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Hospitals & Clinics

A state-of-the-art Biomedical Research Facility for University of Atlanta

Emory University breaks ground on HOK-designed research facility

by Georgina Johnston 22 January 2020

Scheduled to open in April 2022, the new Health Sciences Research Building II will enhance Emory’s mission of advancing collaborative and translational research across many areas throughout the Woodruff Health Sciences Center.

Emory University broke ground today on a state-of-the-art research facility that will focus on innovation, synergy and impact for biomedical research. The new facility, Health Sciences Research Building II (HSRB II), will be built on Haygood Drive beside its sister facility, Health Sciences Research Building I.

Plans for HSRB II include six storeys above ground and two storeys below ground, offering more than 346,000ft² of dedicated research space and cutting edge interdisciplinary research programmes.

Construction is scheduled to begin in January 2020, with a targeted completion date of April 2022. HOK is designing the new HSRB II, with JE Dunn Construction building the facility.

This new building will help enhance Emory’s mission of advancing collaborative and translational research across many areas throughout the Woodruff Health Sciences Center. HSRB II will provide a unique setting for researchers to focus on targeted discoveries and developments.

J. S. Lewin, MD, executive vice president for health affairs at Emory University and president and CEO of Emory Healthcare.

The building will include both laboratory and collaborative space for researchers. An innovation zone, including an accelerator space for start ups and entrepreneurial research, is planned to promote translation of scientific discoveries.

HSRB II is in the vanguard of new biomedical research buildings, such as the Francis Crick Institute in London, creating a remarkable work environment, connectivity and synergy⁠, open labs and workspaces with soft barriers⁠, to facilitate discovery of the biology underlying human health.

D. Stephens, MD, vice president of research for the Woodruff Health Sciences Center.

The team is targeting LEED Gold certification for the building. HOK’s design supports Emory’s sustainability efforts and goals for aggressive energy use reduction with features including occupancy sensors for interior lighting control; automated shades for limiting heat gain and controlling glare; a solar panel array; a green roof plaza along the side of the building facing Emory’s Lullwater Preserve; a geothermal well field below the surface parking; permeable paving at the surface parking; a rainwater capture system; and indoor bicycle storage.

The new facility will be funded in part from a generous $400 million gift from the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation, with $200 million of that gift directed for biomedical research. The additional $200 million will help build Emory’s newest cancer facility, Winship at Midtown, which broke ground in November at Emory University Hospital Midtown.


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