Colket Translational Research Building
Website: Ballinger.
Location: 3550 Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Client: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Usage: Istitutional
Height: Expandable to 20+ floors
Architect: Ballinger
Mechanical/Electrical Engineers: Bard, Rao & Athanas Consulting Engineers, LLC
Structural Engineers: LeMessurier Consultants
Civil Engineers: Pennoni Associates, Inc.
Laboratory Planner: GPR Planners Collaborative, Inc.
Construction Team: Turner Construction Co.
Cost: $235,000,000
Completion: 2009
Comments:
According to one
source,
"To accommodate future growth, there is potential to expand the building to
22 stories."
However the lead architect's
website says the facility is projected to be 29 stories,
"The new research tower for The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is borne out of a Master Plan to create a unique, identifiable South campus that expands research, clinical research, ambulatory care, office and support facilities. Having participated in the planning process, Ballinger is now implementing the Master Plan's research initiative - the design of 1,000,000 SF of basic research and biomedical research, supported by a 275,000 SF vivarium. The
29-story facility occupies a prominent urban site across from the Main Campus and will project an image worthy of the nation's #1 Children's Hospital. The tower will be connected to neighboring Abramson Research Center to encourage colleague interaction within a secure scientific research area."
This tower is part of Children's Hospital's 10-year, $1,500,000,000 expansion program. Construction has already begun.
Renderings: Courtesy of Ballinger Architects
Groundbreaking Ceremony; June 2006: Photo courtesy of Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia
From left to right,
Stephen B. Burke, Children's Hospital trustee;
Philip R. Johnson, MD, chief scientific officer;
Tristram C. Colket, Jr., trustee;
Emma Cullen, Colket granddaughter;
Ruth M. Colket, trustee;
Steven M. Altschuler, MD, Children's Hospital president and CEO; and
Honorable Ed G. Rendell, Governor of Pennsylvania