Congratulations to Rice University!
Rice University has opened its largest core campus research facility, The Ralph S. O’Connor Building for Engineering and Science, in September of 2023, in Houston. Designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM) with Scientia Architects as laboratory design consultant, the nearly 50 labs in this building can support both wet and dry research venues and has a total of 250 fume hoods. Specialized lab spaces will continue to be built out through 2026.
Flexible & Adaptable
Along with our dealer MGC, we provided many product solutions for these flexible and adaptable labs such as extra deep SafeGuard™ bench and floor mounted fume hoods, rift cut white oak casework with clear stain, painted steel casework, acid cabinets, flammable cabinets, custom pump cabinets, stainless steel pegboards, and cylinder storage racks.
We also provided custom Altus™ benches, with features such as: extra deep benches, additional electrical outlets in the upper posts, custom plumbing, data, EdgeWave™ LED task lighting, custom raceways, and bench mounted frosted glass marker boards.
Congratulations to the all of the teams involved in this amazing project.
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