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Scientific Equipment

Floor-mounted bollards
(service pedestals)

500
Industrial robotic systems to
wash mouse cages and move flies

4
Lab robotic systems to sequence DNA, do molecular biology
Up to 5
Freezers
52
Hoods (fume and biosafety)
30
Computer-aided manufacturing tools to build machines
3
Transmission electron microscopes
3
Optical microscopes
30
Pipetting devices
300
Dry ice (est. lbs per year)
20,000
Items in central laboratory supply stockroom (includes beakers, chemicals, bench-top centrifuges, etc.)
500
Mouse cages (capacity)
7,000
Unlike any other lab in the country...
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Workplace Furnishings

Whiteboards
38
Rugs
41
Office desks
240
Lab chairs/stools
400
Game tables/workout equipment
40
Campus pub barstools
32
Auditorium chairs
299
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Structural Support

Glass (square feet)
147,000
Concrete (cubic yards)
66,000
Reinforcing steel (tons)
4,700
Hardwood (board feet)
35,000
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Computer System

Fiber-optic and copper computer wiring (miles)
350
CPUs (central processing units, or computer brains)
1,000
Computational power (teraflops)
7.5
Computer storage, initially (terabytes)
150
One-hundred-and-fifty terabytes...
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