LSRI Complete!

The Life Sciences Research Centre (LSRI) at the corner of Summer and College Streets on the Dalhousie University campus in Halifax, is scheduled to open in June of 2011. WHW is proud of this architectural legacy, but this is one project where even the architects can admit that what will happen inside the building is more exciting than the building itself.

The LSRI is the home to the world renowned Brain Repair Centre, led by Ivar Mendez. The Brain repair Centre is a joint Dalhousie University / Capital Health and IWK Health Centre initiative which occupies two floors of laboratories and a CL2/APL2 Integrated Animal Care Facility that can accommodate non-severe biological agents to serve the needs of both Dalhousie University and the Brain Repair Centre. The Brain Repair Centre links more than 100 world-class researchers and physicians who are doing work related to Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, Alzheimer’s, ALS, multiple sclerosis, vision dysfunction, spinal cord injury and pain. The Centre holds the potential to develop innovative new treatments and medical instrumentation.

The facility also accommodates tenants that have laboratory space requirements ranging from as small as 600SF to as large as multiple floors, with each research suite designed to provide approximately 70% lab space and 30% office space, while offering sufficient flexibility for its tenants to grow and change. The possibilities for research in this building are astonishing.

All of this is linked together by a soaring 5 storey atrium, which not only allows natural light penetration into the core of the building, but also provides a comfortable and central location for collaboration, presentations or relaxation.