Earth and Marine Sciences (Natural Sciences 4 Building)

Project Information

Building Owner:

University of California, Santa Cruz

Building Location:

Santa Cruz, CA USA

Project Type:

New Construction

Principal Building Function:

Organismal, ecological, evolutionary biology, Institute of Marine Sciences, Institute of Tectonics, research areas include clean geochemcial labs, core electron microscope facility, rock crushing, classrooms, lecture halls and teaching labs.

Project Timeline

Jan 1993	Completion
Last known status: Completed

Construction Cost:

$27,900,000

About These Cost Figures

Building Information

Project Includes:

Education: Classroom
Conference Room
Education
Laboratory: Dry And Wet

Total GSF:

148,500

Building Services:

Normal services and laboratory plumbing, power and air systems.

Project Team

Architect

Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects LLP

Consultant

McLellan & Copenhagen LLC

Contractor

SAE/Continental Heller

Engineer

Rutherford and Chekene

Engineer

Glumac International

Profile Created 09/25/2000

Last Updated 09/20/2005

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.