Construction of LA BioMed's new research building has topped out at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance.
The $63-million facility - scheduled for completion in December of this year - consists of a four-story building with 78,000 square feet of floor area. Of that space, approximately 18,000 square feet will be set aside for a bioscience incubator housing startup companies. Construction of the $6-million incubator was provided by Los Angeles County and philanthropists Melanie and Richard Lundquist.
Other uses within the completed facility will include a wet lab for research teams working on new diagnostics and therapeutics, a dry lab for computational biology and medical informatics, a 160-seat lecture hall, conference rooms, a data center, offices and a freezer farm for bio-banking of tissue samples.
ZGF Architects designed the sleek glass and steel structure, which is located at the heart of an 11.5-acre research park - described as Los Angeles County's first biotech hub.
See a fly-through tour of the facility below.
LA BioMed, founded in 1952, is a non-profit medical research organization headquartered in Torrance.
