Laboratories Introduction
Gregg Wies & Gardner Architects (GWG) designs laboratory environments which recognize the changes that technology continuously brings to scientific research in medicine and science. Our laboratories are built around cores carrying mechanical, electrical and plumbing chases with changeable work surfaces which can be adapted to uses and users as the grants which support the work of primary investigators change. We place special emphasis on meeting the highest standards for environmental safety in the design of laboratories.
Many of these laboratories are embedded in other institutional facilities, such as teaching laboratories on the secondary and university levels, while others are specific research laboratories, designed to support a particular effort of a primary investigator, but generic enough to be adaptable to the changing needs of researchers as science leads in different directions and grants fund new research. GWG has completed over 30 research laboratories in medical school settings and for the Veterans Administration.
The experience base of GWG in the laboratory field is extensive, both in the number of completed projects and the types of projects addressed. Our firm has designed not only generic research laboratories for physicians, biologists, chemists and physicists, but created specialized laboratories for ceramic grinding of rock in a geology lab, electronics suites for physicists, and a building, free of ferrous materials to house a large research magnet. Additionally, we designed three distinctly different research aquaria, including a recently completed fish facility which replicates tropical temperatures, humidity and changing lighting conditions by computer programming on a 365 day cycle and two greenhouses to house plants with specialty controls of light and temperature.
Private testing laboratories include facilities serving hospitals, medical and dental practices providing hematology, cytology, histology, bacteriology, serology, urinalysis, and DNA testing.
Laboratory projects include:
Research Laboratories:
- Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
Department of Cell Biology
Department of Nephrology
Department of Dermatology
Department of Immunobiology
Department of Electrophysiology
Department of Neurology
Department of Pharmacology
Department of Physiology (2 projects)
Department of Genetics
Department of Mass Spectrometry (2 projects)
Department of Pediatrics
Department of Psychiatry - Yale Psychiatric Institute
Department of Psychiatry - Connecticut Mental Health Center
Department of Rheumatology
Department of Bio-Chemistry & Molecular Medicine
Department of Ophthalmology
Department of Internal Medicine – Confocal Microscope Suite
Department of Cardiology
Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine- Electron Microscopy Suite
Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine – Research Labs - Yale School of Nursing, New Haven, Connecticut
Teaching / Research Lab - Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Kline Biology Tower - eight floors of laboratory renovations
Osborne Memorial Laboratories – Electron Microscopy Suite
Environmental Science Center – Ornithology Laboratory
- Veterans Administration Hospital, West Haven, Connecticut
Neuroscience Research Facility
Psychiatry Laboratory
Surgery Laboratory
ALS Research Facility
Comprehensive Cancer Unit - University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
Bio 4 Animal Care & Use Building (feasibility study & schematic design)
Yale School of Nursing
Laboratories, Private:
- Metpath Clinical Laboratories, New Britain, Connecticut
- Burt Medical Laboratory, Phase I and II, Hamden, Connecticut
- Canberra Industries Testing Laboratory, Meriden, Connecticut
Dialysis Centers:
- Gambro Healthcare Outpatient Clinic
New Haven, Connecticut
New London, Connecticut
Bridgeport, Connecticut - Gambro Healthcare Acute Dialysis Center, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut
Greenhouses:
- Yale Department of Ecological & Environmental Biology Greenhouse at Farnum Gardens, New haven, Connecticut
- Blithewold Mansion Greenhouse & Research Center, Bristol, Rhode Island
Teaching Laboratories:
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Environmental Science Center
Osborne Memorial Laboratory
