The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is building a 3,000,000-gsf campus on 130 acres in the 660-acre White Oak Federal Center in Silver Spring, Md. The General Services Administration's National Capital Region broke ground on the first 125,000-gsf building in March of 2001. Designed by Kling Lindquist and RTKL Associates, the facility is a laboratory for the FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. Now 40% complete, the lab is slated for occupancy in early fiscal 2003. Phase two consists of a 500,000-sf office building for the drug evaluation center. The office has already been designed and funded and is expected to begin construction in fiscal 2003.
Features of the project, which will complete the FDA's decade-long consolidation initiative, include a highly reliable electricity supply required by the FDA, and water for heating and cooling. The FDA has contracted Sempra Energy Services to build a central utility plant that uses energy-saving cogeneration technology, to be constructed behind an historic fire station facade.
