Building Design and Construction Services for Research Facility

The government authority in Buffalo, New York, seeks building design and construction services for a new five-story, slab-on-grade research facility with a mechanical penthouse supporting building infrastructure systems. The facility will provide flexible laboratory environments and specialized infrastructure for basic, translational, clinical, and computational research.

Planned specialized research spaces include open-concept biomedical laboratories, cell culture rooms, terminal rodent procedure rooms, environmental and cold rooms, heavy equipment bays, centralized fume hood alcoves, and glassware wash and autoclave facilities. Building infrastructure will include laboratory gas distribution, reverse-osmosis and deionized water systems, and high-efficiency laboratory exhaust systems.

The building will support research programs in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, advanced therapeutics and theranostics, healthy aging, neuroscience and pain research, and cardiovascular and kidney disease research. It will also include faculty offices, researcher workspaces, conference rooms, and collaboration areas. The design process will evaluate opportunities for geothermal energy integration, and an embedded program study will be required. Design services will cover the entire project, with a contract period of one year.