FDA Breaks Ground for New HQ and Lab at White Oak

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Food and Drug Administration (FDA) consolidated headquarters and laboratory campus broke ground recently at White Oak, a base realignment and closure site formerly home to the Naval Laboratory campus. The FDA, currently housed in more than 40 buildings at 18 different locations in the Washington, D.C., region will use 130 acres of the 670-acre campus. The two major objectives of the project are to consolidate the FDA headquarters and three centers: and to develop state-of-the-art laboratories, a central research facility, and offices that can respond to the FDA's future needs. The Washington office of Kling Lindquist, in association with RTKL Associates Inc., is providing architectural, engineering, and interior design programming, master planning, and supporting studies for the 2 million-sf project.