The headquarters for Doheny Eye Institute, affiliated with UCLA Stein Eye Institute, is now open. Located at the former Avery Dennison campus, the new life science research center is dedicated to the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight. It also fulfills the community’s hopes for the cherished 7-acre campus, which had sat vacant for several years.
Life sciences are quickly becoming a powerful solution for empty workspaces across the US. However, offices aren’t built for the intricate needs of laboratories — highly sensitive to temperature, vibration and light, and often requiring special features like air balancing, biosafety cabinets, lasers and cold storage.
To solve this puzzle for the 40-year-old building, the institute brought on Abbott Construction early in the design process to innovate alongside Doheny’s researchers and leadership staff, construction manager CMPG and designer SWA Architects. Together they found solutions to create a vision research center.
The facility currently features several floors of dedicated research and laboratory space, plus an executive wing with c-suite conference room, reading library and a 220-seat conference center. The building offers a 360-degree views of the outside world. Plans are also underway to build out the first floor for the Doheny Eye Center UCLA, the patient care enterprise, to create a full vision sciences campus.
To learn more, visit https://www.abbottconstruction.com/projects/doheny-eye-institute/
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