Washington University School of Medicine Jeffrey T. Fort Neuroscience Research Building

The Jeffrey T. Fort Neuroscience Research Building and parking garage for the Washington University School of Medicine brings together 95 research teams focused on research areas of the brain and body’s nervous system, including Alzheimer’s disease and brain tumors. The facility currently accommodates 1,000 faculty and staff, with additional space that can be built out in the future to accommodate another 350 faculty and staff, including about 145 research teams.  

The $616-million, 11-story, 609,000-square-foot research building is one of the largest neuroscience research buildings in the world. The research building is comprised of wet and dry research laboratories, research lab support spaces, flexible, interdisciplinary research laboratories and clinical research spaces.  

In addition to the research building, McCarthy built a 1,846-vehicle parking structure featuring racks for bicycles and electric vehicle charging stations. A 1,000-foot elevated pedestrian connection bridge connects the new building to an existing parking garage and surrounding structures. The project scope also included a two-story, 24,775-square-foot utility plant that houses five 1,250-ton chillers, five cooling towers and two 3,000-kilowatt emergency power generators.