Richland, Wash.
The Department of Energy opened the $10 million Systems Engineering Building in August of 2015. Located at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash., the 22,000-sf facility provides labs, computational space, and offices to support research on power grid dynamics and renewable energy technologies. The project, which has been awarded LEED Gold sustainable design certification, houses the Building Operations Control Center and the Power Electronics Laboratory. The facility was designed and built by DGR Grant Construction in collaboration with Meier Architecture & Engineering. Construction began on the facility in April of 2014.