Plant Sciences Institute | Tradeline, Inc.

Project Information

Building Owner:

United States Department of Agriculture

Building Location:

Beltsville, MD USA

Project Type:

New Construction

Principal Building Function:

Crops research including molecular biology, tissue culture, chemistry, pathology, horticulture, physiology and genetics

Project Delivery Method:

General Contractor (GC)

Project Timeline

Mar 1995	Completion
Last known status: Completed

Construction Cost:

$11,278,035

About These Cost Figures

Building Information

Project Includes:

Laboratory
Research

Total GSF:

68,000

Total NSF:

44,200

Building Services:

Lab and support areas furnished with filtered air and 100% exhaust.

Project Team

Architect

Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum Inc. (HOK)

Contractor

Morse Diesel/Fetsch Joint Venture

Engineer

Joseph R. Loring & Associates, Inc.

Engineer

ReStl Designers

Engineer

A. Morton Thomas & Associates, Inc.

Engineer

LAW Engineering

Profile Created 03/01/1995

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.

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