Insectary and Quarantine Facilities

The internalized environment and stringent containment requirements presented limited opportunity to open the building to its surroundings. The triangular site, steep topography and adjacency to Picnic Hill, designate the multilevel facility to unify with the visual, pedestrian and vehicular connections on the campus. The three-story steel braced frame structure with designed punched openings accommodate greenhouses on the second and third floor. The design allows the greenhouses to be planned as independent structures that sit upon a platform formed by the building. Greenhouses, positioned on a north-south axis, are oriented for optimum solar exposure.

The 26,000-sf facility provides research and rearing areas at four levels. The first floor contains the Level 1 general insectary unit, an outdoor work area and greenhouses and is situated immediately adjacent to the existing facility. The second floor contains the Level 2 general quarantine facilities and greenhouses, which are accessed through air lock decontamination facilities. The third floor houses both Level 2 primary quarantine and Level 3 quarantine areas, each accessed through separate air locks and decontamination facilities.

Building materials were chosen to provide the University with low-maintenance surfaces while providing high insulative and containment qualities and appearances. The ground floor opens onto an outdoor work area and service yard where durability and low maintenance are paramount. The building's primary circulation lobby, located on the north side of the building, is designed as a series of enclosed balconies that face Picnic Hill. The lobby area promotes interaction among various researchers and research teams by providing space for the informal gatherings and discussions adjacent to shared facilities.

To compliment the campus, the building's colors were derived from natural hues of the semi-arid Riverside environment.

Project Information

Building Owner:

University of California, Riverside

Owner Contact:

Darius Maroufkhani, AIA, Senior Architect

Building Location:

Riverside, CA UNITED STATES

Project Type:

New Construction

Principal Building Function:

Research and Containment Facility

Project Delivery Method:

General Contractor

Project Timeline

May 1995	Planning Start
May 1995	Design Start
Jun 1998	Construction Start
Sep 1999	Target Completion
Last known status: Construction

Construction Cost:

$9,500,000

Cost Per Sq. Ft:

$340

About These Cost Figures

Building Information

Project Includes:

Education
Education: Classroom
Greenhouse
Laboratory: Research
Office: Researcher
Research
Vivarium

Total GSF:

28,020

Total NSF:

16,400

Efficiency:

59%

Building Population:

People Density:

1401 gsf/person

Building Services:

Vacuum air, water, steam, gas, electricity, sewage and chilled water.

Special Equip:

Sterilizers, Growth chambers, hot boxes, plant growth rooms, environmental rooms, fog systems, bench systems, shade systems, HID-RPS lighting systems, computer control systems, class 100,000 hepa filtration system, humidity control systems

Power Req:

.06 KVA/nsf

HVAC Req:

3 cfm/nsf

Structure/Foundation:

Grade beam with steel brace frame

Laboratory Parameters

Casework Mat'l:

Metal cabinets with epoxy tops

Fume Hoods:

4:6' chemical hoods, 1:6' isotope hood

Biosafety Cabinets:

1: 4' class II type B3; 2: 4' class II B2; 4: filtered work stations

Project Team

Architect

tBP/Architecture

Consultant - Civil

Psomas & Associates

Consultant - Containment

Agritechnove, Inc.

Consultant - Cost Analysis

Hanscomb Associates, Inc.

Consultant - Electrical

Earl Walls Associates

Consultant - Greenhouse

Agritechnove, Inc.

Consultant - Laboratory Design

Earl Walls Associates

Consultant - Landscape Architect

Fong & Associates

Consultant - Mechanical

Earl Walls Associates

Consultant - Structural

Martin, Chow & Nakabara Inc.

Profile Created 09/01/1999

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