Science Building Addition | Tradeline, Inc.

The addition consists of two large floors and a partial basement. The facility, designed to allow teaching and research functions to occupy separate floors, reflects faculty concerns about accessibility, student traffic and security.

The building layout relates to the users' desire to share equipment and laboratory support services among departments. The biology and chemistry departments requested their departments not be separated, but be adjacent to each other in order to share resources. The physics' laboratories had particular requirements for electrical power, instrumentation and vibration isolation. Core labs include laser/optics, low- and high-resolution spectroscopy, interferometry, fiber optics and holography. Power and utility services are fed to the physics labs from overhead trunk lines running in adjacent service corridors.

Labs are located on a slab-on-grade which is structurally isolated from adjacent spaces to minimize the transfer of any vibration within the building.

Project Information

Building Owner:

California State University, Fullerton

Owner Contact:

Jay Bond, Vice President, Facility Planning & Construction

Building Location:

Fullerton, CA UNITED STATES

Project Type:

New Construction

Principal Building Function:

Research and Teaching Laboratory

Project Delivery Method:

Bid

Project Timeline

Jan 1986	Planning Start
Sep 1987	Design Start
Jan 1991	Construction Start
Jul 1993	Completion
Last known status: Completed

Project Cost:

$25,800,000

Construction Cost:

$19,400,000

Cost Per Sq. Ft:

$186

About These Cost Figures

Building Information

Project Includes:

Biology
Chemistry
Computers
Education
Education: Classroom
Education: Faculty Office
Education: Physics
Geology
Laboratory: Dry And Wet
Life Sciences
Research

Total GSF:

97,000

Total NSF:

60,000

Efficiency:

62%

Building Population:

795

People Density:

99 gsf/person

Building Services:

Di, natural gas, compressed air, vacuum, sea water

Power Req:

7.5 watts/nsf

HVAC Req:

2 cfm/nsf

Structure/Foundation:

Spread footing/steel framing

Laboratory Parameters

Lab Module:

11' x 36 '

Casework Mat'l:

Modular wood or acid-resistant laminate w/epoxy tops or acid-resistant laminate tops

Fume Hoods:

150; 3'x 8'

Biosafety Cabinets:

14; 3?, 4? , 6?

Project Team

Architect

Anshen+Allen

Builder

McCarthy Building Companies Inc.

Consultant

Ove Arup and Partners

Consultant - Laboratory Design

Research Facilities Design (RFD)

Supplier - Fume Hoods

Fisher Hamilton

Supplier - HVAC

Pace Manufacturing

Profile Created 07/01/1993

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

Floorplan

Fig. 2

Lab

Fig. 3

Exterior