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Two multi-story atriums connect the lab floors and provide a visual connection and gathering space for the staff. Common functions such as conference rooms and a library are located off of this space on all floors. The building also includes a large cafeteria which doubles as a meeting space, and a seminar room for scientific conferences. Each floor includes break rooms and extra corridor space for informal meetings.

The interior fit-up changes Millennium's office culture from closed, private offices to open, flexible work spaces. The intention is to promote the "cross pollination" of ideas in a variety of disciplines and collaboration among scientists, executives, and staff. There are two workspace standards: 10' x 15' (for senior staff offices and shared two-person offices) and 10' x 10' (for single occupancy).

Biology and chemistry laboratories, where researchers work most intensely, are located on the exterior. Labs are designed on a 10'-6" x 45' module including bench space, an equipment zone within the lab, and a separate zone for isolated support rooms such as dark rooms, cold rooms, and hot labs. All labs are designed generically to accommodate the rapidly changing nature of Millennium's research.

The labs house genomics-based research into specific disease targets for pharmaceutical research and basic research into the genetic engineering and structure of disease mechanisms for atherosclerosis, obesity, diabetes, central nervous system conditions, and others, along with drug discovery, drug assay, compound screening, gene sequencing, robotic screening, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) imaging, and extensive mass spectrometry.




Project Information
Building Owner: Millennium Pharmaceuticals
Owner Contact: Carlisle Consulting Group Inc., Concord, Mass.
Building Location: Cambridge, MA UNITED STATES
Project Type: New Construction
Principal Building Function: Biotechnology research
Project Delivery Method: Guaranteed Maximum Price
Project Timeline
Jun 1997Planning Start
Jul 1997Design Start
Jan 1998Construction Start
Apr 1999Completion
Last known status: Completed
Project Cost: $42,300,000
Construction Cost: $34,800,000
Cost Per Sq. Ft: $174
About These Cost Figures
Building Information
Project Includes: Conference Room
Headquarters
Library
Research: Biotech
Research: Pharmaceutical
Total GSF: 200,000
Total NSF: 122,900
Efficiency: 61%
Building Population: 600
People Density: 333 gsf/person
Building Services: RO/DI, N2, LN2, compressed air, vacuum, gas, CO2
Special Equip: Robotic screening equipment, cold rooms, NMR, animal facility
Office Size: 10' x 10' / 10' x 15' NSF
Power Req: 15 w/nsf total; 12 w/nsf lighting/equipment
HVAC Req: 2 cfm/sf (labs); 1 cfm/sf (offices)
Structure/Foundation: Braced-frame steel with pressure-injected piles
Laboratory Parameters
Lab Module: 10'-6" x 45'
Casework Mat'l: Wood casework, epoxy and chemical surface tops
Fume Hoods: 50 fume hoods in each building (100 total), 6' each
Biosafety Cabinets: 30 cabinets, Class II
Project Team
Architect Tsoi/Kobus & Associates Inc.
Construction Management John Moriarty & Associates
Construction Management Siena Construction
Consultant Carlisle Consulting Group Inc.
Consultant - Accoustical/AV Acentech Incorporated
Consultant - Civil Engineering Cullinan Engineering Co., Inc.
Consultant - Elevator LeVee & Associates
Consultant - Geotechnical McPhail Associates
Consultant - Landscape Architect The Halvorson Co., Inc.
Consultant - Lighting Lam Partners Inc.
Consultant - MEP Engineer Abbood/Holloran Associates, Inc.
Consultant - Specifications Richard White & Sons
Consultant - Structural Engineer LeMessurier Consultants Inc.
Consultant - Traffic Engineer Vanasse Hagen Brustlin Inc.
Supplier - Biosafety Cabinets NUAIRE Inc.
Supplier - Building Automation Controls Siemens Building Technologies
Supplier - Casework Fisher Hamilton
Supplier - Elevators Otis Elevator
Supplier - Fume Hood Controls Siemens Building Technologies
Supplier - Fume Hood Controls Phoenix Controls Corporation
Supplier - Fume Hoods Fisher Hamilton
Profile Created 01/01/2000
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.
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Fig. 1

Aerial View

Millennium Pharmaceuticals' new headquarters, which occupies 200,000 sf of the 280,000-sf, two-building University Park at MIT in Cambridge, Mass., provides the company with a highly flexible facility responsive to the company's business objectives and work processes.

 
Fig. 2

Bridge

A bridge connects the two buildings and creates a gateway from the park to nearby residential areas.

 
Fig. 3

Atrium

Two multi-story atriums connect the lab floors and provide a visual connection and gathering space for the staff.

 

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