Centers for Disease Control & Prevention – Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Bldg. 18
CDC Building 18, the Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory, is the premier biocontainment facility of its kind in the world today. Located on CDC’s Roybal Campus in Atlanta, GA, this 440,000 sf facility is the flagship facility for the HHS in their mission to protect all Americans from infectious disease.
Building 18 incorporates BSL-4/3Ag/3/2 laboratories and animal facilities, including specialized research in Q-fever, avian influenza and other high consequence agents. The laboratories directly support the CDC Bioterrorism Program, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, Special Pathogens Branch, Division of AIDS, STD and TB Laboratory Research, and the Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases. The building also successfully balances ample office and amenity spaces with cutting edge laboratories to provide much-needed relief from the intensity of such research.
In addition, Building 18 contains forensic quality specimen receiving and analysis laboratories for CDC’s Bioterrorism Response and Preparedness program, which along with USAMRIID are the nation’s two Level D components of the laboratory response network. The laboratories are appropriate for drug efficacy studies, and the animal facilities are designed to AAALAC standards.
Hemisphere Engineering was responsible for overseeing the design of the ventilation, plumbing systems and control systems for the “High Containment” laboratories, which more than triple CDC’s current program space for such research. Hemisphere Engineering also oversaw the construction of the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems for this entire facility.
Hemisphere Engineering was responsible for the commissioning of the high containment systems and rooms for this project.
