• Project Facts
• Client: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Program: building
• Completed: 2006
• Project Team: Jon Keller, John Nakazawa

Professor Sylvia Ceyer designed and built ultra high vacuum chambers to study the dynamics of the interactions of molecules with the surfaces of materials. Her chambers had been in place in the main group buildings for 20 years and weighed upwards of 3 tons. IKM's design challenge was to renovate the labs and move the chambers within the labs, while the lab was operational. The process of creating the vacuum in these chambers utilized a series of pumps requiring rigid stainless steel piping of exact configurations and connections. In addition, because of the quantity of pumps involved, a separate pump room was created for noise containment. The antiquated lab was also upgraded with new mechanical and electrical systems.

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