The building had previously been occupied by a subsidiary company that vacated in 2003. The driver for the Building D project was a need for updated Quality Assurance laboratories and a desire to consolidate all other QC and QA lab and office functions into a single facility.

As part of the consolidation, a new ISO Class 7 (Class 10,000) QA sterility suite and new ISO Class 8 (Class 100,000) Cell Banking labs were constructed on the second floor. In addition to the interior improvements, the project included a major seismic upgrade, a new roof, and new HVAC systems.

Project Information
Building Owner:		Novartis AG
Building Location:		Emeryville, California UNITED STATES
Project Type:		Renovation
Principal Building Function:		Laboratory
Project Delivery Method:		General Contractor
Project Timeline		Apr 2004 Completion Last known status: Completed
Project Cost:		$6,100,000
Construction Cost:		$5,100,000
Cost Per Sq. Ft:		$176
		About These Cost Figures
Building Information
Project Includes:		Laboratory Office Pharmacology Pilot Plant Process: Wet Research
Total GSF:		29,000
Project Team
Profile Created 01/05/2007
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.