Boston, MA- Walsh Brothers, Incorporated, a Boston-based construction management firm, with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) representatives, staff, researchers and designer, Miller Dyer Spears recently took part in a ribbon cutting ceremony celebrating the unveiling of DFCI’s 4th Floor Chemistry and Biology Research fit-out.
The 10,200sf research fit-out represents the final step in the multi-phased gut renovation of the 1930’s building, located in Boston’s Marine Industrial Park on Drydock Avenue in South Boston.
The relocation of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s critical research activities out of the congested LMA to the BMIP has been underway since 2005. The entire 45,000sf complex renovation has been overseen by Walsh Brothers.
The Harbor Campus location affords researchers cutting edge research space, equipment, and technology coupled with a quiet environment that has sweeping views of the Boston Harbor and skyline. Additionally, the Harbor campus frees up space in the congested LMA for critical patient care.
In 2006, Walsh Brothers began the renovation of the fourth floor of the Harbor Campus which housed medical records, cancer registration offices, cryogenic tissue repository, and a materials management center.
After completing the Lurie Family Imaging Center on the first floor of the Harbor Campus in 2009 Walsh Brothers turned its attention back to the fourth floor to begin state-of-the-art cancer research wet and dry laboratories which will serve as home to some of the brightest minds of cancer research.
The laboratory features over 30 flexible lab benches, liquid nitrogen freezers, cancer bioscope, bottle washing station, DNA sequencing machines, robotics, MOTT fume hoods, autoclave, closed histology lab, BL-2 tissue lab, and a chemical waste room.