Construction has begun on the new Bindley Bioscience Center, a research building at Purdue University for their campus in West Lafayette, Indiana. The biosciences and engineering facility is one of five centers planned for a new $100-million Discovery Park addition to the West Lafayette campus.
Designed by Flad & Associates, the new $15-million, 50,000-square-foot facility will support a variety of interdisciplinary research projects in the areas of genomics, proteomics, bioinformatics, and instrumentation development. The design of the building captures Discovery Park’s underlying concepts of interaction and collaboration. Open spaces will provide an environment conducive to spontaneous conversations and will encourage interaction among researchers and visitors at the Center.
The 18,000 square feet of laboratory space will be modularly configured to accommodate the dynamic nature of the project flow within the Center. The open-concept labs will include one high-hood intensity lab, one medium-hood intensity lab, two low-hood intensity labs, a laser imaging lab and a mass spectrometry lab.
Other project team members include Affiliated Engineers of Madison (mechanical, electrical and piping engineering); Thomason Clark Corporation (cost consultants); and Flad Structural Engineers (structural engineering). Completion is projected for spring of 2005.
