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MIT — The Seat of Scientific Excellence
When MIT commissioned its new Brain and Cognitive Sciences Complex — the world’s largest neuroscience center — the institute selected a smoke protection system from BLE Fire and Smoke Curtains, U.S. Smoke & Fire®’s partner.
The institution
They say the combined revenues of companies founded by MIT affiliates would make the twenty-fourth largest economy in the world. Hardly surprising, from a university faculty that has produced 72 Nobel Laureates.
The building
The new Brain and Cognitive Sciences Complex, designed by Charles Correa Associates, is a triumph of urban design and engineering — and it posed big challenges for the engineers and architects.
The seven-story, 412,000-square-foot complex houses three separate research organizations, creating a world-class center for brain research. There are wet and dry laboratories, facilities for biology, biochemistry, behavioral and cognitive research, an auditorium, a café, seminar rooms, and a five-story day-lit atrium. The complex also spans an active freight railway that runs through a tunnel below the atrium level.
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