Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Building 401 Shell Space Build-Out at Fort Collins
Daniel Smith, Smith Carter
Matt Meyer, JE Dunn Construction
The objective of the presentation is to define the approach to shaping an integrated design to include an explanation of its benefits, challenges, and strategies. The presenters will identify effective sustainable design strategies and efficiently explain the effectiveness of our execution process for managing the LEED® certification process.
The approach to the design process and project delivery methods will be highlighted through the description of the programming process, designing, contracting, constructing, and equipment/laboratory activation at the CDC Fort Collins campus. The process will be used to illustrate the highly unique features, including the scientific, bio-safety, and operational considerations; protocols; and programs being developed to manage and maintain the facility.
The primary goal of the CDC Fourth Floor fit-out will be to construct laboratory, office, and support spaces that support the scientific mission of the Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases.
Smith Carter is an internationally recognized leader in laboratory design and is providing space planning and complete laboratory design services. The firm designed and commissioned unique human and animal infectious disease diagnostic and research facilities, including BSL4/3Ag/2 facilities for both large and small animals. Smith Carter has extensive experience with government institutions including CDC, Department of Homeland Security, National Institutes of Health National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, United States Department of Agriculture, and the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, as well as private-sector organizations, including University of Texas Medical Branch and Boston University.
JE Dunn Construction, a national leader in construction of complex laboratory facilities, is responsible for all aspects of performance of the design-build team. The life science/laboratory sector is a key focus.
Collaboratively, Smith Carter and JE Dunn Construction are committed to sustainable design principles for the design and build of the CDC Building 401 Build-Out at Fort Collins. Collaboratively, Smith Carter and JE Dunn Construction have been actively using building information modeling (BIM) in laboratory, vivarium, and educational design projects since 2005.
The BIM software and database constitutes the team's newest tool for creating more accurate information earlier to generate better design solutions and allow continuous coordination through to the end of construction.
This presentation will illustrate principles of collaborative design/build approach to the integration of highly complex laboratories in a high-containment environment.
Biographies:
Daniel Smith, LEED AP, is an architect and project manager with more than 22 years of experience. He has been involved with several complex high-containment building projects and has acquired a keen knowledge of bioscience research standards, code compliance, and containment technical building systems to aid in the cross coordination of architectural and engineering disciplines. He has managed this collaborative process, assisting in the successful interpretation of the design for client projects such as the National Institutes of Health–Rocky Mountain Laboratory Integrated Research Facility; the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease Research Facility on the Fort Detrick Campus in Maryland; and CDC in Fort Collins, Colorado. Mr. Smith has also assisted in the development and management of many prestigious academic research institution projects focusing on high-containment diagnostics and research in bio-defense and infectious disease research including Johns Hopkins University, the University of Tennessee Regional Biocontainment Laboratory, the University of Georgia, and the Department of Homeland Security Plum Island Animal Disease Center. Mr. Smith was selected to present on the subject of Operation and Maintenance of Bio-containment laboratories at the Tradelines 2007 Conference and has been instrumental in writing the bio-containment chapter for BSL3 and BSL4 laboratories in the National Institutes of Health's (DHHS/NIH) Design Requirements Manual, which will be published in the coming year.
Matt Meyer, LEED AP, is a senior project manager for JE Dunn Construction's Life Sciences Group in Denver, Colorado. Mr. Meyer holds a Bachelor of Science degree in construction management from Colorado State University and has more than 23 years of experience and is responsible for the planning, cost estimating, construction, and commissioning of life science, laboratory, and hospital facilities for entities such as Sandia National Laboratory (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Amgen (Longmont, Colorado); CDC (Fort Collins, Colorado); and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Areas of specialty include health care, research laboratories, biotechnology, BSL2, and BSL3. Mr. Meyer is a current member of the International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineers.