Market
Louisiana Cancer Research Center
Project Details
TUTOR PERINI AFFILIATES
Roy Anderson Corp
General Contractor
Contract Amount: $77 Million
OWNER
Louisiana Cancer Research Consortium
LOCATION
New Orleans, LA
ARCHITECT
RMJM Hillier Architects
SIZE
260,000 Square Feet
COMPLETION
2016
Project Description
The 10-story, 260,000-square-foot facility is a cancer research facility with a pile-supported, poured-in-place concrete parking garage and a structural steel frame research facility. The exterior façade consists of a glass curtain wall system, aluminum composite metal panels, and architectural precast concrete panels. Because the cancer center is home to very sensitive samples and experiments, the construction team went to great lengths to make sure outside vibrations did not affect them. Any vibration, even from a car in the garage seven stories below, could jeopardize research results. For this reason, the design and construction execution of this project incorporated innovative design and construction techniques to include the use of Building Information Modeling for the extensive coordination necessary on a building of this complexity.