{"id":1004205281,"date":"2018-01-30T05:32:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T13:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004205281"},"modified":"2022-12-08T23:20:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T07:20:20","slug":"u-delaware-campus-to-become-home-to-discovery-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/u-delaware-campus-to-become-home-to-discovery-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"U Delaware to Become Home of Discovery Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Keith Loria<\/em><\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The Discovery Hub<\/p><\/div>\n

IMC Construction broke ground on the Discovery Hub, a new, $150 million research facility for Chemours. The center is being built on the University of Delaware\u2019s Science Technology and Advanced Research (STAR) Campus in Newark, Del.<\/p>\n

When completed, the facility will total 312,000 square feet on a 15-acre site in the southeast corner of the STAR campus, with new labs and offices for nearly 330 scientists, engineers and researchers who will be relocated from Chemours\u2019 New Castle County facilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a state-of-the-art, unique facility that is going to create a huge employment hub, it\u2019s going to be innovative for creating new projects, and it\u2019s going to be teamed up with the University of Delaware for employment,\u201d <\/em>Rob Cottone, IMC Construction\u2019s president & CEO, told Commercial Property Executive. \u201cIt will cause a boom for the construction industry and vendors who will be involved in bringing this facility to life.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

State-of-the-Art Project<\/h2>\n

The Discovery Hub will consist of more than 100 labs, 50 specialty rooms, cafes, conference rooms and 20 \u201chuddle\u201d rooms that will be utilized for small group meetings. According to Cottone, the facility will act as a pipeline between one of the best bio-engineering schools in the nation and a chemical industry leader, attracting some of the best minds in the field.<\/p>\n

The four-story building is expected to be finished by early 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe end-product of the building, being an innovation hub, lends great to IMC\u2019s philosophy about \u2018care for the environment, care for the future,\u2019 because some of the product they are putting out of this is environmentally sensitive,\u201d<\/em> Jerry Brandmueller, project manager for the project, told CPE<\/em>. \u201cA refrigerant that will go into air conditioning units that is not ozone depleting.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The project team also consists of architects\u00a0L2 Partridge, site engineers\u00a0Tetra Tech, mechanical\/electrical engineers RDK and structural engineers O\u2019Donnell & Naccarato.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s obviously hundreds upon hundreds of pieces of equipment, some of which has been patented and customized and are very unique for the work and products that Chemours\u2019 produces,\u201d <\/em>Cottone said. \u201cWhen you think of the duct work, the mechanical work and utilities that are needed to service all the equipment and labs that exist in the building, there will be thousands of miles of conduits for a variety of services. The coordination of the design and construction gets quite extensive when you have that kind of services.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

IMC Construction is utilizing its fully integrated computer modeling department that models equipment in a 4-D manner, so all designers and trades personnel can virtually in a meeting room build and evaluate the most efficient cost-effective manner of designing and installing different pieces of equipment and mechanical work.<\/p>\n

Award Winning Construction Company<\/strong><\/h2>\n

IMC Construction has also completed similar projects for the University of Pennsylvania, Endo Pharmaceuticals, Siemens Medical, AmerisourceBergen and other leaders in scientific inquiry.<\/p>\n

In May, IMC Construction appointed veteran healthcare construction professional<\/a> Arthur Brinkworth to the role of project director. IMC\u2019s health care portfolio includes completed medical projects for the\u00a0University of Pennsylvania Health System<\/a>, Penn Medicine, Main Line Health, Fox Chase Crozier-Keystone Cancer Partnership, Community Volunteers in Medicine and Phoenixville Hospital.<\/p>\n

A new survey by the Associated General Contractors of America and Sage Construction and Real Estate, revealed that the construction industry has high expectations for a successful year.<\/p>\n

Photo courtesy of\u00a0IMC Construction<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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