New Building Approved for Jefferson Lab Campus
This is an architect’s rendering of the 30,000-square-foot Test Lab addition
This is an architect’s rendering of the 30,000-square-foot Test Lab addition, which recently received Critical Decision 1 approval from the U.S. Department of Energy - the second in a five-step processing for approving DOE construction projects. An architect-engineer design firm has started advanced conceptual design planning for the project. Rendering by Dills, Ainscough & Duff Architects.

On Sept. 23, the Department of Energy acquisition executive approved Critical Decision-1 (CD-1) for the proposed Technology and Engineering Development Facility to be built at Jefferson Lab.

The project scope calls for construction of a 70,000-square–foot, stand-alone building situated between the Test Lab and Jefferson Avenue, a 30,000-square-foot addition to the Test Lab and rehabilitation of the Test Lab (Bldg. 58).

The architect-engineer design firm, Ewing-Cole of Philadelphia, visited JLab Sept. 24 for a kickoff meeting with the lab's integrated project team and the tenant committee in preparation to start advanced conceptual design planning for the project. The tenant committee includes representatives from the Superconducting Radiofrequency, Physics, Engineering and Free-Electron Laser groups who will be affected by the project.

Design work is scheduled to start this fiscal year, followed by construction starting in late FY 2010. The new construction is currently scheduled for completion in FY 2012, with the renovation work being completed in FY 2014. Keith Royston, Facilities and Logistics Management, is the JLab project manager and Warren Funk, 12 GeV Upgrade team, chairs the tenant committee.

"This is great news. We are delighted," said JLab Director Hugh Montgomery. "Having a strong infrastructure is the basis for our advances in science and technology; I’d like to thank everyone at the lab who has been working on this proposal. Good job!"