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Infrastructure Modernization Initiative

To ensure the continued vitality of our national laboratories, the Office of Science is taking an integrated approach to improving the mission readiness of our facilities and infrastructure. This approach includes a significant capital investment program coupled with elimination of excess facilities and a sound maintenance program. The Infrastructure Modernization Initiative encompasses the first two elements of that approach. Under the Initiative, the Office of Science will provide capital investment through the Science Laboratories Infrastructure (SLI) budget to make needed improvements to general infrastructure. These investments will revitalize our ten laboratories over the next ten years. The goals of the Initiative are to –

Provide the modern laboratory infrastructure needed to deliver the advances in science our Nation requires to remain competitive in the 21st century.
Correct longstanding deficiencies to ensure laboratory infrastructure provides a safe, quality workplace.

Projects included in the Initiative will –

Renovate or replace space that does not meet research needs,
Replace facilities that are no longer cost effective to renovate or operate,
Modernize utility systems to prevent failures and ensure efficiency, and
Remove excess facilities to allow safe and efficient operations.

The Infrastructure Modernization Initiative Program Management Plan describes how the Office of Safety, Security, and Infrastructure is managing this critical initiative. There are currently active projects underway at multiple national laboratories. More than 30 projects are planned for the initiative overall, and those have been prioritized and sequenced into a Planning Baseline. The mission-related benefits of the projects in this planning baseline are described in each laboratory's Annual Laboratory Plan.

Gordon Fox serves as the Program Manager for the Infrastructure Modernization Initiative, and he can be reached for questions or comments at gordon.fox@science.doe.gov

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Capability Replacement Laboratory

Infrastructure Modernization Initiative Projects:

Energy Sciences Building (ESB) at ANL (proposed in FY-10 Budget)

Modernization of Laboratory Facilities at ORNL

Interdisciplinary Science Building at BNL

Seismic Life-Safety, Modernization, and Replacement of General Purpose Buildings, Phase 2 at LBNL (proposed in FY 2009 budget)

Technology and Engineering Development Facility at TJNAF