Baylor College of Medicine celebrated the groundbreaking of the Margaret M. Alkek Building for Biomedical Research in Houston on Sept. 16, 2005. The 203,000-gsf, eight-story facility will feature flexible lab and office space designed to foster interdisciplinary collaboration in areas including cardiovascular sciences, diabetes, cancer, pharmacogenomics, imaging, informatics, and proteomics. Completion is expected in May 2007. The building will include five laboratory floors totaling 130,000-gsf and two vivarium floors totaling 50,000-gsf featuring a flexible, library-style rack system to house 32,000 ventilated rodent cages. The high barrier facility includes a fully automated cage washing system and a fully automated bottle washing system that will be the first of its kind in the United States. Each vivarium floor has a full interstitial utility space above to promote service and maintenance without compromising the research barrier. The project team includes Lord, Aeck & Sargent of Atlanta as architect; Vaughn Construction of Houston as general contractor; Bard, Rao & Athanas Consulting Engineers as MEP/FP engineer; and Walter P. Moore of Houston as structural and civil engineer.
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