Building 10 is a complex of buildings on the Bethesda campus that includes the new Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center, the world's largest clinical research hospital. The original structure in the Complex was opened in 1955. Active projects in the facility include:
Building 10 Main Corridor
The Main Corridor, conceptualized nearly ten years ago under the Building 10 Revitalization Program, is now open (as of December 5, 2009). This long-awaited primary circulation connector brings together the three facets of the NIH Clinical Center Complex: the original 1949 Clinical Center used mainly for research and offices; the 1981 Ambulatory Care Research Facility (ACRF) dedicated to research and outpatient clinics; and the 2002 in-patient Clinical Research Center which houses both patient and research functions.
Many challenges arose during the design and construction of the Main Corridor project as it traversed several existing functions. Opening in phases during 2009, it acted as the main artery for staff and visitors, and needed to remain accessible round the clock as construction progressed. The logistical challenges were many, but upon its completion the Main Corridor provides a simple, direct north-south route within the Clinical Center Complex. In addition, staff, patients and visitors can now more readily find the new Phlebotomy/EKG and Pharmacy departments.
The Main Corridor project is an example of benefits gained when complex requirements are addressed systematically and methodically through cooperative efforts among the various NIH organizations. Furthermore, the Main Corridor provides opportunity for further improvements and programs.
Building 10 - Clinical Data Center Relocation
This project involves the design and construction of a shell structure to contain the computer equipment and the electrical, HVAC, and telecommunications support systems directly associated with the special purpose computer equipment for the NIH Clinical Data Center in the CRC (Level B2, Room 8801.1).
Schedule/Status: Design Start: October, 2006, Construction Start: November, 2007, Construction End: May, 2009
Building 10 - Transition Program - Atrium Infill
The Building 10 Transition Program includes a functional realignment of portions of the Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center (Building 10) and the Building 10 Ambulatory Care Research Facility to ensure proper integration with the new Clinical Research Center. The renovation relocates various functions (Pharmacy, EKG, Phlebotomy) to re-align portions of the major and minor circulation paths within the ACRF and Building 10.
Schedule/Status: Design Start: April, 2006, Construction Start: September, 2007, Construction End: May, 2009
Vaccine Evaluation Clinic and Special Clinical Studies Unit (VEC-SCSU)
(VEC-SCSU) is a project renovating 9,000 SQ.FT on the 5th floor of the existing Clinical Research Center for use as Vaccine Evaluation Clinic and Special Clinical Studies Unit. Upon completion the VEC will be the home of the VRC’s clinical vaccine testing clinic within the CRC as well as become available to other ICs with active or future clinical programs involving testing of novel vaccine candidates. The Patient Care unit is to facilitate the efficient inpatient management of adult normal volunteers or patients participating on research protocols.
The Patient Care unit is designed and constructed with Isolation room features; one of the four patient rooms is a single bed with anteroom, clean equipment room and other ancillary support rooms. The other three Patient rooms have similar Isolation room characteristics as the single patient room, however without an anteroom, and they are double bed Patient Rooms. These enhanced patient isolation room would be used in the event a patient or NIH researcher is exposed to a highly infectious disease agent.
Status: VEC portion is 100% complete and opens April 2010.
SCSU is at 98% completed and will open Spring 2010.
Schedule: Start April 2006; complete; Spring 2010
Institutes: NIAID
IC Space Trade Renovations and Relocations (STRR)
The Building 10 STRR program involves the relocations of approximately 150,000 square feet of laboratory and office space. The purpose of the relocations is to improve IC adjacencies and efficiencies for essential research requirements following occupancy of the new Clinical Research Center (CRC). The STRR project will also vacate the old Building 10 patient care units to allow NIH to stop using unnecessary utilities, particularly water systems. There are presently 6 STRR tasks beginning with the first 4 STRR tasks obligated in late FY 2005.
Status: The first 4 STRR tasks are substantially complete. Design, construction, activation, and project turnover are substantially complete. The 2 later tasks are 80% complete, with design at substantial completion and construction at 70% completions.
Schedule: Start September 2005; complete late 2007 for the first 4 STRR tasks. The later 2 STRR tasks start September 2007 and complete November 2009.
Institutes: Multiple
Transition Program
The Building 10 Transition Program includes a realignment of patient-related facilities and primary circulation corridors within Building 10 and the Ambulatory Care Research Facility (ACRF) to integrate these areas with the new CRC.
Schedule/Status: The scope of the project was restructured to meet changing programming needs during June - October 2005. A new Request for Contract Action (RFCA) was issued in January 2006.
Institutes: Multiple
Repair Program
The Building 10 Repair Program is a multi-year series of projects to repair and replace utilities systems that have exceeded their useful service lives.
Schedule/Status: Initial funds for the program were approved in October 2005; subsequent funding is in doubt at this time.
Institutes: Undefined
Interim Renovation Program
This program is divided into two parts. Phase I provides required infrastructure reconfiguration to support the continuing operation of the ACRF.
Schedule/Status: Project is currently in the concept stage with an estimated construction start date of March 2007 and an estimated completion of September 2008.
Phase II provides for the creation of the multi-use utility system vaults and risers needed for replacing various primary Mechanical/Electrical/Plumbing (MEP) equipment in protected locations to allow continuous operation during a future major renovation of the building.
Schedule/Status: Estimated .
FY'05 Repair and Improvements Program
This program is a miscellaneous grouping of smaller and primarily mechanical projects for the Building 10 segment of the overall campus repair and improvement (R&I) program.
Schedule/Status: Construction is estimated to begin in March 2006.
Student Faculty Academic Center (SFAC)
This project will consolidate services provided by the Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences (FAES) into a single Center (26,000 gross square feet). The center will be located on the 1st and B1 levels in the central section of Building 10. A bookstore and coffee shop, classrooms, financial offices and administrative office will be constructed. Gift funds from the FAES will be provided for design and construction.
Status: Planning and design will be initiated in March 2006. A risk analysis, a program of requirements, and a 15% conceptual drawing set and specifications were completed by Mid 2008. An FPAA document and a furthering of the conceptual drawing set and specifications are being accomplished now. An Executive Steering Committee and a Working Group have been formed to help further the design. FPAA approval is estimated at April 2009. Design completion is scheduled for Late November 2009. Construction, consisting of 3 distinct parts, will begin in Early December 2009. Completion of the last part of construction and activation of the space is scheduled for Mid April 2011.
