NASA-Ames Research Center Biosciences Laboratory

3QC is serving as Commissioning Authority for the new Biosciences Laboratory Building N288 located at the NASA/Ames Research Center at Moffett Field in Mountain View, California. The new two-story, 38,000 SF building will consist of laboratory space, office space, conference rooms, and support space. The building is designed to house approximately 20,000SF of wet laboratory and laboratory support space and 18,000 SF of enclosed and open office space, conference rooms, and break rooms. The building has biosafety level 2 wet labs with laboratory grade utility systems such as ultra-purified water, instrument grade compressed air, and laboratory vacuum. The laboratory support spaces include procedure rooms, tissue culture rooms, autoclave/sterilization, controlled environment rooms, and radiation lab. The laboratory includes a large number of chemical fume hoods requiring sophisticated laboratory exhaust system to ensure safety and energy efficiency.

The building is being constructed as a sustainable facility and is designed to achieve LEED-NC version 3.0, Silver Certification. The project will also comply with the requirements of Title 24, Part 6 and Cal Green requiring the commissioning of process equipment, landscape irrigations systems and water reuse systems. 3QC is implementing a Total Building Commissioning and both LEED Fundamental and Enhanced commissioning are being performed. NASA