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Seattle's Biotech Buildings Require Unique DesignAccording to biotech building developers, construction standards for these specialized buildings for biotech are much different than building an ordinary office building.
These research facilities require greater floor strength, higher ceiling heights for mechanical equipment and greater demands for electricity, water and air.
As much of the research requires sensitive instruments, biotech buildings must be resistant to vibration from passing traffic or other sources.
Life-sciences buildings must have up to twice the usual floor heights for plumbing, electricity and ventilation, and require 100 percent outside air, rather than recycling air multiple times.
These stringent requirements make the design and construction of a biotech building -- or even converting a standard office building for research purposes -- a challenging task, but one that brings its own rewards.
"A biotech building's complexity offers many challenges as they have tremendous density of systems," said Jim Goldman, project manager for Turner Construction Co.
"By its very nature, a project like this is always special and different."
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