College of Veterinary Medicine

The ground floor of the facility is zoned into three distinct areas: administrative offices, common lecture rooms and a media center and animal surgery rooms. Animal support facilities are also provided, including small animal holding suites with adjacent animal prep and procedure rooms.

The upper floors provide generic laboratories and research offices for the changing needs of advanced medical research and research grants. The design is based on a racetrack building model for laboratory facilities, providing common instrument rooms and common support spaces at the center with generic laboratories on the perimeter. The integration of these functions provides interaction between teaching and research.

Project Information

Building Owner:

University of Florida

Owner Contact:

Al Dampe

Building Location:

Gainesville, FL UNITED STATES

Project Type:

New Construction

Principal Building Function:

Academic Veterinary Medicine Research Laboratories and Teaching Facility.

Project Delivery Method:

General Contractor

Project Timeline

Sep 1991	Planning Start
Sep 1992	Design Start
May 1994	Construction Start
May 1996	Completion
Last known status: Completed

Construction Cost:

$19,973,865

Cost Per Sq. Ft:

$143

About These Cost Figures

Building Information

Project Includes:

Animal Hospital
Conference Room
Education
Education: Administration
Education: Lecture Or Seminar Hall
Healthcare: Surgery
Laboratory: Research
Laboratory: Teaching
Office: Researcher
Vivarium

Total GSF:

139,000

Total NSF:

80,620

Efficiency:

58%

Laboratory Parameters

Lab Module:

11' x 11'

Casework Mat'l:

Oak fixed casework

Fume Hoods:

38: 6'

Biosafety Cabinets:

10: 6', Type A

Project Team

Architect

Flad Architects

Builder

Charles R. Perry Contractor

Consultant - Laboratory Programmer

Research Facilities Design (RFD)

Consultant - MEP Engineer

Affiliated Engineers Inc. (AEI)

Supplier - Casework

Fisher Hamilton

Profile Created 05/01/1996

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

Exterior

Fig. 2

Floorplan