Northwestern University has completed a new research building on the downtown Chicago campus of its renowned medical school. The new building contains three major research centers: the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Center for Genetic Medicine, and the Institute for Bioengineering and Nanoscience in Advanced Medicine.
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.
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Northwestern University |
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Building Location:
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Chicago, Illinois UNITED STATES
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Project Type:
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New Construction
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Principal Building Function:
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Medical research facility |
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Project Delivery Method:
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Construction Management
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Project Timeline
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| Mar 2002 | Construction Start |
| Sep 2005 | Completion |
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Last known status: Completed
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| Construction Cost: |
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$130,000,000 |
| Cost Per Sq. Ft: |
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$309 |
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About These Cost Figures
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Project Includes:
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Atrium
Biomedical
Education
Education: Classroom
Healthcare
Healthcare: Cancer Center
Laboratory: Nanotechnology
Vivarium
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420,000 |
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Laboratory Planner
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GPR Planners Collaborative, Inc.
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| Profile Created 10/01/2005 |
| Last Updated 11/06/2006 |
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Hence, it is possible for the cost of one building to include a steam boiler, while
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