Best Renovation/Restoration: GRAIL Laboratory and Research Facility
To develop its first wide-scale production testing facility, biotech company GRAIL wanted to move quickly. It called on contractor Brasfield & Gorrie to deliver the $38-million, 200,000-sq-ft project in 5.5 months. The project called for roughly 90,000 sq ft of new construction as well as a 110,000-sq-ft interior build-out of an existing warehouse with 60,000 sq ft of commercial PCR laboratory space for DNA sequencing operations and reagent manufacturing. The remaining build-out delivered 25,000 sq ft of warehouse and cold storage as well as 25,000 sq ft of open offices and conference spaces.