Harvard University – Northwest Labs | Harvard University Northwest Labs |
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A unique Skidmore,
Owings, and Merrill (SOM) design sets Harvard’s Northwest Laboratory apart. The structure not only accommodates laboratory
facilities, but encompass an entire network of collegial services
including; office space, classrooms, seminar rooms, parking garage, chilled
water plant and electrical substation.
Varied
uses are not the only ingenuity in this Northwest Laboratory design. The proposed intent to accommodate
collaborative scientific efforts combines bioengineering, neuroscience, and astrophysics
which are amongst thirty research groups experimenting in the structure. By uniting these disciplines, there is a possibility
of reaching solutions to questions that were not attainable in the past.
The construction
of this eight story project includes innovations of its own. While steel, concrete, mechanicals, and
drywall framing are installed in the four above grade levels three glory holes have
been filled with equipment trudging through the earth below to build the
remaining four basement levels.
Central
scope consisted of Drywall and Acoustical Ceilings for the 460,000 square foot building.
Also included in the scope were glass-fiber reinforced gypsum columns, metal
panel ceilings, and other specialty items.
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