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IRIC is part of a new biomedical and pharmaceutical complex at the Université de Montréal. It is located in the Marcelle-Coutu Pavilion, a building outfitted specifically to meet the demands of cross-disciplinary research, located on Polytechnic Road at the heart of the university campus. IRIC is linked to the Faculty of Pharmacy (Jean-Coutu Pavilion) via the Morris and Rosalind Goodman Agora.
Technical Specifications
Height: 6 stories
Floor space: 19,343m2
Capacity: 500 investigators, postdoctoral fellows and students, professionals, technicians and administrative staff
Research laboratories: 24
Core facilities: SPF Animal Facility - Bio-Imaging - Bioinformatics - Biophysics and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance - Flow Cytometry - Genomics - High Throughput Screening - Histology - Medicinal Chemistry - Proteomics - - Recombinant Proteins - Transgenesis
Construction Phases
Project design & development: March 2002
Technical & functional program: July 2002
Beginning of excavation: January 2003
End of construction: December 2004
Professional Team
Project management: Tangram Experts-Conseils Inc.
Architectural consortium: Jodoin Lamarre Pratte et Associés - Nfoe et Associés - Birtz Bastien - Lemay et Associés
Structural engineering: Saia, Deslauriers, Kadanoff, Leconte, Brisebois, Blais
Mechanical/electrical engineering: Pellemon inc. - BPA Inc.
Construction management: Pomerleau inc.
The creation of IRIC is a testament to the commitment of the Université de Montréal, the Government of Quebec and the Government of Canada to investigator-initiated basic research as the engine that drives improvement in public health.
