IMEG provided engineering and design services for the expansion and renovation to accommodate the new Innovation Center at Ball Horticultural Company in West Chicago. The project included demolishing the central hub’s colonnade building and constructing an addition between two buildings. The addition features a greenhouse, headhouse, an array of laboratories for plant pathology, molecular biology,
The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, the world’s largest independent nonprofit research institute focused on plant science, utilizes several intelligent building technologies in its flexible, new, state-of-the-art William H. Danforth Wing. The 136,000-sf addition provides an optimum environment for the plants and the research and is designed to adapt to future changes in the way
IMEG provided engineering design for Valent BioSciences Corporation’s new Biorational Research Center at Innovation Park Lake County in Libertyville, Illinois. Valent, a maker of environmentally friendly pesticides, built out 65,000-sf of dedicated lab and office space at Innovation Park as a replacement for its existing multiple-building research site in Long Grove, Illinois. The self-contained, state-of-the-art
IMEG provided engineering design and services for the new Health Sciences Education Center (HSEC) at the University of Minnesota, which houses the six colleges and schools of the Academic Health Center. HSEC is one of the most comprehensive interprofessional education facilities in the country, providing the University’s Academic Health Center a much-needed front door and
The Methodist Hospital Research Institute provides 300,000-sf to meet the hospital’s need for advanced medical research space. Located on a tightly developed site in the urban Texas Medical Center, the 12-story building has six floors of laboratory and support space for the study of infectious diseases. The new building is seamlessly integrated into The Methodist
The National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC) facility is located within the National Interagency Biodefense Campus at Fort Detrick, Maryland. The Department of Homeland Security developed the NBACC project to support their efforts in guarding against biological threats and the emergence of infectious diseases. This project provides the necessary facilities for researchers to investigate
The National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) represents the pinnacle of research for protecting the United States’ food and animal agriculture supply. It is a facility under the joint direction of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Agriculture with a primary mission of studying foreign animal, emerging and zoonotic diseases
Rice University commissioned the BioScience Research Collaborative (BRC) to enable researchers and physicians from the Texas Medical Center to partner with Rice University scientists and engineers on bioscience and biotechnology research. At 477,000–sf and 10 stories tall, the BRC is the largest academic building in Rice’s history. The building base houses a vivarium, 280-seat auditorium, 100-seat seminar room,
The largest construction project in campus history, the Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Building provides labs and classrooms for graduate and undergraduate students in multiple disciplines including agriculture, life sciences, veterinary medicine, chemistry, and engineering. IMEG provided structural engineering and design services for the facility, which houses a large microscopy and imaging center with state-of-the-art electron microscopes.
The $167 million Galveston National Laboratory is one of only two such facilities funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease/National Institutes of Health that serves as part of a national biodefense network. This 172,000-sf state-of-the-art biocontainment research facility provides much-needed laboratory space for researchers from around the United States and includes BSL-4
