Skanska USA has been awarded a $68-million contract to complete the Virginia Tech Carilion Biomedical Research Addition, a 140,000-square-foot building on the Virginia Tech Carilion Health Sciences and Technology Campus in Roanoke, Virginia. This project, while contracted with Carilion Clinic, is a collaboration between Carilion Clinic and Virginia Tech. AECOM is the architect. The project is expected to be completed in February 2020.
The primary focus of the new four-story building is to provide state-of-the-art research facilities for enhanced biomedical research programs in five major thematic areas, including:
- Body device interfaces
- Brain health and disorders
- Cardiovascular science
- Infectious diseases and immunology
- Metabolism and obesity
The new building will house next-generation core instrumentation facilities including those for molecular, cellular and whole-body imaging and powerful computing facilities. Wet laboratories requiring direct ventilation and specialized piped utilities for water and various gases, MRI and CT scanning, high-resolution electron microscopy, necropsy and pathology will be added. There will be an atrium and multiple green roofs.
The expansion will be physically connected by an elevated walkway to the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Research Institute, previously constructed by Skanska and completed in 2010. That four-story, 152,850-square-foot building comprises a medical school, research institute and 52,000-square-feet of lower level structured parking.
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