1. Janelia Facts and Features - Landscape Building – July 2006
Procurement
• Design: Charette Competition with World class
signature architects
• Contractor selection: Negotiated, experienced-based
qualifications with depth of staff and proven ability to
manage large complex fast-track projects within budget
and schedule
• Contract type: Design-build Guaranteed Maximum
Price based on schematic design drawings and
specifications
Comparable Footprints
• Landscape Building 500,000 sf (1000’ x 200’) including
garage
• Dulles Airport Main Terminal 240,000 sf (1200’ x 200’)
• Flight deck of JFK Aircraft Carrier 265,000 sf (1052’ x
252’)
• Stood on end the building would equal the height of an
85 story building and would exceed the height of the
Eiffel Tower (986’)
• Length is equal to three football fields
Total Project Construction Man-hours
• 3,000,000 hours
Design Hours
• 175,000 Architect
• 135,000 Design Consultants
• 310,000 Total
Schedule
• Land Acquisition Dec 2000
• Assemble Design, Management, and Construction
teams 2001
• Project Definition, Site design for Rough Grading
permit, and budgeting 2002
• GMP Contract Nov 2002
• Groundbreaking Nov 2002
• Substantial Completion of Construction Documents
June 2004
• Concrete start June 2003
• Concrete Complete September 2004
• Enclosure Start September 2004
• Substantially weather-tight August 2005
• Phased Occupancy May – August 2006
Concrete
• 66,000 cubic yards of Concrete, more concrete than in
one tower of the Petronas Towers
• 4700 tons of Reinforcing steel
• 4 tower cranes and two on site batch plants utilized at
height of concrete placement
Stone Flooring
• First floor stone: Italian Basaltina
• Same material as used in the Vatican
• Stone treads for Feature Stairs black granite from India
Site
• 681 acres, wooded and meadows
• 60 acres developed
• Stone excavation 200,000 cys
• Stone crushed for backfill and road beds
• Total Excavated material 400,00 cys
• Total stone crushed on site 110,000 cys
• 2 acre wetland migration area
• Public road improvements: Dual lane Riverside
Parkway, Intersection improvements at Route 7
• Preservation of 17 acre home lot and National Historic
Register Manor House and associated historic vista
• Excess excavated earth and stone used on site to create
naturalized meadows
Structure
• Hybrid steel frame and reinforced concrete both mild
steel and post-tension reinforcement to allow for clear
span requirements and necessary low floor vibration
characteristics for labs
Steel
• 90’ Clear span girder fro column free labs
• Girder 54” deep, 30” wide, Clear Span for Column-free
Labs
• Cross Section comparable to highway bridge sections
• 3200 Total tons
Mechanical
• Central plant (100,000 sf on two levels) with in
building footprint
• 3- gas fired Steam Boilers (2- 1500 hp, 1- 900 hp)
• 5- Cooling towers at 1200 tons each
• 15- Air handling units at 45,000 cfm
Glass
• One of largest structurally glazed system in US
(147,000 sf)
• The largest as far as uniqueness and at the outer limits
of production capabilities of glass
• Installation time: 85,000 man hours
• Glass Manufactured in Belgium
• Assembled Albany, New York, and New Brunswick,
Canada
• 60 custom dyes for aluminum extrusions
• Glass Doors from Singapore, assembled California
• Systems underwent one year of independent testing of
performance and design validation

2. Janelia Facts and Features - Landscape Building – July 2006
Electrical
• 3- 35 kvA substations
• Emergency power: 3- 2000 kw gensets with catalytic
converters powers all critical equipment and telecom
switches, lab lighting, and lab convenience outlets
• Street lighting: Custom Designed LEDs Manufactured
in Krakow Poland
Millwork/Wood Flooring
• Hand selected Maple veneers from Michigan trees
• Veneers laid up in Indiana, assembled into finished
work Providence, RI
• End grain Hornbeam flooring from France; also
mesquite from Texas
Site Trees 100% Recycled
• Stumps and softwoods ground into mulch
• Small trees and limbs chipped for waste-to-energy plant
• 35,000 Board feet of Hardwoods milled into random
width plank flooring for Project hotel and townhouses
Landscape
• Low impact drought resistant plant materials and low
impact design strategy
• 180,000 sf Green roof with cell gardens (second largest
green roof in US)
• Two manmade lakes fed by roof drainage, ground run-
off, spring and deep well, used for irrigation and
wildlife habitat; preservation of third farm pond as
amenity along new public roadway
Scientific Equipment Areas
• 30’ clear height by 13,00 sf for large equipment, with
isolated slab construction
• Additional 30,000 sf of non-programmed space for
electron microscopy, and other TBD scientific uses
Labs
• 16 each 9,600 sf Lab pods
• Custom design, flexible and interchangeable lab bench
system, UL listed
• All areas quickly converted from bench system to
computer labs or robotic uses
• Open design concept to facilitate interaction and
collaboration between researchers
• All labs have unobstructed view of cell gardens and
north facing glass walls for natural light
• Column free 90’ clear span open plan
• Finished ceiling heights 12 feet
Data Center
• 10,000 sf (5,000 sf initial fitup)
• 142 tons AC
• 100 watts/sf electric basis of design
Public Areas/Conference Center
• Full conference facilities including library, 250 seat
auditorium, 125 seat seminar room
• Full commercial kitchen
• Dining facility ability to seat 200
• 2 monumental structural glass and stainless steel
staircases to enhance circulation between lower Public
floor and conference facilities and two upper floors of
labs
Vivarium
• 8,000 sf
• Swedish manufactured Robotic cagewash system
Communications
• Two independent access points to offsite facilities for
redundancy
• Hardwired and wireless systems in building for
tele/data/network
• Voice-over IP technology for telephone system
• One million LF of cabling both fiber and copper
Administration
• 2850 Total Drawings
• 7100 Pages of Specifications
• 2300 Total Submittals
• 5000 Total RFI’s Projected
• 1350 Total PCO’s Projected
Countries Represented
• Sweden – Robotics
• India – Stone Stair Treads @ Feature Stair
• Italy – Basaltina Stone Flooring on First Floor of the
Landscape Building, Stone Countertops & Seat Fabric
In the Auditorium & Seminar Room
• Belgium – Auditorium Curtain & Glass Fabrication
• Canada – Feature Stair Glass & Stainless Steel
Handrails (Ornamental Metals)
• Poland – Custom Light Fixtures
• England – Project Screens
• Argentina – Roof Railing, Stainless Steel Security
Bollards, Exterior & Interior Benches & Misc. Stainless
Steel Ornamental Metals
• Denmark – Day Care Playground Equipment
• Austria – Glass
• Finland – Glass
• China – Granite Tops
• France – Hornbeam Wood Flooring Processed in
France, Trees Grown in Germany
• Germany – Plumbing Fixtures, Blasi Doors @ Main
Entrance of Landscape Building, Green Roof Grass
Seed & Roof Cell Drains
• Dubai - Furniture