Oceanography and Physical Sciences

The four-story building includes teaching laboratories, classrooms, faculty offices, administrative spaces, lecture rooms and an exhibition space. Programmatic elements are grouped as identifiable building components. Student/teacher interaction is fostered through the organization of laboratories and offices on either side of a circulation spine which functions as communal space. The lecture rooms and exhibition spaces are combined to form an entry feature which becomes the physical and intellectual focus of the building and its environment. This focus activates the space of the newly defined Science Quadrangle.

The building reinforces gathering science departments in one location and affords the opportunity for academic interaction.

Project Information

Building Owner:

Old Dominion University

Owner Contact:

Ed Herbert, Project Manager

Building Location:

Norfolk, VA UNITED STATES

Project Type:

New Construction

Principal Building Function:

Research and Teaching Facility

Project Delivery Method:

General Contractor

Project Timeline

Jul 1989	Planning Start
Dec 1992	Design Start
Nov 1995	Construction Start
Sep 1997	Completion
Last known status: Completed

Construction Cost:

$12,000,000

Cost Per Sq. Ft:

$131

About These Cost Figures

Building Information

Project Includes:

Education
Education: Administration
Education: Classroom
Education: Faculty Office
Education: Lecture Or Seminar Hall
Laboratory: Teaching
Life Sciences

Total GSF:

91,300

Total NSF:

55,690

Efficiency:

68%

Building Population:

1200

Building Services:

Pure water, gas, chilled water

Laboratory Parameters

Casework Mat'l:

Wood/resin

Fume Hoods:

Biosafety Cabinets:

Project Team

Architect

Perkins+Will

Builder

W.M. Jordan

Consultant - Design

RWKB Architects

Consultant - Laboratory Design

GPR Planners Collaborative, Inc.

Supplier - Building Automation Controls

Landis & Gyr

Supplier - HVAC

Governair

Profile Created 09/01/1997

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