Facility Tours

Health Care Council tours

Moakley Building at Boston Medical Center

The 134,000 gsf nationally award winning Moakley Building establishes a consolidated identity of cancer care programs on the BMC Campus while also expanding other key programs within one comprehensive center. The new building houses radiation medicine, a PET/CT scanner, ambulatory surgery, otolaryngology, the Center for Digestive Disorders, the Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, surgical oncology and phlebotomy.  The building, located at the center of this busy hospital campus, is organized around a four-story glass atrium that assists in wayfinding and natural light throughout the facility.  In addition to the tour of the Moakley Building, you will have lunch in the newly renovated conference facility located in one of the historic buildings original to the campus, and hear about the latest developments at BMC including a new 250,000 sf ambulatory care building.

Children’s Hospital Boston Berthiaume Family

Recipient of Modern Healthcare’s 2006 Award of Excellence, the Berthiaume Family South Building designed by Shepley Bulfinch sets a new healthcare benchmark for Children’s Hospital Boston, combining pioneering medical technologies with a healing environment for patients, families, and staff. Completed in 2005, this 240,000 s.f. tower houses the latest “smart box” technology in a unitized curtain wall skin, including: cardiac and medical/surgical ICUs, acuity-adaptable acute care units, imaging and surgical suites, and the nation’s first intraoperative MROR. The project marks the latest phase in the hospital’s 90-year partnership with the firm. Located on a tight urban site, the project required relocating underground utilities and a street.

Research and Development Council Tours

Harvard University Northwest Science Center

Designed by Craig Hartman and SOM's San Francisco office, the Harvard Northwest Science Center will bring together a broad array of researchers for formal collaborations and intellectual exchange, as well as support Harvard's mission to expose every undergraduate more broadly to science.  "The building will accommodate collaborative research and teaching efforts for disciplines such as neuroscience, bioengineering, systems biology, computational biology, and biophysics." 

The design avoids "hard-wiring" the labs through its flexible armature-"the central nervous system." that runs down the middle of the building, defining the pedestrian corridor and leaving the bench area free of columns and vertical penetrations.  It will house up to 30 faculty and their research groups -- approximately 400 researchers and staff.  This programmatic "Iceberg" has more than half the facilities below grade; including classrooms, seminar rooms, collection space, teaching labs, imaging, animal facilities and a chilled water plant.

The Edythe and Eli L. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

This 230,000 square foot facility is a new prototype for high hazard urban research buildings and provides a state of the art environment in which more than 600 life science researchers can think, create, and investigate.  The building is a unique collaboration of Harvard University, its affiliated hospitals, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The design imperatives of openness, flexibility and intellectual stimulation have informed a building that has given the Broad Institute the physical space it needs to achieve its objectives of transforming the understanding and healing of the human body.  It accommodates the research practices of today and anticipates the methods of tomorrow.  It facilitates the interaction and collaboration of some of the most gifted thinkers of our time. 2007 Lab of the Year High Honors award winner for R&D Magazine.