Research Building | Tradeline, Inc.

This programming and schematic design effort was the first new building Gilead planned for their Foster City campus.

The two-story 60,000-sf building includes biology and chemistry research labs, tissue culture, BL3 Level tissue culture, NMR, and other equipment rooms as well as offices, conference rooms, an employee breakroom, and an auditorium. Solvent storage and waste handling was planned to use a state-of-the-art piped system.

Project Information

Building Owner:

Gilead Sciences

Building Location:

Foster City, California UNITED STATES

Project Type:

New Construction

Project Delivery Method:

General Contractor

Project Timeline

Apr 2006	Construction Start
Jun 2007	Completion
Last known status: Completed

Project Cost:

$32,400,000

Construction Cost:

$27,000,000

Cost Per Sq. Ft:

$450

About These Cost Figures

Building Information

Project Includes:

Biocontainment
Biology
Chemistry
Office
Pharmacology

Total GSF:

60,000

Project Team

Architect of Record

Perkins+Will

Builder

XL Construction

Engineer - MEP

Alfa Tech Consulting Engineers

Laboratory Planner

VDK Architects

Profile Created 01/05/2007

Last Updated 10/12/2007

About the Reported Cost Figures

The cost figures reported are supplied by the firms that submitted these projects for publication, which in most cases are the designers or builders. Whereas these sources are intimately familiar with their projects, they may not be fully aware of the owners' finally-realized and recorded costs. In some cases, costs are truly and completely accounted for, and in others they represent a near approximation of the final costs. Costs have not been adjusted for year of construction, nor has any attempt been made to make regional cost adjustments.

Further, costs are not comparable on any kind of detailed standard costing model. Hence, it is possible for the cost of one building to include a steam boiler, while the cost of a comparable building might not include the boiler, if steam is being supplied from an already existing campus grid. Or, in another case, a building might include excess boiler capacity to supply steam to another building. Some submittals include fees or unusual site improvements as part of the construction costs, which others do not.

Fig. 1

Exterior

Fig. 2

Floorplan