Case Study

NCSU Plant Sciences Building

Pharma/Life Science

Project Overview

Building

NCSU Plant Sciences Building (Location: NCSU Centennial Campus, Raleigh, N.C.)

Project Type

New construction

Partners

DPR Construction

Description

185,000 square feet, five stories, multiple teaching and research laboratories, classrooms, offices, and a fifth-floor greenhouse. Opened to public April 2022.

Delivery Method

Design-Bid-Build

Duration

24 months

Budget

$19.8M+

Services

  • HVAC installation
  • Plumbing installation
  • Laboratory gas installation
  • Sterilizer and Autoclave installation

Capabilities

Project Highlights

  • The facility serves as home to NCSU Plant Sciences Department and is designed as a plant-based research laboratory.

  • State-of-the-art mechanical and plumbing systems offer superior energy efficiency and sustainability including energy recovery.

  • The HVAC and plumbing systems includes sixteen custom air handlers, Energy Recovery Unit, chilled beams, numerous hydronic pumps, hundreds of fixtures, water heaters, and storage tanks.

    Built a complete steam station over 60ft in length (125psi steam down to 50psi).

    There are four large and twelve small research laboratories with specialty systems that include thirty-five exhaust hoods, Phoenix Valves, autoclaves, and steam sterilizers. The laboratories make up 80,000 square feet of the facility.

  • SPC Mechanical used over 60,000 hours of labor to install miles of piping that make up the mechanical and plumbing systems.

  • 16,000 square feet of level BSL-2 and BSL-3 greenhouses located on fifth floor.