State of Michigan Public Health and Environmental Sciences Lab
Dimondale, Michigan
The State of Michigan is preparing to move into the future with a new Consolidated Laboratory program, replacing existing aging and obsolete facilities. The new lab complex will be the home to four state agencies: MDHHS, MDEGLE, MDLEO, and three state agencies. The project site is located on the west side of Lansing, MI at the southern intersection of I-96 and I-69, adjacent to the existing state facility campus in undeveloped land. The lab is anticipated to be 304,800 sf with construction cost stated to be approximately $170M and total project cost of $260M (factoring the exclusion of the existing co-gen plant work and tunnels in the original estimate).
The project is anticipated to provide sustainability features to achieve LEED Gold status without formally submitting to USGBC for certification. Public health labs are changing. World public health events – natural and man made – infectious diseases to biological terrorism are becoming more common in our media. The changing environment of public health requires a different approach to the design of public health labs. The labs designed in the past are already challenged with obsolescence. Even by the time your building is constructed, it will already be outdated in many ways. The world is changing faster than we can design and construct buildings.
This project is designed in conjunction with CannonDesign
