2024 Lab Design Excellence Award Winning Project – The University of California San Diego

CONGRATULATIONS TO UCSD

mottLAB WEST, along with our manufacturing partner Mott Manufacturing, are honored to be the laboratory furniture and fume hood suppliers for The University of California San Diego, Franklin Antonio Hall, which was the winner of the 2024 Lab Design Excellence Award for Special Merit: Design Excellence.

Franklin Antonio Hall at the University of California San Diego is designed for collaborative research. Thirteen large research facilities called ‘collaboratories’ make up the heart of Franklin Antonio Hall. Each ‘collaboratory’ houses a collection of professor-led research groups from different but related disciplines. The building is designed to maximize the circulation and collaboration of UC San Diego faculty, students, professional research staff, and industry partners.

The highly flexible and adaptable labs feature 367 custom pre-wired and pre-plumbed Sigma Carts™ for UCSD Franklin Antonio. The project also consists of Mott Manufacturing’s Pro Series fume hoods, painted steel casework, height adjustable mobile tables, and overhead ceiling panels.

Congratulations to the rest of the project team: Perkins&Will (architect), McCarthy (general contractor).

As part of its annual Design Excellence Awards, Lab Design News honors achievements in research laboratory design, planning, and construction. A panel of industry leaders—consisting of laboratory architects, engineers, construction professionals, and editorial staff from Lab Design—analyzes each entry for its approach to lab design.