Research and Development

The Hauptman-Woodward Institute’s Structural Biology Research Center in Buffalo, N.Y., received a National Award of Merit from the Society of American Registered Architects (SARA) in January of 2008. Designed by Cannon Design of San Francisco with RFD (Research Facilities Design) as laboratory design consultant, the Structural Biology Research Center is a showcase for the state-of-the-art biomedical research that takes place within its laboratories.

Columbia University is planning to construct the Jerome L. Greene Science Center on 17 acres in the West Harlem area of New York City. Housing multidisciplinary neuroscience research involving computer science, genetics, and psychology, the facility is slated for completion in 2015. The project is part of the first phase of Columbia’s expansion onto the Manhattanville site located two-thirds of a mile from Columbia’s main campus. New buildings for the Columbia Business School and the School of the Arts will be included in phase one.

Semiconductor manufacturer Lam Research Corp. will relocate 350 workers to a leased two-building complex in Livermore, Calif. The facility was previously owned and occupied by KLA-Tencor Corp. Each building has a footprint of 120,000-sf. Lam will maintain its current headquarters in Fremont, Calif.

Northern Arizona University’s Applied Research and Development (ARD) Building was awarded a LEED Platinum certification by the U.S. Green Building Council in January of 2008. The project was designed by Burns Wald-Hopkins Architects and built by Kitchell Construction. The top floor of the three-story facility will house NAU's Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics. The 59,821-sf facility, which opened in September of 2008, is the most sustainably designed building in Arizona and one of the top three greenest buildings in the world.

Missouri State University is planning to construct an electromagnetic device fabrication laboratory at the Jordan Valley Innovation Center (JVIC) in Springfield. Funded by a $125,000 donation from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation, the facility will enable scientists from academia and industry to engage in nanotechnology research and development to create devices that can sense heat, radio, or microwave energy for defense and homeland security applications.

The Department of Defense broke ground on the $92 million Joint Center of Excellence for Battlefield Health and Trauma Research at Fort Sam Houston in Texas in January of 2008. Accommodating combat casualty care and trauma research missions, the 150,000-sf project is part of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) initiative. Slated for completion in September of 2009, the research center will be collocated with the Institute of Surgical Research, which will receive a 5,000-sf renovation.

The University of California, Riverside broke ground on its new Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) Building on January 10, 2008. The $53-million project will be the first facility at UCR devoted to nanotechnology research and is slated for completion in 2010. The 77,000-asf project will accommodate interdisciplinary instruction and research in nanotechnology, materials science, and bioengineering. The facility will house joint programs for the Bourns College of Engineering and the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences.

The Georgia Institute of Technology is constructing the $80 million Marcus Nanotechnology Building in Atlanta. Ground was broken on the project, which houses the NRCB (Nanotechnology Research Center Building) cleanrooms, in August of 2006 with completion slated for summer of 2008. The project is comprised of five stories of laboratory and office space and a 30,000-sf, three-level cleanroom.

Bristol University is constructing the £11 million Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information in the United Kingdom. Slated for completion in spring of 2008, the facility will feature advanced noise and vibration reduction technologies. The building will accommodate researchers from the disciplines of biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering, mathematics, and physics engaged in nanotechnology and quantum computation research.

The U.S. Department of Energy announced on December 4, 2007 that a new Theory and Computing Sciences Building would be constructed at Argonne National Laboratory. The 200,000-sf research and engineering facility will house the extremely fast IBM Blue Gene/P computer and over 600 laboratory employees. Accommodating research in astrophysics, biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences, ecosystem simulation, and nuclear applications, the facility will collaborate with the Computation Institute, a partnership with the University of Chicago.

Harvard University opened the $155 million Laboratory for Integrated Science and Engineering (LISE) in Cambridge in November of 2007. Sited mostly underground, the building includes a 10,000-sf cleanroom with advanced filtration capabilities and vibration-isolated architecture. Designed by Rafael Moneo, LISE features open spaces for spontaneous researcher interaction and collaboration.

The University of Notre Dame broke ground in November of 2007 on the $69.4 million Stinson-Remick Hall of Engineering in Notre Dame, Ind. The 142,000-sf facility will house a nanotechnology research center, an energy center, an 11,800-sf semiconductor processing and device fabrication cleanroom, and an undergraduate learning center. Designed to enhance interdisciplinary research, the project is slated for completion by late 2009.

Purdue University dedicated the $53 million Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering in October of 2007. The 125,000-sf facility is home to two schools in the College of Engineering, the School of Materials Engineering and the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Designed to foster teamwork and interaction, the building contains 20,000 sf of research labs and 60,000 sf of undergraduate teaching facilities, including discipline-specific design labs. The project broke ground in October of 2004.

Wesleyan College completed the 42,000-sf Munroe Science Center in Macon, Ga., in August of 2007. The $12.5 million facility houses classrooms, offices, and laboratories for chemistry, physiology, ecology, behavioral neurosciences, and developmental, reproductive, cell, and molecular biology. Featuring 11 teaching laboratories, a rooftop greenhouse, astronomy platform, animal suite, environmental room, community learning center, and a built-in water purification system, the building was designed by Lord, Aeck & Sargent.

Indiana University Bloomington dedicated Simon Hall, known as Multidisciplinary Science Building I, on October 16, 2007. The $55.7 million, 141,084-gsf project features modular, flexible laboratories for interdisciplinary research. Housing biologists, chemists, physicists, and geneticists engaged in bioscience and genomics research, the facility also houses offices and conference space for the Linda and Jack Gill Center for Biomolecular Science and the Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation.