The University of California, San Diego has completed construction of the new $45-million Leichtag Family Foundation Biomedical Research Building sited on the School of Medicine campus. General contractor McCarthy’s contract included construction of a four-level, 163,000-sf building with one below-grade level. The research building houses 40,000-sf of wet and dry lab space on four levels with 30 lab modules per floor, cold rooms, procedure rooms, dedicated dark rooms and research offices. The fourth floor houses Howard Hughes Medical Institute-supported research. The structure’s five-story atrium, which is open from the first floor to the roof level, is a focal point of the Scholarly Interaction Space and includes a 2,000-sf, 130-seat conference center.
The building includes office areas at the northwest and southeast portion of the facility on all four levels. Designed by Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership, the biomedical science facility is located within the Health Sciences complex and is designed to foster casual interaction through strategic location of common facilities. The building is organized with laboratories in the center and research offices at the east and west ends of the facility. Natural light is brought into interior workspaces through clerestory windows and labs have floor-to-ceiling windows with up-sloped ceilings that increase light into the building and improve air circulation. The lab block was designed with exterior walkways that also serve as sunshades for the lab spaces.
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