NIH, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (Rocky Mountain Laboratories)
New 105,000 gsf world-class three-story, stand-alone research laboratory includes a 16,000 gsf high containment floor of BSL-4 labs, BSL-4/BSL-3Ag labs, BSL-4 animal holding rooms, insectary, aerobiology suites, and future imaging suite.
Support areas include BSL-2, BSL-3, administration training facilities, and NHP conditioning suites.
New infrastructure support facilities are being constructed to house new boilers, chillers and emergency generators. The high containment, animal containment and laboratory support programs are being designed with full interstitial mechanical floor above housing HEPA filters, critical life safety support systems and air handling units. A lower level will house the required effluent treatment and carcass disposal systems. The basic laboratory program including BSL-2 and other support laboratories, and the administrative program are to be housed in a two story component with mechanical services provided to the two floors through a combination of vertical and horizontal distribution.
The project is a strategic first component of the NIH/NIAID intramural biodefense agenda. Therefore, in the early definition phase of the project, the research program was determined to be unique and unlike the current catalogue of containment research models at the time, those designs were focused on basic research, diagnostics and disease surveillance. Identifying product development as the concept driver for the facility, the programming and planning team proceeded to develop new planning models based on the concepts of dynamic interdisciplinary research teams, containment core support services, and the emerging FDA Animal Rule as new drivers in containment facility planning specific to the biodefense research agenda.
Hemisphere Engineering is providing commissioning services for the high containment portion of this project as well as overall management of engineering services, and full mechanical, plumbing, controls, and fire protection design and coordination. Specialized systems design includes: liquid waste decontamination system and waste monitoring, tissue digester, and a study of the existing campus medical waste incinerators.
Hemisphere Engineering is also responsible for delivering full commissioning services throughout the Design, Construction and Acceptance Phase.
Completed in 2006.
