When contractors complete the finishing touches on the Georgia Institute of Technology's $89-million Engineered Biosystems Building (EBB) this spring, the five-story, 218,880-sq-ft LEED Platinum laboratory will go above and beyond just joining the university's portfolio of high-performing, high-sustainability facilities.
Every element, from rooftop photovoltaic panels to the underground cisterns for recycling gray water, is designed to facilitate what Georgia Tech hopes will be a new paradigm for biomedical research: shared laboratory and communal spaces that foster more collaboration among faculty and students working across multiple disciplines.