Environmental Research Center

Published January 1999

Project Information
Building Owner:		Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Building Location:		Research Triangle Park, NC USA
Project Type:		New Construction
Principal Building Function:		Environmental research laboratory facility
Project Timeline		Jan 1999 Target Completion Last known status: Design
Construction Cost:		$213,000,000
		About These Cost Figures
Building Information
Project Includes:		Conference Room Laboratory: Dry And Wet Pilot Plant Research Vivarium
Total GSF:		1,100,000
Total NSF:		635,000
Building Services:		VAV, outside air economizers, direct digital controls, central automated control system. Three 3,500-ton, electrically driven centrifugal chillers
Project Team
Architect		Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum Inc. (HOK)
Consultant		GPR Planners Collaborative, Inc.
Profile Created 01/01/1999
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.