Irvine

Biobank Translational Research Core Facility
Los Angeles, CA

This 19,000 SF addition houses the Biology Department’s teaching and research laboratories, and faculty offices.  The new core lab includes biospecimen collection and storage; dedicated research, pathology, and histology operations; electronic medical records access; chain of custody documentation; ethical and legal controls; quality management system; integrated informatics platform and tools for sample management, documentation.  Included within these amenities is the centralized biorepository and morphology core that supports the institution’s translational research goals.  The core adopts legacy specimens from elsewhere on campus and supports new prospective collection protocols.

 
“Max, Jim and the Ewing Cole Team were great to work with and they can be proud of what was accomplished. Each project was interesting & unique and EwingCole was instrumental in helping me deliver very successful projects to the Cedars-Sinai Research Department.”
Osvaldo Diaz Senior Architect
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
(Biobank and basement renovation projects)
 

Leslie & Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) Diabetes & Genetic Research Center
Duarte, CA

This new four-story building provides 45,000 SF of additional diabetes and genetic research laboratories.  A tri-party agreement between EwingCole, the City of Hope, and DPR Construction was used to complete the project in the form of an Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) contract.  The design was developed using a building information modeling software (BIM) to facilitate coordination among the various disciplines.  The project Achieved LEED Silver certification.

Amini Medical Science Laboratory
Duarte, CA

This project is a new 60,000 square foot transfusion medicine building.  The new three-story facility consolidates various transfusion medicine groups into one facility: donor and therapeutic apheresis; blood manufacturing; stem cell processing lab, donor recruitment; and a national marrow donor program.  Through sustainable design initiatives the project received LEED-NC Silver Certification.

Southern California Region Blood Center
Pomona, CA

The new 190,000 SF, $49M blood processing center and regional headquarters offices are built out on the Innovation Village Research Park on the campus of California State Polytechnic University.  As a two-story structure on a 15-acre site, it includes a donor center, a conference center, and expansion for National Testing Laboratories.  This project is the first of a 10-year strategic capital investment program that will build 13-new blood centers across the United States.

 
“The design of the Pomona facility has positively contributed to the fabric of our organization, to the community and to our outreach efforts. We are now positioned to serve the current and future needs of this region and our network across the country.”
Jeff Meyer
Sr. Dir. Finance and Business Planning
West Division
American Red Cross