Did you know that one of the nation’s largest neuroscience research centers sits within a dense urban medical and research campus in St. Louis, MO? In addition to an adjacent 1,846-car parking garage with a pedestrian connection and a central utility plant, the $440 million building is 11 stories tall, encompasses more than 600,000 sf, and includes collaborative research spaces, shared equipment rooms, a vivarium, procedure spaces, offices, and desk space. 

The civil scope included mass excavation, bedrock demolition, structural excavation, and site utilities. One utility component included a 12 in high-pressure steam line and a 5-in condensate return line that extended 2,400 ft underground from the Euclid Power Plant to the research building’s central utility plant to support steam service. 

The Jeffrey T. Fort Neuroscience Research Building unites scientists from 120 research teams and 16 locations in a single facility. Now these experts in anesthesiology, develop-mental biology, genetics, neurology, neuroscience, neurosurgery, psychiatry, and radiology can continue life-changing medical research with direct access to cross-lab communication and support from their peers.