State of Oregon Hillsboro, Oregon, USA Project Statistics Area: 78,000 GSF Completion: September 2007 Cost: $26,500,000 Construction: Tilt-up Concrete (Existing Shell)
PHL/DEQ Analytical Laboratory The Oregon Department of Administrative Services (DAS), together with the Public Health Laboratory (PHL), and the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), engaged our architectural entity, IDC Architects to create new analytical laboratories in an existing building designed for multi-tenant, light commercial use. With a collaborative and flexible design approach, IDC Architects’ multi-discipline team of architects and engineers created a facility that supported the diverse public health and safety missions of these organizations in the most beneficial and cost-effective way. Program Reconciliation At the outset, the project team faced a significant challenge: prior programming efforts had identified the clients’ need for 95,000 GSF, while the building’s capacity was just 75,000 GSF. Together with our lab planning sub-consultant, we held a series of prototyping sessions to find space-saving solutions and building modifications that met the requirements of individual user groups, using significantly less total area.
Certification: SEED Silver (State Energy Efficiency Design Program) Services Provided Programming Architectural Design Engineering Design Cost Estimating Program Elements Biology Analytical Laboratories Chemistry Analytical Laboratories Biosafety Level 3 Laboratory Trace Metals Cleanroom Offices
“ The design team’s collaborative methods, overall management approach and project controls ensured steady progress throughout the requirements gathering, planning and design phases, and continue to add value during construction.’ Terry Moore, Department of Administrative Services
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During interactive instrument layout exercises with staff, lab and support space needs were validated and optimized. Working from a “total project” standpoint, including performance, cost, constructability, safety, and sustainability, we developed creative ways to maximize usable space in the existing shell, such as equipment mezzanines and minor perimeter additions. Adaptive Re-use Because the building was designed for multi-tenant, light commercial use, installation of large, openbay laboratory spaces, specialty biocontainment and cleanroom environments, and major new utility systems presented another significant challenge. The team responded by designing a new and entirely independent structural system to support air handlers and exhaust fans, coordinated with the wall layout below to preserve usable space.
throughout the building core and organized along major paths of travel to allow departments to adapt the spaces to their own unique use. Biosafety Performance The facility’s BSL-3 capabilities had to meet Department of Homeland Security guidelines, as well as other stringent standards required by PHL and DEQ as designated response agencies for biological and other hazardous material emergencies.
Meanwhile, a key design criterion was mandated by the State Energy Efficiency Design (SEED) program, which called for exceeding Building Code energy standards by more than 20%. IDCA’s design brought daylight into the building core using skylights and interior relites, improving energy performance and the work environment. We developed lighting mock-ups to convey working environments and ensure the space would perform to expectations. Flexibility Lab flexibility was another key priority. In large open suites, lab benches were designed for multiple functions, allowing adaptation to seasonal workflow changes and quick response to epidemic or environmental emergencies. Equipment rooms were located to provide as much sharing as possible between labs, and to adapt to future uses. Laboratory suites with special requirements for cleanliness, metalsfree contamination, or biocontainment, were located in the support zone, avoiding overly-specific design in the general lab zones. Flexible-use zones were created ©2012 CH2M HILL Confidential and Proprietary
Security and safety was enhanced by locating the BSL suites within the building core; the location took advantage of several layers of access control, while remaining on a direct path to the exterior, to avoid contaminating the rest of the lab with unknown substances. Closed circuit television systems were located throughout the BSL suite for additional safety and security. High-performance filtration and waste treatment systems were located directly above the BSL suites on an equipment mezzanine, saving program space and providing maintenance access and inspection points for lab systems and the critical containment envelope. IAT030912092846PDX