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City of Phoenix, Ariz., Health Sciences Education Building. Design: CO Architects/Ayers Saint Gross. Image courtesy of CO Architects
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City of Phoenix, Ariz., Health Sciences Education Building.
Budget: $129 million.
Size: 268,000 ft2
Project team: CO Architects, Los Angeles (design and executive architect); Ayers Saint Gross, Tempe, Ariz. (associate architect and master planner); AEI Engineers, Phoenix (MEP engineer); John A. Martin & Associates, Los Angeles (structural engineer); Dibble Engineering, Phoenix (civil engineer); JJR, Phoenix (landscape architect); Transsolar Energietechnik GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany (climate engineer); The Sextant Group, Phoenix (audiovisual consultant); DPR-Sundt, a Joint Venture of DPR Construction and Sundt Construction Inc., Phoenix (preconstruction/CM at risk contractor).
Completion date: 3Q2012.
Description: Teaching and research facility will be used by the Univ. of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix; the UA College of Pharmacy; the UA Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health; and the Northern Arizona Univ. College of Health and Human Services. The interdisciplinary building is pursuing LEED Silver certification, incorporating advanced daylighting techniques and other green strategies. Desert forms and regional materials characterize the design. The project won a 2010 NEXT LA Citation Award, given to on-the-boards projects by the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
Contact: Julie D. Taylor, for CO Architects, Julie@taylor-pr.com.
