George W. & Edwina S. Tarry Research and Education Building

Lower floors house teaching laboratories programmed for a class size of 180, while research labs, on upper floors, can be reconfigured to respond efficiently to changing needs. Individual temperature controls and the use of 100% outside air allow for controlled environments in lab areas. A heat-recovery system conserves energy year-round.

Vertical exhaust stacks, in the form of spires and towers, echo the character of the adjacent buildings, maintaining the campus context.

Project Information

Building Owner:

Northwestern University

Building Location:

Chicago, IL UNITED STATES

Project Type:

Expansion

Principal Building Function:

Teaching, Research and Support Programs

Project Delivery Method:

Fast Track

Project Timeline

Jan 1990	Completion
Last known status: Completed

Construction Cost:

$50,604,958

Cost Per Sq. Ft:

$186

About These Cost Figures

Building Information

Project Includes:

Education
Education: Faculty Office
Laboratory: Research
Laboratory: Teaching
Laboratory: Wet
Research

Total GSF:

272,000

Total NSF:

143,000

Project Team

Contractor

Schal Associates

Engineer

Perkins+Will

Profile Created 01/01/1990

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.