A major biopharmaceutical company is the first tenant of the new Gateway of Pacific research center in Oyster Point. This location will act as a hub for the company’s oncology business as well as focus on research, innovation and patient care. The 13-story and 5-story towers, 380,000 sq ft tenant improvement, include preclinical animal rooms, research labs, and office support spaces.
PROJECT FEATURES
- Design Assist HVAC, Plumbing & Process Piping
- Detailed Coordination
- Phased Delivery
- Rough-in largely completed in a 10-month period
- Takt time scheduling
PROJECT SUMMARY
ACCO fabricated and installed 350,000 lbs of sheet metal for the vivarium, lab, and office supply and exhaust. Additionally, ACCO installed 56,000 feet of pipe (10.6 miles) for chilled water, heating hot water, steam, and steam condensate return systems. The facility includes two tenant custom air handlers to serve the vivarium with 100% outside air; quantity (650) variable air volume terminal units; and quantity (150) tenant improvement fire smoke dampers. The project also included a new electric steam boiler system to serve autoclaves, rack washers, tunnel washers and an air-cooled heat recovery chiller to serve as back-up heating and cooling.
Process & Plumbing included a combined 98,000 feet of pipe (18.9 miles). The Process team installed six floors of lab piping across two towers including a reverse osmosis deionized (RO/DI) generation skid with a 2,100-gallon stainless steel storage tank in the basement, animal drinking water, CDA, VAC, ultra-high purity nitrogen (UHPN2), N2, CO2, O2, He, and vacuum jacketed LN2 piping to serve 34 freezers. Plumbing scope spans 13 stories plus basement in one tower and five stories plus the basement in the adjacent tower. Tenant plumbing systems include lab water and lab waste, a tempered loop throughout the building, an added water heater, and a reclaimed water system.