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Northwestern University
Pancoe Life Sciences/CEAR Building, Evanston, IL

Scope: Laboratory programming, planning and design
Project Completion: 2002
Project Size: 147,290 GSF / 88,000 NSF
Construction Cost: $45,100,000
Reference: Quent Bruhn, Proj. Mgr., 847-467-1106

The new Life Sciences Building, located on the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, is intended to greatly enhance and expand selected Life Science Research programs and attract new talented faculty. With an emphasis on cross discipline collaboration, the new facility in addition to providing for the research needs of Northwestern University, will house selected research laboratories for the use of nearby Evanston Hospital. The research portion of the Life Science Building provides space consisting of four generic laboratory floors and a full (12,000 NSF) basement vivarium.

The most important feature of the programming and planning effort was Northwestern University's clear direction that the Life Sciences Building contains generic laboratories and flexible support space. The generic laboratories are designed to accommodate virtually any benchtop research while the flexible support space can be tailored to specific requirements of individual researchers.