NIAID Integrated Research Facility (Fort Detrick)
Hemisphere Engineering’s is providing commissioning services for the high containment portion of this project as well as overall management of engineering services, and full mechanical, plumbing, controls, and fire protection design and coordination. Specialized systems design includes: liquid waste decontamination system and waste monitoring, tissue digester, and a study of the existing campus medical waste incinerators.
The project consists of a stand-alone research facility that incorporates laboratories, animal holding and special imaging equipment procedure spaces into a BSL4 containment facility in order to research pathogens related to biodefense and emerging infectious diseases. BSL2 and BSL3 laboratory space and researcher offices are included in support of this scientific program. Biosafety, administration, operations offices and meeting rooms are provided to ensure the safe and effective management and operations. In addition to the BSL4 facility, new infrastructure will be constructed to house new boilers, chillers and emergency power generators.
Innovation allows for a customized building configuration that will afford planning and engineering of systems flexibility to ensure that each program within the facility is built to their individual technical requirements. This strategy ensures that the maximum amount of laboratory space will be built within the defined project construction cost.
This is the first BSL4 facility designed to contain Imaging technologies (MRI) within
containment space.
