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Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Bigelow Center for Ocean Health (COH), East Boothbay, Maine. Design: Perkins+Will. |
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Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Bigelow Center for Ocean Health (COH), East Boothbay, Maine.
Budget: n.a.
Size: 16,600 ft2 (plus 1,200-ft2 shore facility).
Project team: Perkins+Will, Boston (architects); WBRC Architects-Engineers, Portland, Maine (MEP and structural engineer); Sebago Technics, Portland (civil engineer);
Terrence J. Dewan & Associates, Yarmouth, Maine (landscape architect); Consigli Construction Co Inc., Portland, Maine (construction manager).
Completion date: Spring 2012.
Description: The Center for Ocean Health (COH) now starting construction, is the third of three science wings being constructed on Bigelow Laboratory’s new 60,000-ft2 Ocean Science and Education Campus in East Boothbay. The first wing, the Bigelow Center for Blue Biotechnology, was funded in part by the State of Maine Technology Asset Fund and includes an industrial collaboration and technology transfer laboratory, the Single Cell Genomics Center, the MacIsaac Facility for Aquatic Cytometry, and the National Center for Marine Algae and Microbiota. The second wing houses the Center for Ocean Biogeochemistry and Climate Change and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation. The three wings are joined by a "commons" that provides circulation connectivity and will house seminars, education programs, poster sessions and so on. The COH wing is funded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and will support three key facility components. The 16,600-ft2 main building provides researcher offices and a variety of laboratories and core facilities including "flowing seawater" and "algae grow-up" capabilities, as well as a large "mesocosm lab" for research on ocean microorganisms in controlled environments. A 1,200-ft2 Shore Facility will house seawater pumping and filtration systems that supply seawater to the main building. The Shore Facility will also house dive operations and provide meeting space. The third COH component is a pier and dock, which will accommodate a variety of research vessels capable of local, coastal and deep-water research operations. Bigelow Laboratory’s new campus replaces the leased facilities that it has occupied since its founding in 1974.
Contact: Gary Shaw, AIA, LEED AP, Perkins+Will, gary.shaw@perkinswill.com.
