Vernal G. Riffe, Jr. Building

The ten-story addition is located adjacent to the University Medical Center and houses research labs, faculty offices, the new combined Library for the Colleges of Biological Sciences and Pharmacy and the Pharmacy Instrumentation Center. In addition, partial renovations were made to Parks Hall, which houses the College of Biological Sciences.

The 34,000-sf Library is located on floors one and two of the new addition. The first floor also contains a chemical instrumentation center, with sophisticated measuring and analytical equipment. Floors four through nine house laboratories and support space for research in pharmaceutics, medicinal chemistry, pharmacology, biochemistry, molecular genetics and microbiology.

Project Information

Building Owner:

Ohio State University

Owner Contact:

Jill Morelli, AIA, University Architect

Building Location:

Columbus, OH UNITED STATES

Project Type:

Expansion,Renovation

Principal Building Function:

Research Laboratory

Project Delivery Method:

General Contractor

Project Timeline

Jan 1990	Planning Start
Feb 1990	Design Start
Sep 1992	Construction Start
Nov 1994	Completion
Last known status: Completed

Project Cost:

$21,700,000

Construction Cost:

$18,400,000

Cost Per Sq. Ft:

$143

About These Cost Figures

Building Information

Project Includes:

Biology
Education
Education: Classroom
Education: Faculty Office
Laboratory: Research
Laboratory: Wet
Library
Research

Total GSF:

128,000

Total NSF:

72,000

Efficiency:

56%

Building Population:

194

People Density:

660 gsf/person

Building Services:

Hot water, distilled water, gas, compressed air, N2, acid waste

Office Size:

140-faculty NSF

Power Req:

62 watts/nsf

HVAC Req:

2.08 cfm/nsf

Structure/Foundation:

Rigid precast concrete superstructure with caissons and grade beams

Laboratory Parameters

Lab Module:

11' x 25'

Casework Mat'l:

Wood casework, epoxy resin countertops

Fume Hoods:

79: 4',5',6'

Biosafety Cabinets:

Provision for six N.I.C.

Project Team

Architect

Perkins+Will

Architect

Burgess & Niple

Builder

Sherman R. Smoot & Co.

Consultant - Civil

John E. Foster & Associates, Inc.

Consultant - Electrical

Buckeye Electrical Co.

Consultant - Fire Protection

Julian Speer

Consultant - MEP Engineer

W. E. Monk's Company

Consultant - Plumbing

Julian Speer

Supplier - Building Automation Controls

Johnson Controls Inc.

Supplier - Casework

Fisher Hamilton

Supplier - Fume Hoods

Fisher Hamilton

Supplier - HVAC

Trane Company

Profile Created 11/01/1994

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

Exterior

Fig. 2

Floorplan