Emory University, Eye Center and Clinic Addition, Atlanta, Georgia

The goal of the project design was two buildings to be tied together by a central atrium. The project is a winner of the National ASHRAE Energy Design award. The 213,000 s.f. building houses the Eye Center and additional clinical, surgical and research space for the School of Medicine at Emory University.

The facility was designed as two buildings, connected by a common five-story atrium, giving identity to each facility and designed to enable physician–scientists to integrate clinical work with basic eye research. BSL2 and BSL laboratories occupy 80,000 s.f. of the building. The clinic addition houses 20 laboratories (some P-3 Bio Containment) and clinical space for various medical specialties. The addition contains an outpatient surgery facility with six operating rooms and supportive preoperative and recovery spaces, exam and treatment facilities for plastic surgery and neurosurgery, and a dental clinic with 26 operatories for clinical practice, library, conference and teaching space. Major design considerations were made to incorporate shading devices, day lighting techniques and many others to lower operating cost of the facility by at lease 35% from similar projects.