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MCHarry Associates is assisting Florida International University to gather material for a federal grant to obtain funding for the Marine Fisheries and Ecosystem Dynamics and Policy (MFEDP) Center. The material includes project descriptions, program development, floor plans, and 3D material. The $13,250,000 MFEDP Center Building serves three research groups - Spatial and Population Dynamics, Coastal Ecosystem Dynamics, and Water Quality and Pollution.
The 36,200 sq ft MFEDP Center is designed to facilitate the collaborative and interdisciplinary work between field researchers and modelers and between natural and social scientists that is critical to the measurement and prediction of the effects of management on species, ecosystems, and human communities needed for sustainable use of coastal resources. The building’s design provides space for faculty, staff, and graduate student offices and intermingles dry and wet labs as well as large collaborative areas. Research labs will facilitate multiple approaches including advances in predictive modeling, field and laboratory studies of organisms including the effects of pollutants on their health, water quality analysis, stable isotopic studies of food webs, molecular and genomic methods, and modeling of coupled human-natural systems. Although much research will be focused on coastal ecosystems of the southeastern United States and Caribbean, the scope of the MFEDP will be global. The MFEDP Center design expresses the sustainable design principles that were at the core of the design concept. The high value lab and research spaces are elevated above a generally open ground floor. This will protect the labs and research areas in case of catastrophic hurricane flooding. By placing the primary vertical structure outside of the building envelope, the walls/glass are easily shaded from direct sun. The structure is extended above the main roof to support the photovoltaic panels.
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