OAHHS Fall/Winter 2018

21 Fall/Winter 2018 “The tremendous spirit of collaboration is one of the attributes that drew me to OHSU,” said OHSU President Danny Jacobs, MD, MPH, FACS. “This building represents the state legislature, the Governor, and the citizens of Oregon coming together with OHSU over a shared goal of transforming how we think about cancer. I am proud to celebrate this building and all that it represents today, and I am eager to see the scientific progress that will result from the innovative approach to attacking cancer.” The Knight Cancer Research Building team applied a process called integrated project delivery, or IPD, that optimized budget, timeline and resource efficiencies during the design and construction process. The IPD core team comprised members from OHSU working in close collaboration with representatives from the architecture firm SRG Partnership, Inc. and the construction joint venture team of McCarthy Building Companies, Inc., and Andersen Construction. The IPD process ensured the building was delivered on time and on budget. The building team prioritized the hiring of Oregon businesses for the project, including minority, women, and emerging small business contractors. Key building features include intellectual and social hubs; centralized, shared equipment and research core facilities; and an open laboratory design, all intended to foster collaborative work. The research labs are a balanced mix of wet labs, which use liquids, chemicals or drugs to conduct experiments, and dry labs, which use computers or computer- generated models in analyzing biological data. Each person will have access to daylight in a high-performance, environmentally sustainable workplace featuring materials that are toxin- and carcinogen-free. The building’s design and construction team anticipate a LEED Platinum certification. H