottawa, with Adamson Associates Architects, Mississauga, Ontario (joint venture architecture team); Oxford Properties Group, Toronto (development); EllisDon Corp. (contractor); and Carillon Canada (facilities management). Completion date: 4Q2006. Description: Translational/clinical facility includes a public mental health hospital and its affiliated research institute, the Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research. Fully wireless complex comprises nine three-story inpatient care units including a total of 188 patient beds, plus a seven-story tower housing research labs, support, administration, and education facilities. A central “winter garden” includes a coffee shop, hair salon, used-clothing store, and other community amenities. The site is a teaching facility for the Univ. of Ottawa. Contact: Kathryn Hendrick, Royal Ottawa Mental Health Care Group, 613-722-6521. Univ. of Detroit Mercy, School of Dentisitry and Clinic, Detroit Budget: $80 million (includes $30 million in relocation costs). Univ. of Detroit Mercy, School of Dentistry and Clinic, Detroit. Design: SmithGroup. Click to enlarge. Size: 261,000 ft2 Project team: SmithGroup, Detroit (site analysis, programming, architecture, engineering, interior design); White Construction, Detroit (general contractor). Completion date: Fall 2007. Description: Adaptive reuse of shuttered Kindred Hospital-Metro Detroit will create a third campus for the UDM in Detroit, encompassing a dental clinic, research labs, offices, classrooms, and gathering space. Two-building project consists of a Clinic Building (210,000 ft2) with clinics, labs, offices, and a dining room; and a Classroom Building (50,000 ft2), with classrooms, conference rooms, and a dental simulation lab. Contact: Camille Thompson, SmithGroup, 313-442-8485. Univ. of Arizona, Meinel Optical Sciences Building, Tucson. Univ. of Arizona, Meinel Optical Sciences Building, Tucson. Design: Richärd + Bauer. Photo: Bill Timmerman.Click to enlarge. Budget: $14 million Size: 47,000 ft2 new construction plus 15,000 ft2 renovation. Project team : Richärd + Bauer Architecture LLC, Phoenix (architecture); Earl Walls Associates, San Diego (lab consultant); Ove Arup & Partners, Los Angeles (MEP engineering); KPFF Consulting Engineers, Phoenix (structural engineering); Lloyd Construction Co. Inc., Tucson (general contractor). Completion date: 4Q2006. Description: Combined renovation/addition project includes optical research labs, teaching labs, classrooms, interaction areas, and research offices. Building zoning balances daylit public, office, and support spaces with light-sensitive research functions that do not allow daylighting. A low-velocity laminar air delivery system provides for up to 100% outside air at very low velocities, accommodating sensitive optics instrumentation. Three vertical light shafts allow light to penetrate to a series of two-story interactive spaces. The cast-in-place structure is clad with a copper alloy in an undulating façade. The eighth floor includes Class 10,000 and 100 cleanrooms, gowning, and tunnel areas. Contact: James Richärd, Richärd + Bauer Architecture LLC, 602-264-1955. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Div. of Laboratory Sciences, National Center for Environmental Health (Building 110), Atlanta. Budget: $60 million. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Div. of Laboratory Sciences, National Center for Environmental Health (Building 110), Atlanta. Design: Perkins+ Will. Photo: ©Michelle Litvin. Click to enlarge. Size:147,000-ft2 Project team: Perkins+Will, Atlanta (architecture); Newcomb & Boyd, Atlanta (MEP engineering); Gilbane Building Co., Norcross, Ga. (general contractor). Completion date: 1Q2006 Description: Multidisciplinary, automated high-throughput facility provides research and analytical services related to public health, agriculture, emergency response, law enforcement, intelligence, and national security. Five floors of labs are highly flexible and easily reconfigurable to respond rapidly to changes in need. Interstitial space boosts efficiency and cleanliness. Interactive zones include an atrium overlooked by balconies, high-tech conference rooms, small meeting rooms, and break areas. Labs are daylit, with large windows providing ample visual connection to other buildings on the CDC’s Chamblee campus. LEED Gold certification is being sought, with “green” features including a sophisticated daylighting and sensor-based lighting system; a stormwater management system providing for non-potable irrigation; multiple energy recovery systems; use of recycled-content and renewable materials; regional materials sourcing; and construction waste recycling. Contact: Dan Watch, Perkins+ Will, 404-443-7694. Duke Univ. Medical Center, The Ruth and Herman Albert Eye Research Institute, Durham, N.C. Budget: $17 million. Duke Univ. Medical Center, The Ruth and Herman Albert Eye Research Institute, Durham, N.C. Design: Duda/Paine Architects/ Anshen + Allen + Rothman. Photo: ©2005 Robert Benson Photography.Click to enlarge. Size: 73,000 ft2 Project team: Duda/Paine Architects, Durham (architecture); Anshen + Allen + Rothman, Boston, (associate architects); Newcomb & Boyd, Atlanta (MEP engineering); Duane K. Stewart & Associates Inc., Durham (civil engineering); Gardner & McDaniel, Durham (structural engineering); Bovis Lend Lease Inc., Raleigh (contractor). Completion date: 1Q2006. Description: The Ruth and Herman Albert Eye Research Institute is the first phase in a three-phase development for ophthalmology services at Duke Univ. Medical Center. Phase One consists of a 73,000-ft2 addition to the Wadsworth Building, which currently houses the Duke Eye Clinic. The new building brings state-of-the-art ophthalmology research and clinical facilities to the Medical Center, enhancing the Eye Clinic’s identity as a leader in the international eye research community. Contact: Christopher P. Rousseau, Newcomb & Boyd, 404-730-8400. Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Univ., The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute, Cambridge. Budget: $90 million. Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Univ., The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute, Cambridge. Design: Elkus Manfredi. Photo: Anton Grassl/Esto. Click to enlarge. Size: 230,000 ft2. Project team: Elkus Manfredi Architects, Cambridge (architecture); Boston Properties, Boston (developer); Bard, Rao + Athanas Consulting Engineers, Watertown, Mass. (MEP/FP engineering); Allen & Major Associates Inc., Middleborough, Mass. (civil engineering); McNamara/Salvia, Boston (structural engineering); LAM Partners, Cambridge (lighting design); John Moriarty & Associates, Winchester, Mass. (construction management). Completion date: 1Q2006. Description: Build-to-suit facility in the Kendall Square development hosts the Broad Institute, a collaborative project of Harvard and MIT as well as affiliated hospitals and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. The focus is applying the power of genomics to medical research and treatment. Seven-story “glass box” emphasizes transparency and interactivity, with multiple lounge, conference, and vertical circulation zones. Features include a 300-seat auditorium, a genomic research museum, and six floors of open research labs, HPLC rooms, support spaces, and lab offices. Contact: David Manfredi, AIA, Elkus Manfredi Architects, 617-426-1300. Univ. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Dental Sciences Building. Budget: $125 million. Univ. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Dental Sciences Building. Design: Flad & Associates/Francis Cauffman Foley Hoffman. Rendering: O’NPA/Flad. Click to enlarge. Size: 218,000 ft2 Project team: Flad & Associates, Raleigh, N.C. (architecture); Francis Cauffman Foley Hoffman, Philadelphia (associate architect); Affiliated Engineers, Raleigh (ME engineering); Polytech Inc., Durham, N.C. (plumbing/fire protection engineering); Stewart Engineering Inc., Raleigh (civil engineering); Flad Structural Engineers, Raleigh (structural engineering); Carol R. Johnson & Associates, Boston (landscape architecture); Colorlume Inc., Carrboro, N.C. (lighting design); Thorburn Associates Inc., Raleigh/Durham (AV/acoustical consultant); Martin Alexiou Bryson, Raleigh (traffic consultant); Mulford Cost Management, Wilmington, N.C. (cost estimating); Rolf Jenson Associates, Raleigh (code consultant); Hillsman & Associates, Atlanta (furniture design); BEK, Charlotte, N.C. (construction management); general contractor TBA. Completion date: 3Q2011. Description: New facility supports the university’s efforts for development of the Health Sciences precinct of the campus. The facility, which is composed of two wings, includes clinical, research and educational spaces. Educational space and student amenities are on the ground and first floors. An internal, skylit “Main Street” and Dental Commons provide an opportunity to express the unique educational and research to the campus community. The landscape design creates a Dental Quadrangle and Alumni Garden, providing much needed green space in the Health Sciences precinct of campus. Contact: Chuck Mummert, AIA, Flad & Associates, 919-865-3523. Georgia Institute of Technology, Molecular Science & Engineering Building, Atlanta. Budget: $75 million. Georgia Institute of Technology, Molecular Science & Engineering Building, Atlanta. Design: CUH2A. Photo: Korab Photo.Click to enlarge. Size: 275,200 ft2 Project team: CUH2A, Atlanta (architecture/ engineering/planning services); Turner Construction Co., Atlanta (general contractor). Completion date: 3Q2006. Description: The final element of an ambitious four-building Biotechnology Campus construction program, this facility is designed for interdisciplinary research concerning materials at the atomic and molecular level. Major departments supported include chemistry, chemistry/biochemical engineering, electrical/ computer engineering, material science engineering, and polymer/textile/fiber engineering. The program includes labs for lasers, synthetic chemistry, biochemistry, nanobiotechnology, radioisotopes, computation, and an NMR core facility. A fast-track schedule created the building in 30 months from programming to completion. Contact: Jon Crane, AIA, LEED AP, CUH2A, 404-814-1212. Wake Forest Univ. Health Sciences/ Piedmont Triad Research Park, Biotechnology Research Facility 1, Winston-Salem, N.C. Budget: $69.9 million. Wake Forest Univ. Health Sciences/Piedmont Triad Research Park, Biotechnology Research Facility 1, Winston-Salem, N.C. Design: O’Brien/Atkins. Photo: Wake Forest Univ. Health Sciences. Click to enlarge. Size: 184,434 ft2 Project team: Wake Forest Univ./ Piedmont Triad Research Park, Winston-Salem (developer); O’Brien/Atkins Associates PA, Durham, N.C. (architecture); Sterling Engineering Co. Inc., Sturbridge, Mass. (MEP engineering); GKC Associates PA, Durham (structural engineering); Shelco Inc., Winston-Salem (general contractor). Completion date: 3Q2006. Description: The first academic/ shared building in Piedmont Triad Research Park, this facility was created to serve industry tenants as well as the anchor tenant, Wake Forest Univ. Health Sciences. Wake Forest’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine and the School of Medicine’s Div. of Lipid Sciences are housed in the facility, which comprises flexible wet labs and Class A office space. Features include a multiple-species vivarium with a surgical facility and housing and procedure rooms, as well as a barrier facility for immunodeficient and transgenic rodents. Contact: Thomas Ingram, Wake Forest Univ. Health Sciences/Piedmont Triad Research Park, 336-716-5360. Franklin & Marshall College, Ann & Richard Barshinger Life Sciences and Philosophy Building, Lancaster, Pa. Budget: $45 million. Franklin & Marshall College, Ann & Richard Barshinger Life Sciences and Philosophy Building, Lancaster, Pa. Design: Einhorn Yaffee Prescott. Click to enlarge. Size: 104,000 ft2 Project team: Einhorn Yaffee Prescott Architecture & Engineering, Boston (architecture/ MEP engineering/structural engineering/ interior design/planning); Derck + Edson Associates, Lititz, Pa. (civil engineering); Halvorson Design Partnership, Boston (landscape architecture); Turner Construction Co., Philadelphia (construction management). Completion date: 3Q2007. Description: Three-story Colonial Revival facility will support 30 faculty members in the departments of biology, philosophy, and psychology. The program includes faculty and student research labs, teaching labs, discussion rooms, a 125-seat lecture hall, an atrium, an indoor/outdoor “humanities common,” a greenhouse, and a multi-species vivarium to be used by the psychology department. Contact: Charles J. Kirby, AIA, LEED, Einhorn Yaffee Prescott, 917-981-6006.