Northwestern University Plans Technological Institute Expansion

EVANSTON, ILL. -
Northwestern University has selected Flad Architects to design two new additions to the 750,000-sf Technological Institute in Evanston, Ill. A 54,000-gsf, five-story life sciences engineering addition will house the Integrated Molecular Structure Education and Research Center, electrical engineering teaching labs, core labs, and researcher offices. A 20,000-gsf, three-story addition will include an interdisciplinary cleanroom, an atrium, offices, dry labs, and flexible laboratory space. Supporting multidisciplinary research, the expansion will accommodate areas of study including biologically-inspired devices, computational biology, bioinformatics, neural engineering, patient safety, rehabilitation engineering, tissue engineering, biologically based materials, biomimetics, and sustainability.