Public Health Sciences Building

The PHS building was designed with three primary objectives in mind: to provide a "front door" to the campus; to encourage collaboration and group interaction among researchers; and to accommodate future growth. Studies conducted across the nation and around the globe by the Center's public health scientists help identify risks, develop detection tools, and devise prevention strategies for cancer and other serious diseases.

PHS is the Center's sixth and largest facility on the 14-acre Robert W. Day Campus in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood. The most programmatically diverse of the Center's buildings, PHS combines basic science laboratories, clinics for large population studies, and offices for the population scientists, biostatisticians, epidemiologists, and cancer prevention staff. The 372,503-gsf building houses 35,000 sf of lab space, and has 452 parking stalls for more than 800 affiliated faculty and staff. An exercise testing facility and a human nutrition kitchen serves members of the public who participate in PHS cancer-prevention and early detection studies.

The first floor houses the main entrance, a conference center, dining hall, cafeteria, offices, and the atrium entrance. Below grade, Level D contains offices, interaction spaces, and parking. Level E houses the clinic exercise facility, the human nutrition kitchen, and parking. Floors two through four contain faculty offices. Offices for senior investigators are 165 sf; staff scientists have 140 sf; and basic scientists and clinical researchers have 120 sf to 140 sf. The clinic floor contains 17 exam rooms, each containing a workstation and exam table.

Laboratories for PHS are located on the fifth floor. "Open-concept" labs create the opportunity for increased communication and collaboration and provide flexibility to adapt to researchers' changing space needs. Above the labs is a full height interstitial space. The new building is designed to accommodate future growth and recruitment of scientists for additional programs.

A skylit atrium extends from below grade to the 4th floor, drawing natural light into the building and providing a comfortable space where people can gather. In the center of the atrium, a helix-shaped staircase connects every floor, enabling vertical and horizontal movement and fostering interaction between researchers. The building's multilevel glass "prow" that protrudes from the west side of the building creates additional spaces for meeting and break rooms. A rooftop terrace with room for up to 300 people provides panoramic views of Lake Union and the city skyline.

To help forge closer links between PHS staff and their colleagues in the Clinical Research, Basic Sciences, and Human Biology divisions, the PHS building is centrally located on the campus and incorporates a number of casual gathering places, including the Consuming Choices Café and Ounce of Prevention, a coffee bar.

Consistent with the Center's long time commitment to the environment, the PHS building is in line to become the first facility on campus to earn a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED™) rating from the U.S. Green Building Council. Several "green" features are incorporated, including a drainage system designed to prevent groundwater from infiltrating the foundation that rests below the water table by collecting the water and using it to irrigate the grounds.

Project Information

Building Owner:

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Owner Contact:

Scott Rusch, Vice President of Facilities and Operations

Building Location:

Seattle, Wash. UNITED STATES

Project Type:

New Construction

Principal Building Function:

Research

Project Timeline

May 2000	Planning Start
Sep 2000	Design Start
Dec 2001	Construction Start
Dec 2003	Completion
Last known status: Completed

Project Cost:

$119,000,000

Construction Cost:

$90,800,000

Cost Per Sq. Ft:

$199

About These Cost Figures

Building Information

Project Includes:

Biomedical
Healthcare: Cancer Center
Interdisciplinary Research
Laboratory
Laboratory: Research
Office: Researcher
Parking Structure

Total GSF:

372,503

Total NSF:

228,247

Efficiency:

56%

Building Population:

1000

People Density:

372.5 gsf/person

Building Services:

DI, compressed air, vacuum, and gas; bottled services include H, He, C2H2, Ar, N2O

Office Size:

115 sf to 165 NSF

Power Req:

Lighting: 1.07 watts/nsf; Mechanical: 2.3 watts/nsf

HVAC Req:

1.1 cmf/nsf

Structure/Foundation:

Concrete frame with sheer walls and spread footings

Laboratory Parameters

Lab Module:

10' 6" x 24'

Casework Mat'l:

Metal with epoxy tops

Fume Hoods:

Thirteen 6' chemical; two 6' radioisotopes; four 4' chemical; and one 8' chemical

Biosafety Cabinets:

Class II, Type A2

Project Team

Architect

Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects LLP

Consultant - Interior Design

Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects LLP

Consultant - Land Use Attorney

McCullough Hill Fikso Kretschmer Smith

Consultant - Landscape Architect

Zeidler Roberts Partnership

Consultant - Surveyor

Bush, Roed & Hitchings, Inc.

Consultant - Traffic Engineer

TDA Inc.

Engineer - Civil

KPFF Consulting Engineers

Engineer - Electrical

Affiliated Engineers Inc. (AEI)

Engineer - Mechanical

Affiliated Engineers Inc. (AEI)

Engineer - Structural

KPFF Consulting Engineers

General Contractor

Tulloch Construction

Supplier - Accoustical

Michael R. Yantis Associates

Supplier - Biosafety Cabinets

NUAIRE Inc.

Supplier - Casework

Kewaunee Scientific Corporation

Supplier - Code Support

Pielow Fair Associates

Supplier - Food Services

Stagecraft Industries

Supplier - Fume Hoods

Kewaunee Scientific Corporation

Supplier - Geotechnical

URS Corporation

Supplier - Hardware

Builders' Hardware & Supply Co.

Supplier - Reprographics

Reprographics Northwest

Supplier - Safety/Security Systems

Fred Zagurski Consultants

Supplier - Signage

Anderson Krygier

Vertical Transportation

Lerch Bates & Associates Inc.

Profile Created 08/11/2004

Last Updated 04/04/2006

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

Clinic Interaction Area at Base of Atrium

Fig. 2

8 Module Lab

Fig. 3

Program Head Faculty Office