Johns Hopkins University Builds Undergraduate Teaching Lab and Biology Research Wing

Johns Hopkins University is building the $62 million Undergraduate Teaching Laboratories and Biology Research Wing in Baltimore. The 105,000-sf project is an expansion of the Mudd Hall Biology Complex and will provide teaching labs for biology, chemistry, neuroscience, and biophysics on the lower three floors. The upper floor will accommodate biology research with open labs, lab support, procedure space, meeting and seminar rooms, and faculty offices. Featuring cooling beams, rain gardens, and two heat wheels, the building will be a model for low energy usage with a benchmark target set of using half the energy of the average of the existing science buildings on campus. Construction began on the facility in June of 2011 with completion expected in June of 2013. The project team includes architect and engineer Ballinger of Philadelphia and construction manager Whiting Turner of Baltimore.