PULLMAN, Wash. – The Veterinary and Biomedical Research Building at Washington State University has received high honors in the 48th Annual Laboratory of the Year Awards competition sponsored by R&D Magazine and Laboratory Design Newsletter.
The awards recognize excellence in research laboratory design, planning and construction. Judging for this year’s competition was conducted by a panel of laboratory architects, engineers, equipment manufacturers, researchers and the editors of R&D Magazine and Laboratory Design Newsletter.
The annual international competition receives entries from the best new and renovated laboratories. Eligible projects represent a wide variety of laboratory types: research, quality assurance/control, teaching, software development, environmental, clinical, forensic and testing and standards.
Completed in June 2013, the WSU building is a state-of-the-art research facility located on the Pullman campus just east of the entrance to Martin Stadium and south of the Beasley Coliseum parking lot. Construction began in 2010, and move-in was completed by fall 2013. The budget was just over $96 million.
The facility provides 77,250 net square feet (approximately 128,000 gross square feet) located within the Research and Education Complex. The building provides properly equipped and environmentally controlled, state-of-the-art biomedical research and support space for the health science teaching and research programs. A vivarium is included to provide modern animal holding facilities for gene targeted and knockout animals, as well as to provide essential quarantine space and specialized environmentally controlled space for biomedical research.
The project was designed by SRG Partnership, Inc., of Seattle and Portland and constructed by Lydig Construction, of Spokane, Bellevue and Tri-Cities. Jacobs Consultancy, a specialized management, technical and consulting division of Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., served as laboratory design consultants.
Virgil Hanson was WSU’s project manager during construction.
Contact:
Robert Strenge, WSU News, 509-335-3583, rstrenge@wsu.edu