Molecular and Cellular Biology Building

The laboratory portion of the building will house open, modular, and generic laboratories for research and relevant support spaces, including animal facilities. In addition, this project will provide classrooms and instructional labs for undergraduate, graduate, and professional students to foster interaction between the research and academic communities.

The building required extensive connections to various adjacent buildings with different floor-to-floor heights. Functional relationships and interaction opportunities between buildings determined the selected floor connections.

Project Information

Building Owner:

University of Minnesota

Owner Contact:

Earl North, Principal, Armin North Associates

Building Location:

Minneapolis, MN UNITED STATES

Project Type:

New Construction

Principal Building Function:

Lab/vivarium and instructional

Project Timeline

Feb 1998	Planning Start
May 1999	Design Start
Nov 1999	Construction Start
Mar 2002	Target Completion
Last known status: Construction

Project Cost:

$88,250,000

Construction Cost:

$68,250,000

Cost Per Sq. Ft:

$260

About These Cost Figures

Building Information

Project Includes:

Biology
Education
Education: Classroom
Laboratory: Research
Vivarium

Total GSF:

263,000

Total NSF:

151,000

Efficiency:

57%

Building Population:

3196

People Density:

89.9 gsf/person

Building Services:

Clean steam, RODI water, compressed air, and emergency power

Special Equip:

Animal transfer station, tunnel washer, cage and rack washer, bulk sterilizer

Office Size:

100 NSF

Power Req:

10 w/nsf

HVAC Req:

3 cfm/nsf

Structure/Foundation:

Caissons, one-way pan joist

Laboratory Parameters

Lab Module:

10' 4" x 37' 6"

Casework Mat'l:

Wood, moveable, epoxy resin

Fume Hoods:

50 @ 6'

Biosafety Cabinets:

7 Type II-B2 (fully exhausted)

Project Team

Architect

Perkins+Will

Consultant - Laboratory Planner

GPR Planners Collaborative, Inc.

Consultant - MEP Engineer

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

Profile Created 03/31/2001

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

Molecular and Cellular Biology Building