Life Science Center Completed

Hanover, NH — BOND (Bond Brothers) of Everett Mass., announced the completion of the new Dartmouth College Class of 1978 Life Science Center in Hanover.
The 174,000sf laboratory and academic building includes 30 wet labs with support space, 30 faculty offices, six post doc offices, conference rooms and lounges. The building also includes a 200 seat theater classroom, 80 seat amphitheater classroom, teaching labs and flexible classrooms with an interior glass stair tower. The exterior is made up of brick, copper and a granite base.
The $93 million project is expected to achieve LEED Platinum status. Its sustainable features include a 6000sf greenhouse and storm water management system that is expected to reuse one million gallons of rainwater annually, as well as a state of the art energy management system. The building is viewed by the College to be a national model of sustainability using less than a half of the energy of the best performing labs in the country.
The sustainability aspects carried over into the design of the project as well with an unusual combination of brick, granite and copper used within the building’s envelope which will greatly diminish thermal exposure.
BOND implemented a customized quality control process along with a performance mockup targeted at the envelope installation to ensure that these materials provided weather tightness with a longer term goal of ensuring that the sustainability model was upheld.