State of Georgia, Georgia Public Health Laboratory, Waycross. Budget: $ 11.1 million. Size: 23,840 ft2 . State of Georgia, Georgia Public Health Laboratory, Waycross. Design: Lord, Aeck & Sargent, Atlanta. Photo: © 2007 Jonathan Hillyer/Atlanta. Click to enlarge. Project team : Lord, Aeck & Sargent, Atlanta (architecture); Newcomb & Boyd, Atlanta (MEP/FP engineering); KSi/Structural Engineers, Atlanta (structural engineering); Carter & Sloope Inc., Macon, Ga. (civil engineering, landscape architecture); WorkingBuildings LLC, Atlanta (commissioning agent); Gilbane Building Co., Atlanta (construction manager). Completion date: 4Q2007. Description: Sister facility to the Lab of the Year award-winning Georgia Public Health Laboratory in Decatur, Ga., Waycross building provides needed testing capacity as well as redundancy for emergency situations. Single-story building houses two BSL-3 lab suites for testing of chemical and biological threat specimens, as well as general lab space, a mail screening area, an “unknowns” room for examining potentially hazardous deliveries, a training classroom, a training lab, offices, and conference room space. Contact: Ann Kohut for Lord, Aeck & Sargent, 770-913-9747. Indiana Univ., Simon Hall Multidisciplinary Scientific Budget: $45.4 million. Indiana Univ., Simon Hall Multidisciplinary Scientific Research Center, Madison, Wis. Design: Flad Architects. Photo: Chris Barrett ©HedrichBlessing. Click to enlarge. Size: 140,000 ft2 Project team: Flad Architects, Madison, Wis. (architecture, lab planning, landscape architecture, structural engineering); The Odle McGuire & Shook Corp., Indianapolis (associate architect, telecom engineering); Affiliated Engineers Inc., Madison (MEP engineering); Bledsoe Tapp & Riggert, Bloomington (civil engineering); F.A. Wilhelm Construction Co. Inc., Indianapolis (general contractor). Completion date: 4Q2007. Description: Indiana Univ.’s first science building specifically designed to support multidisciplinary investigation, Simon Hall will facilitate collaboration among biologists, chemists, physicists, geneticists, and other types of scientists. Features include a proteomics center, and biochemistry, biophysics, bioorganic chemistry, and biomaterial instrumentation facilities, supporting research in fields including proteomics, genomics, and bioinformatics. A second multidisciplinary building nearby, now under construction, will bring together neuroscientists, biogeochemists, environmental scientists, and other researchers. Contact: Sally Rasmussen, Flad Architects, 608-232-4384. St. Lawrence Univ., Johnson Hall of Science, Canton, N.Y. Budget: $30.3 million St. Lawrence Univ., Johnson Hall of Science, Canton, N.Y. Design: KlingStubbins with Croxton Collaborative Architects. Photo: © Woodruff/Brown Photography. Click to enlarge. Size: 120,000 ft2. Project team : KlingStubbins, Boston, in association with Croxton Collaborative Architects PC, New York City (architecture); Research Facilities Design, San Diego (lab consultant); Cosentini Associates MA, LLP, Cambridge, Mass. (MEP engineering); LeMessurier Consultants Inc., Cambridge (structural engineering); Burley-Guminiak & Associates, Canton, N.Y. (civil engineering); Andropogon Associates Inc., Philadelphia (landscape architecture); Atlantic Testing Laboratories, Canton (geotechnical consultant); Northland Associates, Liverpool, N.Y. (contractor). Completion date: 3Q2007. Description: New building for the university’s biology, chemistry, and psychology departments helps expand and consolidate science activities on the campus, and supports new majors in biochemistry and neuroscience. Facilities include teaching and research labs, conference rooms, departmental and faculty offices, and informal student spaces. Among the special features are an ethnobotany teaching lab; a microscopy imaging center; a greenhouse; a vivarium; a bioinformatics classroom; centers of chemical/molecular biology and animal behavior study; and an organic chemistry suite. Sustainability strategies include daylight harvesting, a high-insulation roof, intelligent HVAC occupancy sensors, heat recovery on ventilation exhaust, and high-insulation glazing. Contact: Liz Zipf, KlingStubbins, 215-569-5277. Columbia Univ., Gary C. Comer Geochemistry Building, Palisades, N.Y. Budget: n.a. million Columbia Univ., Gary C. Comer Geochemistry Building, Palisades, N.Y. Design: Payette. Click to enlarge. Size: 70,000 ft2 . Project team: Payette, Boston (architecture, interiors, landscape architecture. programming); Vanderweil Engineers, Boston (MEP engineering); Weidlinger Associates Inc., New York City (structural engineering); Stantec (formerly Vollmer Associates), New York City (civil engineering); Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers, New York City (geotechnical engineering); Torcon Inc., Red Bank, N.J. (contractor). Completion date:4Q2007 Description: Facility on Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Campus supports research in multiple areas, including global climate change. The building includes specialized mass spec, geochemistry, and instrument-based laboratories, with office and lab zones linked through a central atrium. Features include meeting rooms, lounge areas, a videoconference center, and a 100-person seminar room; offices overlook a wooded hillside while labs have views of the campus interior. Siting was selected to minimize visual impact on the adjacent Hudson River. Contact: Susan Shelby for Payette, 978-468-1528. South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, Chemical and Biological Engineering/Chemistry Building, Rapid City. Budget: $18 million. South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, Chemical and Biological Engineering/Chemistry Building, Rapid City. Design: TSP Architects & Engineers in association with SmithGroup Inc. Click to enlarge. Size: 49,000 ft2 Project team:TSP Architects & Engineers, Minnetonka, Minn. (architect of record, engineering) in association with SmithGroup Inc., Minneapolis (design architect); Research Facilities Design, San Diego (lab consultant); contractor TBA. Completion date: 2Q2010. Description: The Chemical and Biological Engineering/Chemistry Building (CBE/C) will be a signature building on campus, replacing existing spaces housed in a 40,000 ft2 building. Spaces have been planned around an academic paradigm shift—highlighting the biosciences, while retaining the strength of the core curriculum. Offices are grouped on one level for enhanced interdepartmental interaction. Classrooms and teaching labs are located on the first floor, with more advanced teaching labs and research labs positioned on the second floor and offices and meeting rooms at the top level. Both chemistry and chemical engineering labs are positioned for visibility, with the high-bay teaching lab showcasing the learning underway and the strength of the programs. Contact: Dean Walleen, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, 605-394-2251.