Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building I

Because lab spaces can be adjusted to respond to each project’s needs and accommodate new research equipment with only minor modification, the ISTB I design fosters and endorses teamwork. The $51.2-million structure is truly interdisciplinary, housing the new Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity, the Center for Metabolic Study, and the Magnetic Resonance Research Center, as well as the social insect research, neural science and engineering, and cell and tissue engineering groups. These departments and groups have access to and share graduate and research education laboratories, offices, conference rooms, support spaces, BSL-3 laboratories, a magnetic resonance suite, data center, and a two-level basement with a 40,000-sf vivarium.

The construction process was put on fast track to meet the needs of new faculty members arriving with their high-profile projects, and to keep up with an accelerated pace of funding. Other challenges of the project were space constraints at the site--located at the very center of a 55,000 student campus and the highly technical aspects of the vivarium, magnetic resonance suite, data center and BSL-3 labs. Construction services included full-time on-site construction supervision and inspections, quality control, safety program, cost monitoring, schedule control, site management, shop drawing administration, change order management, and systems installation.

ISTB I’s design and construction fulfill the need for collaboration and cooperation to promote advances in research.

Project Information

Building Owner:

Arizona State University

Building Location:

Tempe, Arizona UNITED STATES

Project Type:

New Construction

Principal Building Function:

Research and teaching facility

Project Delivery Method:

Construction Management

Project Timeline

Oct 2003	Planning Start
Oct 2004	Design Start
Nov 2005	Construction Start
Apr 2006	Completion
Last known status: Completed

Project Cost:

$59,000,000

Construction Cost:

$58,970,608

Cost Per Sq. Ft:

$327

About These Cost Figures

Building Information

Project Includes:

Biocontainment
Data Center
Education
Engineering
Interdisciplinary Research
Laboratory
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Vivarium

Total GSF:

180,000

Project Team

Architect

Perkins+Will

Builder

Gilbane Building Company

Engineer - MEP

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

Engineer - Structural

KPFF Consulting Engineers

Laboratory Planner

GPR Planners Collaborative, Inc.

Supplier - Building Automation Controls

Johnson Controls Inc.

Supplier - Concrete

Baker and Associates

Supplier - Glass Block

Walters & Wolf

Supplier - Laboratory Equipment

ISEC Inc.

Supplier - Precast

Coreslab Structures (LA) Inc

Profile Created 03/02/2007

Last Updated 10/12/2007

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