Final Bid Packages Going Out for Saint Louis University’s $67 Million Biomedical Research Center

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Reported by Annette Kreuger, Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas). Saint Louis University (Saint Louis, Missouri) is nearing completion of its most ambitious and expensive capital project to date. The first phase of the $80 million project called for the construction of a $67 million biomedical research tower. Named in honor of 1943 Nobel Prize winner Edward A. Doisey PhD, a pioneer in the field of biochemistry, the Edward A. Doisy Research Center will focus on five key areas: cancer, liver disease, heart/lung disease, aging and brain disease and infectious disease vaccine development. The Doisy family contributed $30 million towards the cost of the new building, which is entering the final phase of construction. Clayco Construction (Saint Louis, Missouri) will be releasing the remaining bid packages, including those for paving and landscaping through May 2007.

Designed by Cannon Design (Saint Louis, Missouri), the Doisy Research Center will be just over 200,000 square-feet and filled with a vast array of labs filled with state of the art equipment. The second through eighth floors will feature flexible, modular laboratories that are designed to facilitate collaborative research among scientists from different disciplines. Core spaces on each of these floors will be used for specialized and shared lab and support functions such as equipment rooms, dark rooms, cold rooms, autoclave/glasswash rooms and tissue culture rooms. The eighth floor will also feature a Biosafety Level-3 (BSL-3) Lab suite. The ninth floor is primarily mechanical equipment penthouse, with a large conference room located at the west end. A laboratory animal vivarium, building docks and support areas will be located on the lower level.

In addition to the Doisy Center, the school will be spending another $13 million in the second phase to perform extensive renovations to existing medical research facilities. While the Doisy will be complete later this year, the entire project is expected to be done in 2008.

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