Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences
Occupancy: 1999
Published January 2001
Georgia Institute of Technology's 650,000-sf Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences houses bioscience, biotechnology and bioengineering laboratories -- essential for research conducted at the complex. The groundwork for the project emphasizes flexibility, accessibility, cooperation and security, critical for the success of the building.
Phase I, a 131,000-sf building, houses both graduate and undergraduate student-interdisciplinary research programs. Laboratories are designed to be as flexible as possible allowing the facility to be modified in response to changing demands in research and investigative techniques.
The facility, erected on the north central part of the campus, takes full advantage of the hillside to allow for a basement to house the animal vivarium. The main ground floor entrance opens onto a two-story gateway for the biocomplex courtyard and permits easy access to the building's administrative offices. The main floor houses a large seminar room, faculty offices, an NMR suite and two wings of main laboratory space. A three-story atrium serves as the focal point of the core area.
The second and third floors house labs and faculty offices. Specialty and core support labs are placed at the crossing of each floor and open onto the central atrium.
Specialty components at the Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience include a magnetic resonance laboratory, cell culture facilities, an x-ray diffraction laboratory, a vivarium and a biomodeling laboratory for computational approaches to problems in biology and medicine. Typical labs provide equipment for research in bioscience, tissue cultures, synthetic and organic chemistry.
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Georgia Institute of Technology |
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Owner Contact:
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Richard Long, Project Director
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Building Location:
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Atlanta, GA UNITED STATES
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Project Type:
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New Construction
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Principal Building Function:
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Bioscience Laboratory |
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Project Delivery Method:
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Design/Build
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Project Timeline
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| Mar 1997 | Planning Start |
| May 1997 | Design Start |
| Apr 1998 | Construction Start |
| Dec 1999 | Target Completion |
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Last known status: Construction
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| Project Cost: |
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$30,000,000 |
| Construction Cost: |
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$28,650,000 |
| Cost Per Sq. Ft: |
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$190 |
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About These Cost Figures
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Project Includes:
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Biology
Chemistry
Conference Room
Education
Education: Administration
Education: Classroom
Education: Faculty Office
Laboratory: Biomedical Research
Laboratory: Research
Research: Biotech
Vivarium
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| Total GSF: |
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131,600 |
| Total NSF: |
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86,257 |
| Efficiency: |
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65% |
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Building Population:
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350
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People Density:
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376 gsf/person
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Building Services:
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Point-of-use Di, vacuum, lab gas
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Special Equip:
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NMR, environmental rooms
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Office Size:
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120/180 NSF
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Power Req:
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18 watts/nsf
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HVAC Req:
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1.7 cfm/nsf
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Structure/Foundation:
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Cast-in-place concrete frame with post-tensioned slabs and beams
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Lab Module:
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260 sf
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Casework Mat'l:
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Wood, resin counters
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Fume Hoods:
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160: 6' & 8'
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Biosafety Cabinets:
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40 Class II, Type A
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Architect
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Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum Inc. (HOK)
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| Profile Created 01/01/2001 |
| Last Updated 04/04/2006 |
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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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IBB Southeast View Photo courtesy of BEERS.
IBB Lobby/Atrium Photo courtesy of BEERS.
Floorplan
Rendering Rendering courtesy of Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum, Inc. Notes:
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