Tallahassee, Fla.
Florida State University opened the $72 million Chemical Sciences Laboratory in Tallahassee on May 2, 2008. Housing education and research space, the 168,000-sf, five-story building will accommodate approximately 250 researchers. The building has a total of 145 fume hoods and includes core research facilities, a 160-seat lecture hall, flexible laboratories, and synthetic organic chemistry labs. The facility will enable FSU to expand research programs in the molecular sciences. The project team includes architect O'BrienAtkins of Research Triangle Park, N.C., and joint venture construction management firms BE and K Building Group of Greenville, S.C., and Ajax Construction of Tallahassee, Fla.
