Richard and Barbara Silverman Hall for Molecular Therapeutics & Diagnostics
Project Status: COMPLETED
Construction Start: June 2007
Completion: Fall 2009
Project Description & Statistics
The building site is located at 2170 Campus Drive, connected to the Center For Nanofabrication And Molecular Self Assembly and the Arthur & Gladys Pancoe Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Life Sciences Pavilion.
- Each of the five floors
are programmed with Laboratories and Student Offices. - Faculty (PI’s) Offices reside on 3rd and 4th Floors.
- Four stories above grade plus Mechanical Penthouse.
- The one floor below grade has
a NMR Suite, Coreand Laser Labs. - Ground Floor houses an Imaging Suite and Conference Rooms.
- The building is approximately 80 feet tall and 21 feet below grade.
Building Population
Approximately 245 persons total (PI's, Researchers and Staff)
Gross | Net | Net-to-Gross Ratio | |
Basement | 22,849 | 13,482 | 0.59 |
Ground Floor | 24,943 | 15,167 | 0.61 |
2nd Floor | 25,263 | 15,322 | 0.61 |
3rd Floor | 29,125 | 18,051 | 0.62 |
4th Floor | 29,125 | 18,051 | 0.62 |
Penthouse | 17,786 | 14,139 | 0.79 |
Building Total | 149,091 | 94,212 | 0.63 |
Project Cost: ~$63,000,000 (base building)
Project Team
Project Management
Ron Nayler, Associate Vice President for Facilities
Bonnie Humphrey, Director Facilities Design & Construction
Quentin Bruhn, Senior Project Manager
Jay Seay, Project Engineer
Architect, Engineers & Consultants
Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership (Los Angeles, CA), Architect
Research Facilities Design (San Diego, CA), Laboratory Planners
Affiliated Engineers, Inc. (Madison, WI), Engineers
Thornton-Tomasetti Group (Chicago, IL), Structural Engineer
Primera Engineers, Ltd. (Chicago, IL), Civil Engineer
Wolff Landscape Architecture, Inc. (Chicago, IL), Landscape Design
Turner Construction Company (Chicago, IL), Pre-Construction Consultant
E Cube, Inc. (Boulder, CO), Commissioning
HJKessler Associates, Inc. (Chicago, IL), LEED Consultant
Davis Langdon (Santa Monica, CA), Cost Estimator
Cermak Peterka Peterson (Ft. Collins, CO), Wind Dispersion
Colin Gordon and Associates (San Bruno, CA), Vibration Consultant
General Contractor
Turner Construction
Awards & Certifications
The building has received gold-level certification from the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System®. Read more about Silverman Hall's LEED certification in a Northwestern University Newscenter article.
Contact Information
All questions or complaints should be directed to:
Quentin Bruhn, Senior Project Manager
Northwestern University
Facilities Design & Construction
2020 Ridge Avenue, Suite 250
Evanston, IL 60208
Phone: 847-491-3677
Fax: 847-491-3869
qlb945@northwestern.edu