{"id":1096,"date":"2025-10-07T17:27:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T22:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palanisami.com\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2025-10-07T17:27:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T22:27:56","slug":"u-of-m-microbial-cell-production-facility-mcpf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palanisami.com\/?p=1096","title":{"rendered":"U of M Microbial Cell Production Facility (MCPF)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- FB Like Button Starbit IT Solutions BEGIN -->\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.palanisami.com\/?p=1096\" data-layout=\"standard\" data-action=\"like\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-size=\"small\" data-width=\"450\" data-share=\"\" ><\/div>\n<!-- FB Like Button Starbit IT Solutions END -->\n<h5>St. Paul, MN<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The new MCPF facility is built to accommodate expansion U of M\u2019s Biotechnology Resource Center program. It is a 2-story building with basement and penthouse which includes large and small-scale fermentation labs, media\/solution prep, inoculum labs, purification labs, an analytical lab, and conference rooms (86,700 SF).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palanisami.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20230912_145528_copy-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1087 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.palanisami.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20230912_145528_copy-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.palanisami.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20230912_145528_copy-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.palanisami.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20230912_145528_copy-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.palanisami.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20230912_145528_copy-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.palanisami.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20230912_145528_copy-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.palanisami.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20230912_145528_copy-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.palanisami.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20230912_145528_copy-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Foundation walls, footings and 2-story columns consist of CIP concrete. The floor is concrete slab on grade at basement and first floor. The partial first and second floor consists of concrete slab with pan &amp; joist system. Penthouse floor is composite slab with steel beams framing. Steel beams and columns frame the building and penthouse roofs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palanisami.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20230912_145335_copy-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1088 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.palanisami.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20230912_145335_copy-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"326\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.palanisami.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20230912_145335_copy-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.palanisami.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20230912_145335_copy-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.palanisami.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20230912_145335_copy-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.palanisami.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20230912_145335_copy-1536x768.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.palanisami.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20230912_145335_copy-2048x1024.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>PAI performed structural engineering design and developed construction plans.\u00a0 PAI also performed shop drawing review and inspections during construction.<\/p>\n<p>Construction Cost:\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0$80 million<\/p>\n<p>Construction Period:\u00a0 \u00a02022 &#8211; 2023<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Paul, MN &nbsp; The new MCPF facility is built to accommodate expansion U of M\u2019s Biotechnology Resource Center program. It is a 2-story building with basement and penthouse which includes large and small-scale fermentation labs, media\/solution prep, inoculum labs, purification labs, an analytical lab, and conference rooms (86,700 SF). Foundation walls, footings and 2-story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,22,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-completed-projects","category-education","category-recent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palanisami.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palanisami.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palanisami.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palanisami.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palanisami.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.palanisami.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1100,"href":"https:\/\/www.palanisami.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions\/1100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palanisami.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palanisami.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palanisami.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}