The Bioscience Research Building is a new interdisciplinary facility for the College of Life Sciences, located adjacent to the Plant Sciences Building that Ballinger completed in 1996.  The facility houses highly flexible research labs, a new auditorium, a 500-person lecture hall, and symposium commons, and creates a new front door to Hornbake Plaza, setting in motion a long range plan to grow life sciences at Maryland.  An important component of the program is the flexible lab module which can adapt to changing space ratios, as well as evolving grant-driven allocations to individual principal investigators. The project was designed using LEED protocols.