Higher Education
University of Kansas Multidisciplinary Research Building
Lawrence, KS
Client: Kansas University Endowment Association
Architect: Cannon Design, Gould Evans
Size: 112,955 SF
Completion: 2005
The University of Kansas Multidisciplinary Research Building is a 4-story, 110,000 SF facility on the University of Kansas West Campus. The building is divided into three research floors and a 15,000 SF mechanical central plant in the basement that supports potential future expansion of research facilities on the West Campus.
The first floor holds Class "100", Class "1000", and Class "10,000" clean rooms. The second floor houses bioinformatics lab space. The third floor is dedicated to laboratory space (BSL-3, BSL-2+ and BSL-2 laboratories). Multiple chemistry lab types were constructed including pharmaceutical chemistry labs, analytical chemistry labs, bio-geo chemistry labs, medicinal chemistry labs and biochemistry labs.