Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for the Chemical Sciences

Project Information

Building Owner:

The Scripps Research Institute

Building Location:

La Jolla, CA USA

Project Type:

New Construction

Principal Building Function:

Chemical and biological research (including plant biology)

Project Delivery Method:

General Contractor (GC)

Project Timeline

May 1996	Completion
Last known status: Completed

Construction Cost:

$36,000,000

About These Cost Figures

Building Information

Project Includes:

Laboratory: Wet
Research

Total GSF:

165,000

Building Services:

Compressed medical air, compressed lab air, medical vacuum, lab vacuum, deionized H2O, nitrogen

Project Team

Architect

Tucker/Sadler and Associates

Consultant

WYA

Contractor

Rudolph and Sletten Inc.

Engineer

Randall Lamb Associates

Engineer

Tsuchiyama & Kaino

Engineer

RBF/Sholders & Sanford, Inc.

Engineer

Willis Engineering

Supplier - Laboratory Airflow Control

Phoenix Controls Corporation

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.