Science Building
Occupancy: 1998
Published November 1998
The 64,500-gsf Science Building at Prince George's Community College provides classrooms, teaching laboratories, faculty offices and related spaces for the physical science and biology departments in the College's divisions of science, mathematics and health technology. The structure replaces an existing laboratory and classroom facility.
The Science Building is composed of two simple brick laboratory and classroom blocks at right angles to one another. Building core elements, lab preparation/storage spaces and faculty/administration offices occupy the space between the blocks. These joint-use functions are enclosed by a faceted metal and glass curtain wall situated to respond to the campus vehicular entrance.
The facility houses classrooms, faculty and administrative offices, a variety of conference and study spaces, a computer lab, individual study labs and a range of teaching laboratories for biology, chemistry and physics. Labs are supported by appropriate instrument, preparation and storage rooms. The building includes a central chemical storage room and a greenhouse.
This building includes multimedia optical fiber cabling access to centralized (campus-wide) voice, data and audiovisual equipment source, designed to accommodate not only current technologies, but also future technologies as they develop. Each instructional and student workstation is outfitted with data outlets. In addition, one of the laboratories is equipped with distant learning capabilities.
Entry to the Science Building from a landscaped plaza is adjacent to the main pedestrian campus entry. A pedestrian bridge connection between the second floor of an adjacent building and the Science Building creates another link for the movement of students.
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Prince George's Community College |
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Building Location:
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Largo, MD 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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Classroom/Laboratory |
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Project Delivery Method:
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General Contractor
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Project Timeline
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| Apr 1995 | Planning Start |
| Jun 1995 | Design Start |
| Jul 1997 | Construction Start |
| Nov 1998 | Completion |
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Last known status: Completed
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| Construction Cost: |
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$10,512,840 |
| Cost Per Sq. Ft: |
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$163 |
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About These Cost Figures
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Project Includes:
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Biology
Chemistry
Computers
Conference Room
Education
Education: Administration
Education: Classroom
Education: Distance Learning
Education: Faculty Office
Education: Multimedia
Education: Physics
Greenhouse
Laboratory: Teaching
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| Total GSF: |
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64,500 |
| Total NSF: |
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38,300 |
| Efficiency: |
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59% |
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Building Population:
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940
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People Density:
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69 gsf/person
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Building Services:
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Compressed Air, HW, CW, DI, natural gas, lab vacuum
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Special Equip:
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sterilizer/NMR
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Office Size:
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90-135 NSF
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Power Req:
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33 watts/nsf
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HVAC Req:
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2.40 cfm/nsf
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Structure/Foundation:
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Moment connection steel frame with concrete spread footing
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Lab Module:
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9'-6? x 31'-6?
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Casework Mat'l:
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Natural wood finish, modular casework, epoxy resin countertops
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Fume Hoods:
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19: 4', 6'
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Biosafety Cabinets:
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2: 4' class II type B
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Supplier - Fume Hoods
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Fisher Hamilton
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| Profile Created 11/01/1998 |
| 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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Floorplan
Science Building Photo courtesy of KCF/SHG Incorporated Notes:
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