Contracting authority: Carlos III Health Institute
The construction project extends the laboratory for the ISCIII BIOBANK and research centre for advanced therapies within the Carlos III Health Institute Campus in Majadahonda.
In this way, the ISCIII BIOBANK is integrated into the existing facilities on the Campus, complementing and extending the existing services and facilities, communicating with and giving continuity to the National Microbiology Centre and Building 53, research facilities and laboratories that are currently in constant operation.
The ISCIII’s BIOBANK building pioneered drug research and advanced therapies. With this objective in mind, the execution needs. Characteristics of the building are set out, highlighting the need to establish the correct execution controls and achieve excellence in developing the works in the planned Clean Room and Laboratory spaces.
The ISCIII BIOBANK building
The building is distributed over a total of 3,382 m2 of constructed area spread over four levels, with 847.81 m2 on the first floor, ground floor, S-1 and 839.02 m2 on the floor below ground level or S-2. The distribution of the different spaces within the building can be summarised as follows: changing rooms, cryogenic room and deep-freezer room in basement 2; offices, culture rooms, virus protection laboratory and other laboratories in basement 1 and ground floor; and finally, cytometry room, quality control rooms and 3 clean rooms on the 1st floor.
The configuration of ISCIII’s BIOBANK building is completed with the urban development spaces, creating the site layout according to the access needs from the perimeter road and maintaining compatibility with the accesses to the nearby buildings.
The external layout of the building features a combination of two main façade typologies, a white precast concrete panel system and a metal panel system, which form a ventilated façade. Thus, the exterior aesthetics of the surrounding buildings are preserved, maintaining a homogeneous solution.
This uniformity in the volume is broken by the planned structure of the footbridge connecting the existing buildings, the envelope of which is made of glass This is the main access point to the building on its floors above ground level, which shows the importance of the correct execution of this element of the building and how the generation of these enlarged laboratory spaces has a final functionality in that they are facilities that add to, extend and improve the existing facilities of the CNM and Building 53.
