ExxonMobil Laboratory Consolidation

The existing laboratory facilities at Exxon's Buffalo Speedway and Friendswood sites and Mobil's Farmers Branch site were surveyed to determine the best alternatives to consolidating operations at the lowest cost and within the shortest period of time. The results include the creation of a Strategic Master Plan that presented a multi-phased construction program to create new laboratories and pilot facilities as well as concepts for reconfiguring existing laboratory, office space, and storage space at both Buffalo Speedway and Friendswood to accommodate new research laboratory functions.

Based on the survey information, ExxonMobil chose to reconfigure existing facilities to accommodate the relocation of 21 laboratories, 200 research scientists, technicians, and more than 3,400 separate pieces of laboratory equipment and hoods into 10 buildings that comprise Upstream Research

Project Information

Building Owner:

ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company

Owner Contact:

James B. Jackson, Manager General Services

Building Location:

Houston, Texas UNITED STATES

Project Type:

Renovation

Project Delivery Method:

Guaranteed Maximum Price

Project Timeline

Aug 1999	Planning Start
Sep 1999	Design Start
Feb 2000	Construction Start
May 2001	Target Completion

Project Cost:

$6,000,000

Construction Cost:

$5,800,000

Cost Per Sq. Ft:

$226

About These Cost Figures

Building Information

Project Includes:

Laboratory
Office
Pilot Plant
Research

Building Services:

DI, N2, compressed air, vacuum, O2, CO2, He, H2S, CHW, breathing air

Special Equip:

Media Absorption Device ? dry passive scrubber

Structure/Foundation:

Pre-engineered metal building, slab on grade with grade beam

Laboratory Parameters

Casework Mat'l:

Steel casework, epoxy resin countertops. Owner provided casework (relocated), LCS provide epoxy resin countertops

Fume Hoods:

20 4?wide up to 8? wide

Project Team

Architect

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Builder

Constructors Inc.

Engineer - MEP

Shah, Smith & Associates

Engineer - Civil

Pate Engineers

Engineer - Structural

ASA Engineers

Laboratory Planning

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Project Management

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Profile Created 10/04/2001

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.