Univ. of California-Irvine, Biological Sciences Unit 3. Budget: $ 56.5 million. Size: 145, 000 ft2 . Univ. of California-Irvine, Biological Sciences Unit 3. Design: DES Architects + Engineers Inc./EHDD.Click to enlarge. Project team : UCI Design & Construction Services (project management); Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Co., Los Angeles (design/build contractor); DES Architects + Engineers Inc., Redwood City (design/build architect); EHDD, San Francisco (design architect); M.A. Engineers, San Diego (mechanical engineering); Konsortium 1, Santa Ana, Calif. (electrical engineering); KPFF Consulting Engineers, Irvine (structural engineering); Penco Engineers, Irvine (civil engineering); Lyn Capouya Landscape Architects, Cosa Mesta, Calif. (landscape architecture). Completion date: Winter 2008. Description: Facility will include lab, lab support, and office space for the School of Biological Sciences. The program also includes a 400-seat general assignment lecture hall. Contact: Rashmi Mehta, Hathaway Dinwiddie, 213-236-0500, or Craig Ivancovich, LEED AP, DES Architects + Engineers Inc., 650-364-6453. Univ. of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, School of Osteopathic Medicine, Stratford. Budget: $30 million. Univ. of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, School of Osteopathic Medicine, Stratford. Design: RMJM Hillier.Click to enlarge. Size: 100,000 ft2 Project team: RMJM Hillier, Philadelphia (architecture); Syska Hennessey Group, New York City (MEP engineering); GPI, Scranton, Pa. (structural engineering); Langan Engineering, Trenton, N.J. (civil engineering); Skanska USA, Parsippany, N.J. (contractor/CM). Completion date: 3Q2008. Description: Project aims to serve two fragile constituencies represented by the New Jersey Child Abuse Research Education Service Institute and the New Jersey Institute for Successful Aging. Through a combination of research laboratories and clinical space (about 50% each), the facility will be a model for translational research. Lobby entrances to clinical space for each constituency will be separate. Shared spaces include classrooms for teaching university practitioners and conference rooms for professional meetings. Clinical space on lower levels with grass roof terraces will serve as play areas for children and upper-level gardens for seniors. Project replaces two used-car lots, bringing green landscape to a commercial strip that has no green. Goal is to create a sustainable building that achieves LEED certification and establishes a welcoming community landmark that stands for quality care. Contact: R. Stephen McDaniel, AIA, RMJM Hillier, 215-636-9999. Oklahoma State Univ., Interdisciplinary Science Research Building, Stillwater. Budget: $70 million Oklahoma State Univ., Interdisciplinary Science Research Building, Stillwater. Design: Cannon Design/Cannon Copenhagen/Rees Associates. Click to enlarge. Size: 120,000 ft2. Project team : Cannon Design, Baltimore/St. Louis (programming, architecture, MEP engineering); Cannon Copenhagen, San Francisco (lab consultant); Rees Associates, Oklahoma City, Okla. (architect of record); Flintco, Tulsa (construction management). Completion date: 2010. Description: Three story (plus basement) building represents the first of three planned phases within a new Technology and Research zone at the OSU Stillwater campus, enhancing research, teaching, and outreach efforts. Facility will link to an existing 1960s-era science facility, and will include flexible labs and team areas, as well as office space. Research emphases will include biodiversity, biophysics, photonics, synthetic chemistry, and advanced materials. Adjoining Physical Sciences I building will also be partially renovated as part of this project. Contact: Laura Augustine, Cannon Design, 314-241-6250. Univ. of Alaska, Integrated Science Building, Anchorage. Budget: $87 million Univ. of Alaska, Integrated Science Building, Anchorage. Design: Zimmer Gunsul Frasca/ECI-Hyer/X-nth. Click to enlarge. Size: 120,000 ft2 . Project team: Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects LLP, Seattle (design architect); ECI/Hyer, Anchorage (associate architect); X-nth (Earl Walls Associates), San Diego (lab consultant); Affiliated Engineers Inc., Seattle (MEP engineering); BBFM Engineers Inc., Anchorage (structural engineering); BBFM Magnusson Klemencic Associates Inc., Seattle (structural engineering support); DOWL Engineers, Anchorage (civil engineering); Davis Langdon, Seattle (cost estimating); The Greenbusch Group Inc., Seattle (acoustics); Land Design North, Anchorage (landscape architecture); Cornerstone Construction Co., Anchorage (construction management). Completion date:3Q2009 Description: The Integrated Science Building will house the departments of astronomy, biochemistry, biomedical sciences, biological sciences, chemistry, environmental sciences, geology, and physics, fostering cross- disciplinary innovation and discovery. Facility will include research and teaching laboratories, support, classroom, conference, and administrative and faculty offices, as well as a variety of interaction. Sustainable design features include daylighting and views, and creating new campus spaces and connections to enhance collaborative research and learning. Contact:Allyn Stellmacher, AIA, LEED AP, Zimmer Gunsul Frasca, 206-521-3436. Oak Ridge (Tenn.) National Laboratory, Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences. Budget: $65 million. Size: 80,000 ft2 Project team:Knight/Jacobs Joint Venture, Oak Ridge (architecture/engineering); Caddell/ Blaine Joint Venture, Knoxville (general contractor). Completion date: 3Q2006. Description: One of five new DoE-funded Nanoscale Science Research Centers, the CNMS is a user facility focused on the themes of macromolecular complex systems; functional nanomaterials; nanophysics; catalysis and nano-building blocks; nanomaterials theory; nanofabrication research (including bio-inspired nanomaterials); and nanoscale structure and dynamics. The four-story complex (with a one-story cleanroom/mechanical wing) includes 32 labs (wet and dry), a 10,000 ft2 cleanroom (including Class 100, 1,000, and 100,000 zones), office space for up to 190 people, and common space. Facility is co-located with the new Spallation Neutron Source and the Joint Institute for Neutron Sciences on the ORNL campus. Contact: Linda Horton, director, CNMS, 865-574-5081. Univ. of Alabama-Birmingham, biocontainment lab. Budget: $22.3 million. Univ. of Alabama-Birmingham, biocontainment lab. Design: CUH2A.Click to enlarge. Size: 35,000 ft2. Project team: CUH2A, Princeton, N.J./Atlanta (architecture/ MEP engineering); LYBD, Birmingham (civil and structural engineering); Brasfield & Gorrie, Birmingham (general contractor). Completion date: 2Q2008. Description: A $15.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health/NIAID is providing major funding for this new BSL-3 lab, as part of a plan to establish 11 new regional biocontainment laboratories. The three-story facility will be a regional resource for scientists investigating tests, drugs, and vaccines for diseases such as SARS and the West Nile virus, as well as defenses against pathogens that could be used in bioterrorism, including anthrax, botulism, and pox viruses. Research will be conducted in cooperation with affiliate Southern Research Institute. Contact: Ellen Randall, CUH2A, 609-844-1212. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Exploration Sciences Building, Greenbelt, Md. Budget: $n.a. million. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Exploration Sciences Building, Greenbelt, Md. Design: EwingCole/M+W Zander.Click to enlarge. Size: 265,500 ft2. Project team: EwingCole, Philadelphia/Washington, D.C. (architecture, MEP engineering, structural engineering); M+W Zander, San Francisco (lab consultant); Greenhorne & O’Mara, Laurel, Md. (civil engineering); GeoConcepts Inc., Ashburn, Va. (geotechnical engineering); Manhattan Construction Co., Fairfax, Va. (general contractor). Completion date for both: 1Q2009. Description: Three-story building will accommodate personnel from the Astrophysics Science Div., the Solar Systems Exploration Div., and the NASA Directorate office. The facility, the first in a new master plan for the Goddard Space Flight Center, will include labs, support, and offices to facilitate research in space and earth science, including new chemistry and electronics labs. LEED Silver certification is being targeted, in accordance with current NASA construction policies. Contact: Mark Henderson Thompson, EwingCole, 215-625-4635. Univ. of Dubuque (Iowa), University Science Center. Budget: $15 million. Univ. of Dubuque (Iowa), University Science Center. Design: Hammel, Green and Abrahamson/Straka Johnson/RFD. Photo: Design Photography Inc.Click to enlarge. Size: 55,700 ft2 (32,900 ft2 renovation; 22,800 ft2 addition). Project team: Hammel, Green and Abrahamson, Minneapolis (design architect, architect of record for addition, MEP/structural engineering); Straka Johnson Architects, Dubuque (architect of record for renovation); Research Facilities Design, San Diego (lab consultant); WHKS & Co., Dubuque (civil engineering); Oslund & Associates, Minneapolis (landscape architecture); Conlon Construction Co., Dubuque (general contractor). Completion date: 2Q2007. Description: Project included the new Mary Chlapaty Hall addition and renovation of Goldthorp Hall, connected by a new atrium. Focuses include geology, zoology, biology, microbiology, general and organic chemistry, nursing, and geographical information systems. Five new labs will offer additional space for student-faculty research work. A reoriented entry plaza, on the west side, provides a new gateway to the campus. Contact: Susan Evans for HGA, 612-338-6999. Washington State Univ., Biotechnology/Life Sciences Facility, Pullman. Budget: $72.6 million. Size: 105,000 ft2 (Phase 1). Project team: LMN Architects, Seattle (architecture); Notkin Mechanical Engineers (MP engineering); Sparling Inc., Seattle (electrical engineering); Magnusson Klemenecic Associates, Seattle (structural engineering); Lydig Construction, Spokane, Wash. (general contractor). Completion date for both: 2Q2009. Description: Biotech building is the second of six planned buildings at the university’s new Research and Education Complex, with four more to follow by 2015. The building, encompassing four above-ground floors and a partially shelled basement, will include classrooms, research labs, core labs, support space, conference rooms, and offices for faculty and postdocs. It will also house administrative offices for the newly created Center for Biotechnology in support of the university’s Biotechnology Strategic Initiative, as well as offices for the School of Molecular Biosciences. Contact: Virgil Hanson, project manager, WSU, 509-335-1648. Louisiana Cancer Research Center, New Orleans. Budget: $68 million. Louisiana Cancer Reserch Center, New Orleans. Design: RMJM Hillier/Lyons & Hudson/Jacobs Consultancy.Click to enlarge. Size: 175,000 ft2. Project team: RMJM Hillier, Philadelphia (architecture); Lyons & Hudson, New Orleans (associate architects); Jacobs Consultancy, Iselin, N.J. (lab consultant); R.G. Vanderweil, Lawrenceville, N.J. (MEP engineering); Morphy Makofsky, New Orleans (structural/civil engineering); Rowan Williams Davies & Irwin, Guelph, Ontario, Canada (wind impact consultant); Brice Building Co., New Orleans (contractor). Completion date for both: 3Q2009. Description: Ten-story research center project put on hold when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005 will move ahead due to a consortium of Tulane Univ., Xavier Univ., and Louisiana State Univ. Medical Centers. The Louisiana Cancer Research Center was under design when the site was flooded. The new building will combine laboratory research space with clinical space, as well as bringing the design up to post-Katrina building codes. The Louisiana Cancer Research Center will be on an urban site between Interstate 10 and St. Joseph’s Church, not far from the French Quarter.   Contact: R. Stephen McDaniel, AIA, RMJM Hillier, 215-636-9999.