The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has hired the design-build team of JE Dunn Construction Co. and SmithGroup as it tests a new procurement strategy. It will be used for a $224-million project to build the Energy Materials and Processing at Scale facility at the federal agency’s South Table Mountain campus in Golden, Colo.
use of the cooperative construction contracting approach, NREL, a unit of the U.S. Energy Dept. focused on research and development for renewable energy and energy efficiency, aims to speed up future contracting processes and boost construction efficiency by working with a single construction partner for projects valued at more than $10 million.