UVA Life Sciences Annex and Snyder Building
UVA Life Sciences Annex and Snyder Building | Charlottesville, Virginia
The UVA Life Sciences Annex and Snyder Building project is located at the Fontaine Research Park, adjacent to the grounds of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA. The campus project site was surrounded by the Health Services Foundation, the University of Virginia Office of Development, a 50-bed Rehabilitation Hospital, two Medical Office Buildings, the Aurbach Medical Research Building, the CFA Institute and the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences Development Office. The lay down area, contractor parking and all construction activities were confined to the area between the existing Health Services Building and the Aurbach Medical Research Building.
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Due to the site conditions, DPR employed Lean construction techniques such as "just-in-time deliveries" and "prefabrication to avoid unnecessary storage requirements."
DPR completed this 121,500-sq.-ft., two-phase project for the University of Virginia Foundation. The first phase of this project included an 85,000-sq.-ft., four-story facility to house wet and dry lab space, an imaging suite, environmental rooms, office space, conference areas, and extensive mechanical and electrical infrastructure. The second phase, the Life Sciences Annex, was a new, mostly-underground, 36,500-sq.-ft. research facility and shell space for additional imaging facilities, including an electron microscopy suite and research cyclotron.
The building itself provides facilities for organogenesis, engineering and computer sciences/computational biology, molecular imaging and research in aging. This facility includes UVA School of Medicine’s newest radiology clinical imaging which includes two MRI machines, a PET/CT scanner and angiography lab, cages and rack washers, dark rooms and cold rooms. DPR purchased, installed all of the equipment except for the MRIs and had these rooms built out and ready three months ahead of schedule. The building promotes social and intellectual interaction and interdisciplinary innovation to catalyze the surfaces between disciplines.
DPR self-performed the concrete work, received a Zero Defects letter and finished 30 days before scheduled completion. The team managed the replacement of the main electrical feeder with Dominion VA power that services Fontaine Research Park. There were no lost time accidents on the job and DPR’s safety inspection database, SafetyNet, included over 47,688 observations to ensure outstanding safety deliverance.
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