Robert H. Lurie Medical Center

The facility includes 12 floors that accommodate state-of-the-art biomedical research laboratories, faculty offices and support spaces for the fields of genetics and molecular medicine, cancer, neuroscience, and biomedical engineering. The ground floor includes classrooms, auditoriums, informal lounge space, and a sky-lit campus center for special functions.

The Lurie Medical Research Center includes a 70,000-sf vivarium housed on two sub-floors, a clean and dirty corridors/system, housing/procedure suites, isolation/quarantine suites, survival operating room suites, injection suites, and all required staff and animal support areas.

Developed on the former site of the Passavant Hospital, a significant challenge of the project was the development of a design solution sensitive to the surrounding urban character of the medical school campus, yet an appropriate and innovative statement for the future of the school.

Project Information

Building Owner:

Northwestern University

Building Location:

Chicago, Illinois UNITED STATES

Project Type:

New Construction

Principal Building Function:

Medical research facility

Project Delivery Method:

Construction Management

Project Timeline

Mar 2002	Construction Start
Sep 2005	Completion
Last known status: Completed

Construction Cost:

$130,000,000

Cost Per Sq. Ft:

$309

About These Cost Figures

Building Information

Project Includes:

Atrium
Biomedical
Education
Education: Classroom
Healthcare
Healthcare: Cancer Center
Laboratory: Nanotechnology
Vivarium

Total GSF:

420,000

Project Team

Architect

Davis Brody Bond Aedas

Builder

Turner Construction

Consultant - Accoustical/AV

Shen, Milson & Wilke Associates

Consultant - Construction Management

AMEC Construction Management

Consultant - Environmental

Rowan Williams Davies & Irwin, Inc. (RWDI)

Consultant - Telecommunications

Shen, Milson & Wilke Associates

Cost Estimator

Morgan Construction Consultants Inc.

Engineer - MEP

BR+A/Bard,Rao + Athanas Consulting Engineers Inc.

Engineer - Civil

Terra Engineering

Engineer - Structural

Chris P. Stefano Associates

Laboratory Planner

GPR Planners Collaborative, Inc.

Supplier - Elevators

Jenkins & Huntington

Profile Created 10/01/2005

Last Updated 11/06/2006

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

Exterior at Night

Fig. 2

Lab Interior

Fig. 3

Sky-lit Campus Center

Fig. 4

Floor Plan