The new, 14-story, 334,000-sf building within the University City Science Center stands adjacent to the Penn and Drexel campuses.
The building includes ground-floor retail, the new Penn Center for Specialty Care with nine floors of outpatient clinical and surgical space, and three floors of general office space. The project is a joint development of the Science Center and Wexford Science + Technology, a BioMed Company.
After enabling an early start to construction by providing a complete set of construction documents on a fast-track schedule, Keast & Hood, by way of innovative engineering and close work with a wind-tunnel laboratory, helped enable the owner to competitively add two unplanned floors to the building after all foundations and ground-floor structure was built.
Other key features of the steel-framed structure include:
• Long cantilevers on three sides of the building to enable column-free spaces at the perimeter of the floor plates.
• Sophisticated vibration analyses in order to accommodate surgery, CAT, MRI, and lab space requirements.
LEED Silver certification is anticipated.
The new, 14-story, 334,000-sf building within the University City Science Center stands adjacent to the Penn and Drexel campuses.
The building includes ground-floor retail, the new Penn Center for Specialty Care with nine floors of outpatient clinical and surgical space, and three floors of general office space. The project is a joint development of the Science Center and Wexford Science + Technology, a BioMed Company.
After enabling an early start to construction by providing a complete set of construction documents on a fast-track schedule, Keast & Hood, by way of innovative engineering and close work with a wind-tunnel laboratory, helped enable the owner to competitively add two unplanned floors to the building after all foundations and ground-floor structure was built.
Other key features of the steel-framed structure include:
• Long cantilevers on three sides of the building to enable column-free spaces at the perimeter of the floor plates.
• Sophisticated vibration analyses in order to accommodate surgery, CAT, MRI, and lab space requirements.
LEED Silver certification is anticipated.
CLIENT: ZGF Architects LLP
LOCATION: Philadelphia, PA
TYPE: Academic, Commercial, Healthcare, Laboratory, SERVICES: BIM, New Construction, MATERIALS: Concrete, Steel, SUSTAINABILITY: LEED, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Completed project photography © Halkin Mason Photography | Wind tunnel model © Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory, Western University
