NCI Lab - FB Harding Inc.

NCI Lab

The 68,700 three-story building precast façade and steel building consisted of separate contracts for the base building and tenant. The project includes office space, multipurpose rooms, environmental cold rooms, open laboratories, casework systems and fume hoods. The project involved the coordination of power to over 700 pieces of mechanical and laboratory equipment. FBH installed a 1250kW generator to serve as the emergency and standby backup to the new 4000A PEPCO service. The telecommunications and security conduit infrastructure was installed from the adjacent garage to the new lab building and a new road with site lighting was installed along the west side of the building.

"The project team looked to proven industry leaders to physically construct the building. For the electrical portion of the facility Whiting-Turner partnered with FB Harding as a key Design-Assist partner. Their knowledge, skills and abilities and their relentless commitment to meet the project goals was key in the success of the project.

During the design and engineering of the project, FBH utilized the knowledge of the field team and performed numerous constructability reviews, value engineering efforts and helped identify several systems and equipment that were able to be prefabricated offsite. The early involvement of Harding’s key craftsmen not only helped with the items noted above but also allowed them to engage in the project early and reduce the learning curve of the project ahead of when a typical electrical crew would have been on site."

Brent Gourley (Whiting-Turner Contracting Project Manager)