The new $31.5M, 139,000 SF Virginia Bioinformatics Institute is a teaching, classroom, and laboratory research facility at Virginia Tech which stretches along the intersection of Washington Street and Duck Pond Drive on Virginia Tech’s campus. Hurt & Proffitt jointly worked with Calloway Johnson Moore and West Architects throughout the duration of this project.
This three-floor building is the university’s main facility for its research in the area of human genomics. The facility has bioinformatics research elements representing both biological and computational research. The labs support research in biotechnology, bioinformatics, environmental science, health technologies and functional genomics. The facility will utilize a three level entry atrium, a multi-level linear atrium through the two floors of research lab spaces, a staggered building floor-plate and service oriented intersections (coffee areas, small open conference areas with networked computer stations, etc.).
Hurt & Proffitt provided all surveying (topo, boundary, and construction), site engineering, stormwater management, and utility design.