North Carolina Central Univ., Biomanufacturing Research Institute & Technology Enterprise Center of Excellence (BRITE), Durham. Budget: $ 17.8 million. Size: 56, 300 ft2 . North Carolina Central Univ., Biomanufacturing Research Institute & Technology Enterprise Center of Excellence (BRITE), Durham. Design: O’Brien/Atkins Associates/The Freelon Group. Click to enlarge. Project team : O’Brien/Atkins Associates, Research Triangle Park, N.C. (architect of record); The Freelon Group, Research Triangle Park (design architect/programming/lab consultant); CRB, Cary, N.C. (MEP engineering); GKC Associates, Durham (structural engineering); O’Brien Atkins Site Group, Research Triangle Park (landscape architecture); Turner Construction, Raleigh, N.C. (general contractor). Completion date: 3Q2007. Description: Research institute is part of a statewide initiative emphasizing biotech, biopharmaceuticals, and biomanufacturing employment, and will support development of NCCU programs at undergraduate and graduate levels. Situated adjacent to NCCU’s new Mary M. Townes Science Building, the BRITE facility will include research labs, support areas, administrative offices, classrooms, and an auditorium. Building upon the core competencies of NCCU’s current science curriculum, the biotechnology laboratory experiences will augment these competencies in the areas of microbiology, QC/QA, analytical chemistry, cell culture, microbial physiology, purification, virology, and bench-scale process development and recovery. Construction was funded by donations from the biotech industry and the Golden LEAF Foundation. Project won an Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects, North Carolina chapter, in 2006 (unbuilt projects category). Contact: Timothy F. Winstead, AIA, LEED AP, Freelon Group, 919-941-9790. Marshall Univ., engineering building, Huntington, W.V. Budget: $13.5 million. Marshall Univ., engineering building, Huntington, W.V. Design: GRW/RSP Architects. Click to enlarge. Size: 16,000 ft2 Project team: GRW, Lexington, Ky. (lead A/E firm: architecture, MEP/civil/ structural engineering); RSP Architects, Minneapolis (design consultant); Hager Construction, Huntington, W.V. (general contractor). Completion date: 3Q2008. Description: Building for the College of Information Technology and Engineering is intended to revive Marshall Univ.’s long-dormant four-year engineering degree program. In addition to a classroom and three offices, the program includes multiple labs (environmental, structures, materials, soils), materials storage, and a visualization center. The building joins the recent Byrd Biotechnology Science Center in a science precinct that is also projected to include a future $50 million classroom, office, and laboratory facility. Contact: Shane Lyle, AIA, GRW, 859-223-3999. Cornell Univ., physical sciences building, Ithaca, N.Y. Budget: $140 million Cornell Univ., physical sciences building, Ithaca, N.Y. Design: Koetter, Kim & Associates/Burt Hill. Click to enlarge. Size: 197,000 ft2. Project team : Koetter, Kim & Associates, Boston (design and managing architect); Burt Hill Inc., Butler, Pa. (architect of record, lab consultant, MEP/FP/telecom engineering); GIE Niagara Engineering Inc., St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada (civil/utility engineering); Thornton Tomasetti Group, New York City (structural engineering); Empire Geo Services Inc., Hamburg, N.Y. (geotechnical engineering); Andropogon Associates, Philadelphia (landscape architecture); McCarthy Building Cos., St. Louis (construction management). Completion date: 2010. Description: Major facility, part of the university’s Life Sciences Initiative, will support the departments of chemistry and chemical biology, physics, and applied and engineering physics. Some components of the Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics and the Laboratory of Atomic Solid-State Physics will also be housed. The first floor will be dedicated to undergraduate teaching functions; upper floors will house offices and research labs. The basement will contain low-vibration labs. Amenities include a 146-seat auditorium, communal spaces, food services, and covered walkways connecting the building to Baker Lab and Clark Hall. Other Life Sciences Initiative projects include Duffield Hall, a nanotech building completed in 2004, and the Life Sciences Technology Building, a $140 million project currently under construction. Contact: Mark deShong, Koetter Kim & Associates, 617-536-8560. Univ. of Notre Dame, Stinson-Remick Hall (College of Engineering facility), Notre Dame, Ind. Budget: $69.4 million Univ. of Notre Dame, Stinson-Remick Hall (College of Engineering facility), Notre Dame, Ind. Design: BSA LifeStructures. Rendering ©Anderson Illustration Associates, courtesy of BSA LifeStructures. Click to enlarge. Size: 163,200 ft2 . Project team: BSA LifeStructures, Indianapolis (architecture, MEP/civil/ structural engineering, landscape design); Research Facilities Design, San Diego (lab consultant); Maregatti Interiors, Indianapolis (interior design); Green Building Services, Portland, Ore. (sustainability consultant); Colin Gordon & Associates, San Bruno, Calif. (acoustic and vibration consultant); VitaTech Engineering, Fredericksburg, Va. (EMI consultant); Pepper Construction, Chicago (construction management). Completion date:1Q2010 Description: Multidisciplinary engineering teaching and research building will house a nanotechnology research center with a semiconductor processing and device fabrication cleanroom; an energy research center; and an undergraduate interdisciplinary learning center. Other features include a 24-hr discussion lounge, a small cafeteria, and a chapel. The facility has been fully funded by three major donors (the Stinson, Remick, and McCourtney families) and 45 additional private contributors. Contact: Geoffrey A. Lisle, AIA, BSA LifeStructures, 317-819-7818. Grand Valley State Univ., John C. Kennedy Hall of Engineering, Grand Rapids, Mich. Budget: $16 million. Size: 53,000 ft2 Project team:Progressive AE, Grand Rapids (architecture, MEP/civil engineering); Robert Darvas Associates, Ann Arbor, Mich. (structural engineering); Clean Rooms International, Grand Rapids (design/build for cleanroom); Pioneer Construction, Grand Rapids (construction management) Completion date: 2Q2007. Description: Three-story facility includes labs, including an electrical and computer engineering lab; a semiconductor cleanroom; and an electromagnetic and wireless communications lab. Other features include three computer-aided teaching studios, two 48-seat classrooms, a large “case room,” and offices for the Padnos College of Engineering and Computing Dean’s Office and faculty. Links to the adjacent Eberhard Center and Keller Engineering Lab Building (opened in 2000) have been provided. The occupancy of the Kennedy building will allow strategic renovation to the Eberhard building for use by the College of Education. LEED certification is being sought. Contact: Bob Brown, facilities and planning, Grand Valley State Univ., 616-331-3853. Univ. of Texas-Arlington, engineering research building. Budget: $82 million. Size: 235,000 ft2. Project team: Page Southerland Page LLP, Houston (architect of record/MEP engineering); Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects LLP (design architect); Research Facilities Design, San Diego (lab consultant); Charles Gojer & Associates Inc., Dallas (civil engineering); Datum Gojer Engineers Inc., Dallas (structural engineering); Camille LaFoy, ASLA, Landscape Architecture, Richardson, Texas (landscape architecture); DataCom Design Group LLC, Austin, Texas (technology design); Schirmer Engineering Corp., Framingham, Mass. (life safety consultant). Completion date: 2011. Description: Project will create new multidisciplinary labs for research, teaching, computer science, and design. The new facility will support interdisciplinary work in a number of fields, including bioengineering, material sciences, and computer sciences. About 120,000 ft2 will be completed in the initial project, as well as 100,000 ft2 of shell space. Project follows the spring 2006 opening of a new science and physics building which includes labs and a large planetarium. Contact: Dee Maxey, AIA, Page Southerland Page, 214-522-3900. Univ. of West Florida-Pensacola, Science & Technology Building. Budget: $23 million. Univ. of West Florida-Pensacola, Science & Technology Building. Design: Lord, Aeck & Sargent/Caldwell Associates. Click to enlarge. Size: 93,351 ft2. Project team: Lord, Aeck & Sargent, Atlanta (architect of record); Caldwell Associates, Pensacola, Fla. (associate architect); MEP Engineering Solutions, Pensacola (MEP engineering); Schmidt Dell Associates, Pensacola (electrical engineering); Kenneth Horne & Associates, Pensacola (civil engineering); Joe DeReuil Associates, Pensacola (structural engineering); Alan D. Holt, ASLA, Panama City, Fla. (landscape architect); Waveguide Consulting, Atlanta (audio-visual); Working Buildings, Atlanta (commissioning agent); general contractor TBA. Completion date for both: 3Q2009. Description: The Science & Technology Building will create a “state-of-the-science” space for interdisciplinary teams of scientists, engineers, and mathematicians. The building is being designed to pursue LEED Silver certification. The project will consolidate activities from the departments of electrical and computer engineering, computer sciences, mathematics and statistics, and physics. The four-story complex will accommodate learning spaces that have undergraduate research embedded into the more formal research programs, as well as the discovery- and active learning-based pedagogy that will be found in the coursework at all levels. Labs and classrooms will be flexible. An immersion-style visualization lab will also be provided. Contact: Anne Taylor, Lord, Aeck & Sargent, 404-253-6710. Florida State Univ.-Tallahassee, King Life Sciences Teaching & Research Center. Budget: $55.8 million. Florida State Univ.-Tallahassee, King Life Sciences Teaching & Research Center. Design: Elliott Marshall Innes PA/Lord, Aeck & Sargent. Click to enlarge. Size: 180,126 ft2 Project team: Elliott Marshall Innes PA, Tallahassee (architect of record); Lord, Aeck & Sergeant, Atlanta (lab consultant); Tilden, Loebnitz, Cooper, Tallahassee (MEP/electrical/structural engineering); Moore Bass Consulting, Tallahassee (civil engineering, landscape architecture); Newcomb & Boyd, Atlanta (commissioning agent); LLT Building Corp., Tallahassee (construction management). Completion date: 3Q2008. Description: This new center for the department of biological science, targeting LEED certification, will provide research labs, teaching labs, classrooms, offices, and support space in two wings joined by a central lobby. The five-story center includes a core analytical research facility, specialty environmental chambers for plant research, a bio-genetics research center, a 150-seat auditorium, and research labs that support NIH-funded studies. The fifth story includes a mechanical penthouse and a complex of four greenhouses for plant genetic research. Contact: Anne Taylor, Lord, Aeck & Sargent, 404-253-6710. Hudson-Alpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Ala. Budget: $59 million. Hudson-Alpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Ala. Design: Cooper Carry. Click to enlarge. Size: 260,000 ft2 . Project team: Cooper Carry Inc., Atlanta (architecture, labs, landscape architecture); NBP Engineers, Macon, Ga. (MEP engineering); Uzun & Case Engineers, Atlanta (structural engineering); SST Planners, Arlington, Va. (laboratory programming); Turner Universal, Huntsville/Nashville (construction managment). Completion date for both: 4Q2007. Description: Four-story, dual-wing facility in 20-acre Cummings Research Park Biotech campus will include biotech R&D labs to support research in the areas of genetics and personalized medicine. Space will also be allocated for high school and college level outreach and training programs. The HAIB is a nonprofit research institute that will occupy one wing of the building, with eight science teams; the south wing is designed for startup tenants that can later expand to other sites in the park. Twelve additional tenants have already committed to space in the building, including Conversant Healthcare, Open Biosystems, Applied Genomics Inc., CFD Research Corp./ Biotechnology Div., ExtremoZyme Inc., Expression Genetics Inc., Serina Therapeutics, Microarrays Inc., SourceCF Inc., Antarus Biotech, Theragnostix Reference Laboratories, and New Century Pharmaceuticals. The building is the first component of a planned HAIB science campus, intended to improve human health, stimulate economic development, and inspire youth to seek science careers. Funding for the project includes $50 million from the state of Alabama. Contact: Mark Jensen, AIA, Cooper Carry Science + Technology, 404-237-2000. Univ. of Kansas, Structural Biology Center Phase III, Lawrence Budget: $13.9 million. Univ. of Kansas, Structural Biology Center Phase III, Lawrence. Design: Gould Evans/Cannon Design.Click to enlarge. Size: 37,000 ft2. Project team: Gould Evans Architects, Lawrence (architect of record); Cannon Design, St. Louis (lab consultant, MEP/FP engineering); Turner Construction, Kansas City, Mo. (general contractor). Completion date for both: 2008. Description: Third phase will nearly triple the size of the existing Structural Biology Center, a 17,000-ft2 facility completed in 2004. Addition will house a core facility serving campus users in multiple additional research facilities on KU’s west campus; the university’s new 800-MHz NMR and other high-performance instruments will be housed. The building combines facilities for life sciences, biosciences, and drug discovery research, including labs, offices, and classrooms. The expansion provides more space and resources for high-throughput screening labs and the university’s chemical methodologies and library development program. The new construction will free up space in the existing Life Sciences Research laboratory for expansion of the Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis. Contact: Warren Corman, Univ. of Kansas, 785-864-3131.