Willard H. Dow Laboratory/Chemical Sciences Building Renovation

Project Information

Building Owner:

University of Michigan

Building Location:

Ann Arbor, MI USA

Project Type:

Expansion

Principal Building Function:

Teaching and research labs to accommodate organic and inorganic synthetic chemistry and interdisciplinary chemistry sciences such as macromolecular research, biophysics and chemically related biochemistry and medicinal chemisty.

Project Delivery Method:

Bid

Project Timeline

Jan 1993	Completion
Last known status: Completed

Project Cost:

$59,706,000

Construction Cost:

$59,706,000

About These Cost Figures

Building Information

Project Includes:

Education
Education: Classroom
Laboratory: Dry And Wet
Laboratory: Teaching

Total GSF:

405,900

Total NSF:

368,800

Building Services:

Non-potable hot and cold water, deionized water, compressed air, vacuum, steam, nitrogen, liquid nitrogen.

Project Team

Contractor

Mellon Stuart Construction Company

Engineer

Harley Ellis Devereaux

Profile Created 01/01/1993

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 Shot