Building Statistics
General Building Statistics
- Building Name : Landscape Building at Janelia
Farm Research Campus
- Location and Site (current address) : 19710 Janelia
Farm Boulevard, Ashburn, VA 20147
- Building Occupant Name : Howard Hughes Medical
Institute
- Occupancy or Function Types (according to BOCA 1008.1.2)
:
- B Business (170,209 SF)
- A3 Assembly (54,679 SF)
- S2 Parking/Storage/Eqpmt (219,871 SF)
- Size (Total SF) : 546,436 SF
- Number of Stories Above Grade : 0
- Number of Stories Below Grade : 3 Stories
- Actual Dates of Construction (Start-Finish) Fall 2002
– Spring 2006
- Cost
- Overall Project : $500M
- Building : $340M Soft Costs : $160M
Project Delivery Method : Fast track design-bid-build
Primary Project Team
Owner
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
4000 Jones Bridge Road
Chevy Chase, MD 20815-6789
www.hhmi.org
Owner’s Representative
Mark Winkler Company
4900 Seminary Road, Suite 900
Alexandria, VA 22311
www.markwinkler.com
Project Manager
Jacobs Facilities, INC.
1100 North Glebe Road, Suite 500
Arlington, VA 22201
www.jacobs.com
Architect
Rafael Vinoly Architects PC
50 Vandam Street
New York, NY 10013
www.rvapc.com
Construction Manager
Turner Construction Company
4601 North Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA 22203
www.turnerconstruction.com
Structural Engineer
Thornton Tomasetti Engineers
24 Commerce Street
Newark, NJ 07102
www.ttengineers.com
Mechanical Engineer
Burt Hill Kosar Rittlemann Associates
400 Morgan Center 100 East Diamond St.
Butler, PA 16001-5977
www.burthill.com
Landscape Planners
Andropogon Associates
10 Shurs Lane
Philadelphia, PA 19127
www.andropogon.com
Civil Engineers
Dewberry & Davis LLC
602 South King Street, Suite 201
Leesburg, VA 20175-3907
www.dewberry.com
A/V. Telecome.Acoustical
Shen Milson & Wilke
417 Fifth Street
New York, NY 10016
www.smwinc.com
Food Service
Cini-Little International, INC.
20250 Century Blvd., Suite 100
Germantown, MD 20874
www.cinilittle.com
Elevator Consultant
Atlantic Consulting
65 Old Solmons Island Road, Suite 200
Annapolis, MD 21401
www.atlcongrp.com
Lighting Consultant
Cline Bettridge Bernstein Lighting Design, INC.
20 West 22 Street
New York, NY 10010
www.cbbld.com
Lab Consultants
Research Facilities Design
3965 Fifth Avenue, Suite 500
San Diego, CA 92103
www.rfd.com
Waterproofing Consultants
Simpson Gumpertz & Heger INC.
1355 Piccard Drive, Suite 220
Rockville, MD 20850
www.sgh.com
Geotechnical Engineer
Geoconcepts Engineering INC.
604 South King Street, Suite 200
Leesburg, VA 20175
www.geoconcepts-eng.com
Building System Information
Major National Codes
- Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code – 2000
- BOCA International Code – 1996
- IBC 2000
- International Mechanical Code 1996
- International Plumbing Code 1995 with 1996 Supplement
- CABO Model Energy Code
- National Electric Code
- NFPA
- Mixed use occupancy non-separated with code exception request,
using certain sections from IBC 2000 and NFPA 45 2000 Edition.
- Three unenclosed convenience stair openings between the first
and third levels (VSUBC 713.3 Floor Opening Enclosures).
- Four control areas with 100% of the exempt amounts on the second
and third floors (VSUBC 417.2 Control Areas/Exempt Amounts).
Code exceptions
Architecture
- Understand the researchers' needs versus their preferences
- Focus the planning effort on what will or could happen versus what is happening today
- Keep work spaces standardized and rational
Janelia Farm Campus is designed to be a world-class biomedical research facility to achieve the long-term goal of promoting unconstrained scientific research. It is located on the outskirts of the Washington Metropolitan Area in Ashburn, VA. Howard Hughes Medical Research Medical Institute was chartered in Delaware on December 17, 1953. The charter states: "The primary purpose and objective of the HHMI shall be the promotion human knowledge within the field of the basic sciences (principally the field within the field of medical research and medical education) and the effective application thereof the benefit of mankind." The institute provides grants for international research scholars world-wide. $49.7 million in grants to strengthen education programs were awarded to colleges and medical schools, as well as to public schools, grades K-12. After 52 years of conducting research on over 70 university campuses across the United States, HHMI decided to build its own facility. The design is guided by four principles:
Make the work spaces adaptable over time to accommodate changes in research In order to realize these goals, HHMI conceptualized a facility where scientists, engineers, and information technology professions from all over the world could gather and reside. There are three buildings on campus, the Landscape Building, the short-term stay Conference Center, and Long-term housing townhouses, all of which are located surrounding a pond. The focus of this thesis project will be the Landscape Building.
As a result of the historic requirements for the site, the architect RVA designed the building to be an extension of the hill on which the Mansion is built. This prevents the protected view of Sugar Loaf Mountain to be maintained and essentially put the building completely underground from all but the south perspective. It is a three-story structure with two upper lab floors and a meeting-service floor at the bottom level. The lab floors are stepped back creating terrace space where the office pods are located. Two glass-encased stairs radially cross the building connecting the ground floor to the roof terrace. There is also a 300 car-parking garage located behind the labs on the third floor.
The entire length of the 900ft façade runs a glass corridor giving daylighting and picturesque views to the labs spaces opposite the corridor. The building is based on the idea of the strong relationship between lab and office space. Vinoly placed the office pods on the terraced roofs, each one having three exterior glass walls. Behind these pods are large lab spaces designed to be common space for the different research groups to share. The biochemistry lab spaces are designed to be extremely flexible, with lab equipment and chemical and gas connections easily moved around without costly renovations. Adjacent to the labs are smaller support rooms such as cold rooms, dark rooms, isotope labs, chemical storage space, along with general rooms of various sizes. Behind this support belt is the equipment service corridor that runs the length of the building. Along this corridor is a 6ft band housing all MEP equipment. It was designed so that when maintenance is necessary; all work can be done outside the lab space. This is beneficial for both the maintenance crew and scientist. The draw back is the cost to set such a great amount of space aside for MEP services. There are also large areas that will be used as future expansion space.
Building Envelope
The roof system is a garden roof on all levels. The only façade is entirely a glass curtain wall.
More information has been requested.
Construction
Information has been requested.
Zoning & Historical
Janeilia Farm is a “modified French-style manor” built in 1936 by a famous architect. The house is protected by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Also, the view of Sugarloaf Mountain in Fredrick County Maryland from the dinning room window is also protected. Therefore, any building on this site needed to preserve both the house and the view. This was Vinoly’s reason for designing an underground building. The view of the mountain is framed by the 4 exhaust stacks.
Zoning: Residential
Electrical
Electrical power is supplied by Dominion Virginia Power on a 34.5KV 600A direct buried feeder. <Main switchgear specs 16341>. The main switchgear is rated 600A, 34.5kV, 3f, 3W. Next, substation MP is rated at 1200A, 4.16kV, 3f, 3W. This feeds the three current chillers with expansion for one additional future chiller. In addition, standby power is fed from Substation MP. There are currently four substations A,B,C, and D (future) that step down power with VPI 3000kVA dray transformers (34.5-480 Y/277) connected to a 277/480V, 4000A, 3f, 4W bus.
More information has been requested.
Lighting
Information has been requested.
- Lab Exhaust
- Vivarium
- Exhaust
- Garage Exhaust
- Radioisotope
- Exhaust with Hepa Filter (1,500CFM)
- Steam Vent
- Dishwasher Exhaust
- General Exhaust
- 2 De-aerator surge feed water tanks
- 3 Flash separator and economizer
- 5 Air separators
- 2 Unit heaters
- 6 Shell and tube heat exchangers
- 3 Plate and frame heat exchangers
- 6 Expansion tanks
- 11 Breather Apparatuses
- 1 Side steam filter separator
- 1 Packaged water softener
The Landscape Building's uses supply air is 90% outdoor air due to the nature of the space. Exhaust air from lab space cannot be recirculated at the risk of contamination. The front side of the building receives the majority of the supply air, while the back half of the building does not as the back half is primarily service and corridor space. The concept of this is that all the air will circulate to the back of the building where the exhaust grill are located, creating one big loop. This reduces the amount of air needed to be supplied.
The office spaces are served by constant-volume parallel-fan powered boxes under the floor with VAV primary air dampers in the underfloor plenum. The rest of the building uses a combination of variable volume boxes and constant volume boxes.
There are fan coil units located in all data/telecomm rooms. Ten air conditioners are located in the data on the first floor providing 133,700 Btu/hr heating and 582.2 Btu/hr in cooling.
The auditorium is supplied with conditioned air using a series of circular ducts in a radial pattern over the room. All the ductwork is lined with dry wall to reduce the amount of sound entering the space.
The indoor parking garage is ventilated using four intake air louvers and fans that supply 28,125 CFM each. These are located on the south corner of the building.
There are four exhaust stacks located near the main stair cases. Collectively they are used for the following exhaust systems:
Each exhaust fan is equipped with a sound attenuator to reduce the amount of noise coming from the stacks because a major pedestrian walk way runs between the two pairs of stacks.
There are two smaller boilers, one if which is a future boiler, that each have a ABMA output of 3,125 MBA. The two large boilers (1 back up) have an ABMA output of 50,210 MBA.
Each of the 15 variable frequency drive AHU supplies a total of 45,000CFM (min O.A. 45,000CFM). Each AHU has a heating load of 3,202 MBH and 392 tons of cooling. There are 15 cooling coil pumps that each pump 120 gpm. Because almost all the supply air is outdoor air, there is only need for one major plenum. The supply air leaving the AHUs enters directly into the mechanical service tunnel. This tunnel contains 132x120 SA & OA ducts that serve the entire building.
There are 5 cooling towers and 2 future that each have a load capacity of 1,200 nominal tons. There are also 5 existing chillers and 2 future that also have a nominal capacity of 1,200 tons.
Other major system equipment includes:
Structural
The structural system for the Landscape Building is a combination of reinforced concrete, reinforced masonry walls, structural steel, and post-tensioned steel. The foundation is comprised of trellis post footings ranging in bearing pressure from 4KSF up to 40 KSF. The slab on grade rangers from 6" to 24." For example, slab 4, zone C on the foundation level has a thickness of 2'. The majority of columns on level 1 are concrete columns with a few composite columns. The second level floor system is concrete, with radial beams primarily 18x44 and 20x42, and longitudinal beams are 16x24 with few major exceptions. A combination of steel and concrete is used in the third and fourth floor systems. The radial concrete beams as either 20x56 towards the inner area of the building and 18x44 in the outer area. There are four rows of longitudinal columns consisting of 24x56, 20x36, and 20x44 beams. All radial steel beams are 60 psi W36x135 and smaller W14x22 both 14' o.c. The longitudinal beams on the outer edge are W12x19. 45k/ft tendons are located between column lines C and E for the entire length of the building. Steel columns range in size from W14 to W30 of varying strengths.
Concrete shear walls are typically normal weight concrete wit f'c = 5000psi and are 1' thick. Typical reinforcement is #4@12. The Pod structural system is all steel. Beams range from W8x15 to W14x 53 and HSS 5x5x5/8 to HHS 10x5x5/8. There are four cantilevers in each pod roof. The auditorium has 2' thick concrete walls. For the tier construction, 1-1/2" MD + 2-1/2" concrete supported on 8" thick reinforced block wall is used. The four mechanical shafts are made with 9" thick concrete walls on the third level. On the fourth 8x8x3/8 tubular steel with HHS 8x8x1/2 columns are added.
Fire Protection
Information has been requested.
Plumbing
All labs are services with the following water systems: " Reverse Osmosis Water Supply and Return " Lab Waste " Lab Waste Vent " Tramp Primer Water " Cold Water " Hot Water " Lab Cold Water " Lab Air Pipe " Lab Vacuum " Emergency Water " Carbon Dioxide " Nitrogen and Liquid Nitrogen " Natural Gas There is an animal watering system located on the first and second floors. More information has been requested on this topic. Natural gas is provided by Washington Gas by 8" service pipes on the first floor. Four boilers are fired by a total of 218,200 CFH provided by 4" ? pipes. Natural gas is also pumped through 6" ? (8630 CFH) pipes to direct fired AHUs, kitchens and laboratories. More information has been requested.
Telecommunications
The Landscape Building has a EIA/TA 568-B compliant cabling system to support high speed data applications up to and in excess of 1000Mbs including IEEE system standards+ based on TPDDI, Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet and ATM. Each office pod has raised access floor for the routing of cables. There are two category 6 4-pair cables to each telecommunications outlet at each workstation in the office spaces. More information has been requested.
Acoustics
HHMI specified three spaces types that have required NC ratings. Auditoriums need to be NC-25 and seminar rooms need to be NC-30. This is achieved by 1" thick internal acoustical lining on all low pressure ductwork (full extent downstream of terminal unit) and ½" thick internal acoustical lining on all diffuser plenums. Additionally, all ductwork in and around the space has been lined with dry wall. Conference rooms and private offices are required to be NC-35. This ductwork has 1" this internal acoustical lining, and either a) if less than 1200CFM, there is a minimum distance of 10 FT between downstream outlet of terminal unit and each diffuser or b) if greater than or equal to 1200 CFM, there is a minimum distance of 15 FT. More information has been requested.
Transportation
There are 6 standard elevators for human transport and one clean elevator and 1one dirty elevator for substances and animals. There is also a freight elevator. The building is divided into three equal sections by two feature staircases that go from ground level to the root-top terrace. In addition there are five service stairwells throughout the building. On the third floor there is a 300 car parking garage behind the lab spaces.
More information has been requested.
Special Systems
More information has been requested.