ARIADPharmaceuticals, Inc.

Construction

                ARIAD Pharmaceuticals was designed using a design-bid-build method with the cost of construction coming to 36 million dollars. Construction of the 250,000 square foot structure will begin in the fall of 2015 and is anticipated to finish in the summer of 2016.

 

Structural

The structure within ARIAD contains two bays of concentric braced framing. There are typical spread footings throughout and use of large mat slabs. The substructure is composed of 6” concrete slab on grade with nonstructural under-slab venting by geotechnical engineering. Beams will span in the long direction while girders will span in the short direction. The typical structural bay will be 34’-6” by 36’-5”. There are two different flooring systems used throughout ARIAD. The first flooring system will be a typical metal composite deck composed of 4 ½” normal weight concrete on 3” 18 gage galvanized metal deck, with a total thickness of the deck coming to 7 ½”.  The second flooring system contains two different slab types - one of which is a 16” cast in place concrete slab, while the other is a 8” cast in place concrete slab. The brace framing system is lateral, while the gravity framing system is composite steel.

 

Lighting

                Fluorescent and LED lighting will be provided for general illumination throughout the facility. Lighting fixtures will be tandem wired where recessed and located within 10 feet of an adjacent fixture, pendant and surface mounted fixtures in a row. All lighting fixtures will be complete with T8 or T5 lamps, electronic ballast, drivers, jumper cabling, hangers, lenses, etc. There is a set correlated color temperature of 3500K and a color-rendering index of 80. All lighting levels will conform to the Illuminating Engineering Society’s recommendations.

 

Electrical

                Under Normal Power conditions, ARIAD will utilize 1.5 VA/SF for lighting, 4.0 VA/SF for power within the office space, 30.0 VA/SF for laboratory panels and 15.0 VA/SF for floor distribution panels in regards to laboratory power, 2.0 VA/SF for power of all other areas, and finally 8.0 to 10.0 VA/SF for plumbing and HVAC equipment.

                The existing base building has 4000A, 480/277 volt, 3 phase, 4 wire tenant floor riser busway located in each on-floor electrical room that will serve the tenant on-floor normal power distribution throughout the building.

                The existing base building 480/277V normal power is distributed from the main electric service equipment in the basement, to each floor via vertical busway. Each laboratory floor shall have a core electric closet, each with two step-down transformers and distribution panels for 208/120V equipment.

The existing building 2,000 kW diesel engine driven generator set shall supply electrical power to the optional standby essential laboratory, vivarium and building power equipment in the event of loss of normal power.

 

Transportation

                ARIAD can be accessed through its main lobby, which sits inside of the atrium on the east side of the building. There is a loading dock in the rear of the building (north side) as well as a number of additional entryways. Two staircases are found within ARIAD for occupant use, one in the north west of the building and one in the north east side of the building. There is one service elevator centrally located.

 

Telecommunications

                All products shall meet applicable NEMA, ANSI, and UL, FCC, and IEEE Standards. The telecommunication service is fed into the basement through an existing manhole. It is then split into two zones consisting of a Main Distribution Frame (MDF) in the basement and multiple Intermediate Distribution Frames (IDF) throughout the building. Each floor has an east and west IDF room to provide the telecommunication service to its respective zone.  IDF rooms receive data from a 48 strand 50/125 micron armored multimode fiber optic cable and a 48 strand singlemode fiber optic cable. Data is distributed horizontally through (7) 4” conduit sleeves.

 

Fire Protection

                There will be manual pull stations provided at each floors egress. The fire alarm signaling system will be in accordance with all applicable codes and standards including the latest editions of NFPA 72, 90A, 92A, and 101, as well as applicable International Building Code (2009) with Massachusetts Amendments and Massachusetts State and Local Fire Regulations. Occupant notification shall consist of audio/visual signaling in accordance with NFPA 72 and IBC.  Audible signals include pre-recorded voice messages, evacuation tone, and manual voice paging via microphone. Visual notification appliances will be provided in all public and common use areas also in accordance with NFPA 72 and IBC.

                Sprinkler systems are provided throughout ARIAD and are hydraulically calculated to provide densities with hose allowances as required. Offices, lounges, conference rooms, and other Light Hazard occupancy to be at 0.10 gallons per minute per square foot with a 100 GPM hose allowance. Vivarium spaces will be designed for Ordinary Hazard (Group I) occupancy at 0.15 gallons per minute per square foot with a hose allowance of 250 GPM. Laboratories, mechanical rooms, and other areas with chemicals/gases will be designed for Ordinary Hazard (Group II) occupancy at 0.20 gallons per minute per square foot with a hose allowance of 250 GPM. Chemical storage rooms with flammable liquids stored in the rooms will be designed for Extra Hazard (Group II) occupancy at 0.60 gallons per minute per square foot with a hose allowance of 750 GPM.

 

Mechanical

                The heating source for ARIAD is provided by the base building via (8) nominal 2.7 million BTU/hr output gas fired condensing boilers. There is an 8” hot water supply and return riser with 4” valved and capped hot water connections on each floor for tenant use. The hot water has a supply/return temperature of 140°F/120°F.

                The chilled water system is provided by two base building 622 ton electric centrifugal chillers on normal power. Chilled water system has two primary pumps and two secondary pumps. The base building also utilizes a chiller optimization program.

ARIAD is to provide a 200 ton electric centrifugal chiller with associated condenser water pump, primary chilled water pump, and secondary chilled water pumps on stand-by power. ARIAD is to also provide a 4” chilled water supply and return riser with 2 ½” take-offs on each floor, and a plate and frame heat exchanger for winter cooling.

The vivarium space within ARIAD is to be served from the vivarium AHU system with a cross tie into the base building supply air system as back-up. The laboratory spaces are to use fast acting venturi valves with an external sound attenuator, the supply air valves with hot water reheat coils. The office spaces will exhaust to the above ceiling plenum. The offices will have variable volume, parallel flow fan powered terminal boxes with EC motors while meeting and conference rooms will have individual variable volume air terminal boxes with reheat coils.