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PNNL to break ground on two new research facilities
Construction contractors will break ground later this week on two new, privately financed research facilities at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory campus in north Richland. PNNL News Release - 06/09/08
- Ground-breaking set for 2 PNNL facilities - Tri-City Herald.com - 06/10/08
- Energy Dept. breaking ground on Richland projects - Puget Sound Business Journal - 06/10/08
Contract awarded for completion of PSF
The single largest contract ever awarded in PNNL's history, $106 million, was signed last week to complete construction of the Physical Sciences Facility. Construction of the buildings is expected to be completed in 2010. Full Story
- Agencies fund lab construction - Inside EnergyEXTRA - 05/05/08
- $106M Battelle project to employ 100 - Tri-City Herald.com - 05/03/08
Foundations being laid for Physical Sciences Facility
Under a nearly $14-million contract, Apollo Inc., of Kennewick has been pouring foundations and soon will erect structural steel for the PSF. To date, the construction contractor has placed concrete for the Ultra-Trace facility, the deep lab, the Radiation Detection building and is excavating the foundations for the Materials Science and Technology building. All of the buildings comprise the PSF. It will take about a year to complete the foundations and structural steel work. In total, Apollo will place approximately 8,000 cubic yards of concrete and erect approximately 1,400 tons of structural steel while working on the PSF.
Physical Sciences Facility new construction beginning to take shape
Construction manager Bill Steward reviews progress on the Deep Lab, part of the new construction on the Horn Rapids Triangle.
Apollo Construction was awarded a nearly $14-million contract for providing foundations and erecting structural steel for the Physical Sciences Facility project. The Kennewick-based company is expected to begin this month with work to be completed by December 2008. Read more...
PNNL to take bids to rework Hanford buildings - Tri-city Herald - 01/11/08
Construction begins on Physical Sciences Facility complex
Aerial photo of HRT
Randolph Construction Services, Inc. of Pasco began clearing land last week to make way for the Physical Sciences Facility, ushering the start of the single largest construction effort in the history of PNNL. Read more...
Hastings: Key Piece of PNNL's 300 Area Project Approved Private Sector Financing for Two New Buildings Gets Green Light - 8/07 (PDF - 34KB)
No road blocks on utility project at Horn Rapids Triangle 08/06/07
The uncertainty surrounding the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's future is unnerving and unnecessary. - Tri-City Herald - 7/6/07
Utilities pave the way for North Richland Research District - 4/07
Steps taken in Congress to get funds for facilities at Pacific Northwest lab - 6/18/07
Capability Replacement Laboratory contractors began soil boring on the site of the proposed Physical Sciences Facility in the Horn Rapids Triangle in December. Soil boring is a pre-construction step needed to quantify soil conditions for seismic analysis, aquifer yield, subsurface investigations and bearing pressures, which are important for structural design.
Murray asks DOE for funding answers - Tri-City Herald - 3/22/07
Science, technology earn good grades for PNNL - Tri-City Herald - 3/3/07
Technology Today - PNNL's Future Campus Update
Next step cleared for new PNNL lab facility - Tri-City Herald - 2/16/07
Energy solutions that play to Washington's strengths - The Seattle Times - 2/5/07
Higher costs lead DOE to re-evaluate plans for research facilities at PNNL - Inside Energy 11/20/06
U.S. Senator Patty Murray toured the Radiochemical Processing Lab
U.S. Senator Patty Murray toured the Radiochemical Processing Lab (RPL) during a brief visit to PNNL Friday morning, October 27, 2006. After a welcome from Dr. Peters, Jim McClusky, PNNL Capability Replacement Laboratory project director, gave Sen. Murray an overview of the Lab's progress on the CRL project. Gert Patello, RPL manager, led the group on a tour of RPL.
The Tri-City Herald ran a front-page story consideration being given by DOE and PNNL to letting PNNL remain in selected facilities in Hanford's 300 Area instead of moving all 300 Area staff and capabilities into new buildings on the PNNL campus. - Tri-City Herald 09/18/06
PNNL selects national architectural firm to develop design for replacement facility - 5/08/06
Senator Maria Cantwell at BSEL ground breaking.
Groundbreaking - AgInfo.Net - 4/16/06
PNNL Bio-Products Center Called 'Cornerstone' of Breaking America's Foreign Oil Dependance - KNDU - 4/14/06
Breaking ground - Tri-City Herald - 4/14/06
Ground was broken today - KONA Radio - 4/13/06
Bioproducts Lab Brings State's Top Researchers, Governor to Groundbreaking Ceremony - KEPR - 4/13/06