Academic, Residence and Research Building

The facility, connected to the existing White Building, houses three major programmatic elements:

Academic/Student Life

The lower two floors of the new tower accommodate 42,000 gsf of space for academic and student life activities, including teaching laboratories for chemistry, physics. micro-biology and pharmacology.

John Richard Fennell Residence Building

The east end of the upper six floors contains 48,000 gsf of housing for 175 students with a separate entrance and controlled lobby and elevators.

Tenant/Research Space

The west end of the upper six floors provides 83,000 gsf of laboratory and research space leased to Brigham and Women's Hospital/Channing Laboratories. The research floors are entered from their own separate and controlled lobby and from elevators that also connect at the service level to the adjacent Brigham and Women's Hospital, Longwood Medical Research Center. In addition, Channing Laboratories occupies 14,000 sf for animal quarters and storage.

A skylit atrium and lobby connects the new building to the existing White Building in addition to serving as the major entrance. Renovations and expansions to the existing White Building improve administration, library and classroom space. A below-grade parking garage accommodates 88 cars.

Project Information

Building Owner:

Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Sciences

Owner Contact:

Dr. George E. Humphrey, VP for Administration and Planning

Building Location:

Boston, MA UNITED STATES

Project Type:

New Construction,Renovation

Principal Building Function:

Mixed-Use Facility

Project Delivery Method:

Construction Management

Project Timeline

Jul 1992	Planning Start
Jul 1992	Design Start
Jan 1994	Construction Start
Mar 1996	Completion
Last known status: Completed

Construction Cost:

$44,800,000

Cost Per Sq. Ft:

$191

About These Cost Figures

Building Information

Project Includes:

Chemistry
Dormitories
Education: Administration
Education: Classroom
Education: Physics
Education: Student Center
Laboratory: Research
Laboratory: Teaching
Library
Life Sciences
Parking Structure
Pharmacology
Research

Total GSF:

233,850

Total NSF:

137,256

Efficiency:

59%

Building Population:

743

People Density:

314 gsf/person

Building Services:

Natural gas, pure water, vacuum compressed air, N2

Special Equip:

Fermenter

Office Size:

Varies NSF

Power Req:

18 watts/nsf

HVAC Req:

2.2 cfm/nsf

Structure/Foundation:

Steel frame (braced & moment)/mat foundation

Laboratory Parameters

Lab Module:

11' 4 x 25'

Casework Mat'l:

Wood, conventional, epoxy tops

Fume Hoods:

43: 5' - 6'

Biosafety Cabinets:

14: 5'

Project Team

Architect

Shepley Bulfinch

Consultant - Electrical

BR+A/Bard,Rao + Athanas Consulting Engineers Inc.

Consultant - Mechanical

BR+A/Bard,Rao + Athanas Consulting Engineers Inc.

Consultant - Plumbing

R.W. Sullivan, Inc.

Consultant - Structural

McNamara/Salvia, Inc.

Contractor

William A. Berry & Son

Supplier - Building Automation Controls

Phoenix Controls Corporation

Supplier - Building Automation Controls

Honeywell

Supplier - Casework

Fisher Hamilton

Supplier - Fume Hoods

Fisher Hamilton

Supplier - HVAC

York International

Supplier - HVAC

Miller Picking

Profile Created 03/01/1996

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.

Fig. 1

Floorplan

Fig. 2

Exterior