Biodesign by the numbers

58,000 square feet of red brick, enough to build a 2-foot tall wall from the Biodesign Institute to downtown Scottsdale

37,000 cubic yards of dirt were excavated to house the lower level/basement, the equivalent of the dirt that would be excavated in constructing 1,000 swimming pools

24,000 square feet of glass curtain wall, which would cover half a football field

13,000 cubic yards of concrete, enough to pave a 20-foot-wide road from the Biodesign Institute to the site of the medical school in downtown Phoenix.

2,000 tons of cooling, the equivalent of what is needed to cool 400 average homes

1,500 tons of steel reinforcement, the weight of 700 automobiles

1,000 tons of structural steel, the weight of 153 elephants

50 fume hoods in the laboratory areas, capable of exhausting 70,000 cubic feet of air per minute

4 mega watts of power are required, enough to power 340 average home