New Laboratory Building for NIOSH*

Project Information

Building Owner:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Building Location:

Morgantown, WV USA

Project Type:

New Construction

Principal Building Function:

Laboratory, research, support for NIOSH requirements with classrooms.

Project Delivery Method:

General Contractor (GC)

Project Timeline

Jan 1995	Completion
Last known status: Completed

Project Cost:

$32,000,000

Construction Cost:

$29,500,000

Cost Per Sq. Ft:

$214

About These Cost Figures

Building Information

Project Includes:

Education: Library
Headquarters
Laboratory: Wet

Total GSF:

148,900

Total NSF:

119,120

Building Services:

Nuclear MRI, pathology, pharmacology, mycology, immunology, cellular biochemistry

Project Team

Consultant

Earl Walls Associates

Contractor

Pray Contracting Company

Engineer

Cannon Design

Engineer

MSES Consultants, Inc.

Supplier

Strobic Air Corporation

Supplier - Laboratory Airflow Control

Phoenix Controls Corporation

Profile Created 01/01/1995

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.