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8/08/12
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Construction of UCSD’s new Health Sciences Biomedical Research Facility at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in La Jolla is well underway. Located on a 3.3-acre site within the UCSD School of Medicine campus, the 196k sf Heath Sciences Biomedical Research Facility is being built to achieve LEED Platinum Certification, and potentially could receive notoriety as being the highest performing laboratory facility in the entire country.
The project was designed by ZGF Architects, LLP and is being built by McCarthy Building Companies. Concrete work on the five-story building was just completed.
Boone Hellmann, campus architect for UCSD, heads the Facilities Design and Construction office charged with implementing the $105 mil project, with James Gillie, senior director of construction services for UCSD, supervising construction and Mark Rowland charged with overall project management.
The new research laboratory will have a function similar to the existing 145k sf UCSD School of Medicine Leichtag Family Foundation for Biomedical Research Building, which McCarthy completed in spring 2004. The newer facility is part of the ongoing expansion at the campus.
The research building will fit within the modern design context of the academic mall on the School of Medicine campus, with its exterior incorporating a combination of concrete, curtain wall, metal panels, and terra cotta cladding. The facility will encompass wet labs, open lab space, lab support, and administrative support space on five stories above ground, with core lab space and support mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems located in the basement.
Distinctive design features of the building include dynamic, computer-controlled exterior solar shading systems on the east, west and south facades, representing the most extensive use of this type of shading by any building in the UC system. UCSD will study how capturing natural light in this unique manner lends itself to enhancing students’ learning abilities and study motivation.
In response to San Diego County’s water shortage, the building’s design also dictates extensive reuse of water for landscape irrigation, as well as urinal and toilet flushing. Particular attention also will be given to the build-out of the mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems to ensure optimum energy efficiency.
KPFF of Portland and San Diego is the structural engineer for the new UCSD Health Sciences Biomedical Research Facility. IBE Consulting Engineers, based in Sherman Oaks, is the mechanical and plumbing engineer, and Integrated Engineering Consultants of Los Angeles is the electrical engineer. Spurlock Poirier of San Diego is the landscape architect. RFD, also of San Diego, is the laboratory-planning consultant.
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