Mayo Clinic Integrated Education and Research Building

THE PROJECT

Project Highlights

Big room planning using lean construction process
Integrates learning and discovery with medical school classrooms, laboratories, and simulation rooms
Collaborative environment reflects the unique desert surroundings

Mayo Clinic Integrated Education and Research Building merges education, research, and patient care for the first time into a single four-story, 150,000-square-foot facility. Located on the east side of Mayo Clinic’s Phoenix Campus and adjacent to Arizona State University’s new Health Futures Center, the building optimizes the training of future physicians and growth of biomedical research. The facility includes medical simulation suites, procedural labs, learning labs and digitally enabled classrooms as well as 20 biomedical and translational research labs. Unique features of this project include a covered outdoor courtyard located between the education and research wings for occupants to collaborate and a two-story pedestrian bridge.

OUR IMPACT

LEAN METHODOLOGY

for an efficient design and construction process

DRIVING VALUE

through collaboration and innovation

TRANSFORMING

patient care through furthering medical learning and discovery

Service Provided

Structural engineering

OUR SOLUTIONS

MBJ used several project approaches to facilitate a more efficient design and construction process. The project utilized “big room” planning, where all stakeholders met in a proactive, face-to-face environment. Using Lean practices, the team focused on collaboration and innovation to drive value throughout the design.

MBJ was able to reduce the number of CFS kickers by providing Steel Embeds to reduce cost and help with field coordination. There was extensive coordination during design to facilitate EIFS and Metal Panel Movement joints to limit supplemental steel to support the complicated “folded” exterior skin system.