Facilities

The Director of Facilities Office serves as the Keck School of Medicine’s central point of contact for the coordination and financial management of facilities services and renovations, allocation of space, management of property, and environmental health & safety in 35 buildings (689,000 square feet) costing $16.5M.  Fifteen are KSOM owned buildings with an O&M cost of $11.9M, seven are leased at the cost of $4.6M with 2 off campus leases paid by their grants.  There are 11 Los Angeles County buildings used by KSOM for research that are neither leased nor owned by KSOM. 

In 2001, the USC Health Sciences Campus had approximately 290,000 net assignable square feet of research space.  In 2003, however, the campus’ research space was significantly increased. That year the transformation began when the Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute (ZNI) opened as the first new laboratory research building on the campus in 10 years. ZNI opened with 125,000 gross square feet, of which 76,750 was assignable as research space.

In June 2007, the University opened the Harlyne J. Norris Research (HNT) Tower. That facility adds another 172,440 gross square feet, 98,400 of which is assignable to research programs. In addition, renovation of 8,015 gsf in the Clinical Science Center (CSC) building was also completed in May 2007.

Next on the University’s construction scene will be its third new research building--the Broad Stem Cell Institute. The Broad building is presently scheduled to open in fall 2009. At this time, the intent is that the Broad building will be approximately 80,000 gross square feet of research space and will provide space for the school’s growing Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine.

All of the above construction adds over 390,400 gsf of wet and dry laboratory space for biomedical research.  

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