Reference Laboratory in Yerevan, Armenia

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Reference Laboratory in Yerevan, Armenia

Yerevan, Armenia

Firm

Hrachya Vardanyan LLC

Type

Industrial › Laboratory

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2016

SIZE

3000 sqft - 5000 sqft

BUDGET

$5M - 10M

Ministry of Health, National Center for Disease Control and Prevention Central Facility Yerevan, Armenia.

Architectural company " HRACHYA VARDANYAN" LLC
Architects - Hrachya Vardanyan and Zareh Gharibyan

The Ministry of Health (MoH) maintains a NCDCP laboratory at Davit Malyan 37, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia (RA). This laboratory has been selected by GoAM and as the location of the MoH NCDCP Central Facility. The main four-story building will be renovated to house the MoH laboratory facilities

The current NCDCP building houses a virology laboratory, an EDP laboratory, and a bacteriology laboratory. In addition to the NCDCP building, the MoH maintains a second building known as the Center for Prevention of Particularly Dangerous Infections (CPPDI). This building, in central Yerevan, houses a laboratory and a museum of live cultures.
As part of the recent MoH reorganization, the CPPDI has been merged into the NCDCP, and its functions and laboratories will be relocated to and included in the renovated NCDCP building.
The project consists of renovating the existing 4,000-square-meter laboratory structure to meet the objectives described in Section 1.1. The existing NCDCP building was designed in the late 1960s, and construction was finished in 1970. A new roof and some other renovations were completed in 1989. The boiler servicing the building appears to be new, with a nameplate indicating it was made in 2012.
The building has four service floors plus a basement, a mechanical level (called “technical level” in many of the existing drawings) above the fourth floor, and an attic under a pitched roof.
The building is a reinforced concrete-framed structure with a monolithic floor slab for the center corridor of each floor and precast floor planks spanning the distance between the exterior walls and the central corridor. The building exterior is tuff stone. Only a partial set of drawings has been located.
The existing NCDCP building is a four-story building that will be reconfigured to meet the programmatic requirements of the MoH’s Disease Control and Prevention program. This will require renovating the following: existing building into laboratories, sample preparation areas, media preparation areas, and various support functions such as laboratory administration, library, conference/lecture rooms, cafeteria/eating space, server rooms/telecommunication rooms, restrooms, mechanical rooms, and electrical rooms. The architectural, structural, electrical, mechanical, and security narratives that follow in Section 2.3 define the various materials and systems that are to be included in the renovation and design of this NCDCP Central Facility.
Architectural campoy is Hrachya Vardanyan LLC
Constraction compony is CH2M HILL LLC