Stowers Institute for Medical Research Support Facility BioMed Valley & Vivarium

The vivarium housed up to 12,000 cages with the ability to nearly double its capacity. The primary function of the vivarium is to house a core colony. Using modular construction, the animal rooms were factory constructed using multi-trade prefabrication and transported to the site. The project also included a new incubator scale lab for BioMed Valley Discoveries (BVD), a research-and-development organization that develops basic biomedical discoveries into applications to improve human health.

MECHANICAL HIGHLIGHTS

• modular construction
• air handling units with 100% outside air heat recovery
• VHP system served by electric steam boiler
• SEMCO custom air handling unit with variable speed enthalpy recovery wheel
• lab exhaust fan and humidification
• constant volume, pressure independent, air control valves and exhaust systems
• central utility plant (CUP) which is fully redundant
• 2 275-ton chillers
• 2 6,000-ton boilers
• complex emergency generator