GSA National Wildlife Research Center
Invasive Species Research Building

Location	Fort Collins, Colorado
Client	GSA National Wildlife Research Center
Size	50,559
Cost	$17,650,000
Architect	Burkett Design, Inc. Denver, Colorado
Lab Design Consultant:	Earl Walls Associates San Diego, California

 

• 2 level steel structure with brick veneer
• 13 animal isolation room/labs
• 85% isolation room/labs, 15% office/labs
• 4 cubical animal rooms
• Treatment clinic
• Lab, necropsy room, radiology.
• Walk-in freezer and cooler
• 2nd Level is interstitial level for above room access and maintenance as well as mechanical penthouse.
• Extreme climate/humidity control between adjacent isolation rooms. Rooms designed with the flexibility to simulate living conditions from tropics to the artic.
• Daily room conditions change including light simulating the sun's motion, temperatures cooling at night and daily humidity cycles.
• Feeding, cleaning and testing systems without human - animal contact
• Design/Build/Finance/Lease back
• Existing occupied operational campus