Ferring Pharmaceuticals, San Diego (before, left, and after, right). Design (renovation): Kornberg Associates. Photo and rendering: Kornberg.
Budget:
$ n.a.
Size:
36,000 ft2 (23,000-ft2 renovation plus 13,000-ft2 vertical addition).
Project
team (all of San Diego): Kornberg Associates (architecture, lab planning, programming); X-nth (MEP Engineering); Burkett & Wong (structural and civil engineering/
surveying); KTU+A (landscape architecture); Ninyo & Moore (geotechnical engineering); Jones & Stokes (archaeological resources/tribal affairs history consultant); Relcon (biological/ environmental consultant); DBC Construction Inc. (general contractor).
Completion
date: 2Q2008.
Description:
Ferring is a biopharma company that develops and markets products for the fields of infertility, obstetrics, urology, gastroenterology, endocrinology, and osteoarthritis. Reuse of 1960s vintage building, which had a prior renovation by Kornberg as lab space in 1996, calls for addition of a separate vertical structure surmounting the existing one-story building. New facility will support loads not feasible for the existing building, and will create a semi-enclosed interstitial space for HVAC equipment currently exposed on the roof, with major equipment suspended from the new structure. New second floor will contain organic, peptide, and analytical chemistry labs, plus offices, lab support, and a video conferencing room; ~8,000 ft2 will be shelled for future expansion. Project also includes new stairs, elevators, conference and break areas, and cabling (data/security/video).
Contact:
Mary Ellen Schroeder, Kornberg Associates, 650-242-8203.
Nuvera Fuel Cells, world headquarters, Billerica, Mass.
Budget:
$n.a.
Nuvera Fuel Cells, world headquarters, Billerica, Mass. Design: Margulies & Associates. Click to enlarge.
Size:
110,000 ft2
Project
team: Margulies & Associates, Boston (architecture); RDK Engineers, Andover/ Boston, Mass. (MEP engineering); Rolf Jensen & Associates, Boston (fire code consultant); Erland Construction Inc., Burlington, Mass. (general contractor).
Completion
date: 3Q2007.
Description:
Renovation of a former light manufacturing facility created 25 R&D labs, 50,000 ft2 of manufacturing space, and expanded office space for Nuvera, a global firm working in the development and advancement of multi-fuel processing and fuel cell technology. A café and central mail room link the lab/
manufacturing and office sectors of the facility. Labs are dual-loaded on a central service corridor for maximum interchangeability of projects. The move was made possible through favorable loans and funding commitments from the state of Massachusetts, as well as a TIF agreement with the town of Billerica.
Contact:
Susan Shelby for Margulies & Associates, 978-468-1528.
Texas A&M Univ., Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Building, College Station.
Budget:
$79 million
Texas A&M Univ., Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Building, College Station. Design: Perkins+Will. Click to enlarge.
Size:
228,000 ft2.
Project
team : Perkins+Will, Houston (architecture); Shah Smith & Associates, Houston (MEP engineering); Haynes Whaley Associates, Houston (structural engineering); Walter P. Moore, Houston (civil engineering); EDAW Inc., Atlanta (landscape architectecture); Affiliated Engineers Inc., Houston (commissioning agent); J.E. Dunn South Central, Houston (construction manager).
Completion
date: 1Q2009.
Description:
The largest construction project in campus history, the ILSB will provide labs and classrooms for graduate and undergraduate science in multiple disciplines, including agriculture, life sciences, veterinary medicine, chemistry, and engineering. A large microscopy and imaging center will include state-of-the-art electron microscopes. Core facilities in proteomics, genomics, and structural biology will serve the entire campus. The program also includes a vivarium, wet teaching labs, a 300-seat auditorium, and a coffee shop. LEED Gold level certification is being targeted, requiring rethinking of prior campus standards for fume hood performance/design, central plant design, process water reclamation, and the use of daylighting. The facility is a part of a $300 million+ science construction initiative at A&M, which also encompasses physics and astronomy buildings, an emerging technologies and economic development building, an expanded animal research building, and an addition to an existing veterinary medicine tower. The five-year goal is hiring nearly 450 new faculty members to improve the faculty-to-student ratio and boost teaching capabilities.
Univ. of Saskatchewan, Academic Health Sciences Centre (D Wing), Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Budget:
$79 million (US).
Univ. of Saskatchewan, Academic Health Sciences Centre (D Wing), Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Design: Friggstad Downing Henry/Flad Architects. Click to enlarge.
Size: 190,000 ft2 .
Project
team: Friggstad Downing Henry, Saskatoon (prime consultant/architect of record); Flad Architects, Madison, Wis. (laboratory design and architecture); Stantec Consulting, Saskatoon (mechanical engineering); Hemisphere Engineering, Edmonton (electrical engineering); Genivar Consultants, Saskatoon (structural engineering); UMA Engineering, Saskatoon (civil engineering); Crosby Hanna & Associates, Saskatoon (landscape architecture); Rowan Williams Davies & Irwin Inc., Guelph, Ontario (microclimate and interior building services); Daniel Lyzun & Associates, West Vancouver, British Columbia (acoustical consultant); Shaun Martin Consulting, Vancouver, British Columbia (LEED consultant); contractor TBA.
Completion
date:2011
Description:
Six-story building addition will integrate with existing A and B wings to create a complete complex. The D wing addition will emphasize biomedical research. The program includes labs, a vivarium, and offices for faculty, and will support science work by the College of Medicine as well as the College of Pharmacy and Nutrition. Core facilities will include the vivarium, tissue culture, mass spec, behavioral testing, imaging, and telemetry. Research emphases include cardiovascular, molecular design, neuroscience, cancer, drug discovery, and genomic medicine. Ninety PIs and about 170 undergraduate, graduate, and postdoc students will be accommodated in the wing, which is being planned to foster interactivity and sustainability. Ultimately, E wing, an academic wing including a new medical library, will be added to the complex.
Contact: Mark Corey, AIA, Flad Architects, 608-232-1232.
Nova Southeastern Univ., Center
for Collaborative Research, Fort Lauderdale-Davie, Fla.
Budget: $70 million.
Nova Southeastern Univ., Center for Collaborative Research, Fort Lauderdale-Davie, Fla. Design: ACAI Associates. Click to enlarge.
Size:
315,000 ft2
Project team: ACAI Associates, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (architecture); Research Coast Consulting Inc., Jupiter, Fla. (lab consulting); Plans for Healthcare Inc., North Salem, N.Y. (lab consulting); B&A Consulting Engineers, Decatur, Ga. (MEP engineering); Jenkins & Charland/TRC Worldwide Engineering Inc., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (structural engineering); DeRose Design Consultants, Pompano Beach, Fla. (civil engineering); contractor TBA.
Completion
date: 2009.
Description:
Building will house the Rumbaugh-Goodwin Institute for Cancer Research; offices for the U.S. Geological Survey; and NSU’s Office of Information Technology. Cross-disciplinary lab space will also accommodate programs tied to dental medicine, pharmacy, optometry, oceanography, and other life science disciplines. The program includes a 27,000-ft2 vivarium for the Rumbaugh-Goodwin Institute. A cutting-edge data center will support universitywide functions, including Florida LamdaRail, a high-capacity research network currently under development.
