The facility now being built will function as a laboratory, training and office space for the state Dept. of Forensic Science and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
After 17 years of applications, funding debates and design and scope changes, the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas, was delivered by McCarthy/Mortenson.
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.
This laboratory challenges the traditional sterile aesthetic of research facilities by combining three warehouses into a single incubator lab, augmented by a three-story addition. The complex MEP system addresses specific operational requirements for offices and labs.