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Higher Education Design

University Of Madison Wisconsin Microbial Building

Location:
Madison, WI

Scope:
Provided architectural design services for new 330,000 sq. ft. Microbial Science Building

External Team:

C.D. Smith Construction Services, Inc.

Studio:

Higher Education Design

Internal Team:

University of Wisconsin – Madison, Microbial Sciences Building

Madison, WI

Plunkett Raysich Architects, LLP worked collaboratively with CO Architects, a nationally recognized architectural planning, programming, and design firm, to create a new 330,000 sq. ft. Microbial Science Building at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Throughout the project process PRA provided local representation for the client, expertise in the City’s permitting and entitlement process, and architectural design services.

The resulting 330,000 sq. ft. Microbial Sciences Building unites the instructional and research efforts of three departments – Bacteriology, Medical Microbiology and Immunology, and Food Microbiology and Toxicology – into one community. Unique building features include interdisciplinary laboratory facilities for 47 research groups (500 lab personnel), 11 instructional labs with approximately 360 student stations and support facilities, a Vivarium (animal facility), four levels of underground parking, and a large, state-of-the-art international symposium auditorium. The building also features nine BSL-3 labs, six BSL-3 Ag suites, and three general assignment classrooms.