Walsh Gilbane JV Wins Public Health Command Laboratory Replacement

ARLINGTON, Va. — Walsh Gilbane JV (a joint venture of Walsh Federal, LLC and Gilbane Federal) has been awarded the Public Health Command Lab Replacement project located on 20 acres on Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.   The $206-million fixed price contract was awarded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District for the Army Institute of Public Health.

The design-bid-build project includes the construction of more than 275,000 square feet of modern, consolidated medical research laboratory consisting of wet labs, field labs, vivarium under Good Laboratory Practices, offices, warehouses and a central utility plant. The facility includes Anechoic Chambers, Insectary Chamber and Laser Labs.

The new facility will help the Public Health Command to deal with emerging environment threats and health challenges for forces worldwide. The Central Energy Plant is 43,000 gross square feet and will produce chilled water, hot water and steam to support the building with N+1 redundancy. The CUP will also provide emergency power to approximately half the laboratory and entire vivarium with two 2000 kW generators. The entire project is seeking LEED Silver certification.