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KINGS COLLEGE
LIFE SCIENCE BUILDING
Wilkes-Barre, PA
Project
Manager: Joel K. Sims, AIA
Project Cost: $6,400,000
Completion: 1994
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Client:
Kings
College
133 North River Street
Wilkes-Barre, PA 18711
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A new 33,000 square foot, five story addition was designed
for the Kings College Life Science Building. The new
addition contains three floors for the biology and psychology
departments, the molecular biology program and the neuroscience
program. A lobby and animal storage suite is located
on the lower level. A greenhouse and mechanical room
are located on the fifth floor.
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Equipment incorporated into this building
includes electron microscopes, autoclaves,
centrifuges, growth chambers, water polishing
stations, fume hoods and 4 degree Celsius
environmental chambers. The building exterior
consists of buff-colored brick with limestone
banding to compliment the adjacent campus
buildings.c
ampus buildings. |
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The
glass front façade met the owner’s
unique request to create a prominent façade
on a main street without having an entrance
from the front. The rear of the building
was designed with a student entry that
is accessible from the main campus. |
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Sixteen
(16) variable air volume fume hoods were
provided in the facility to accommodate
a growing science program. Based on the
results of a dispersion analysis, two 24
foot high vent stacks project from the roof
of the building to safely exhaust chemical
effluent.
Project completed while Joel Sims was at
Quad Three. Group |
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