Farmington, CT – Centerbrook Architects and Planners of Centerbrook and Tsoi/Kobus & Associates of Cambridge, Mass. will plan and design The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine facility in Farmington, Conn., Laboratory officials announced.
“By combining the expertise of two top architecture and planning firms, we have the ideal team in place for this complex building project,” said Charles E. Hewett, Ph.D., Jackson’s executive vice president and chief operating officer. “Both firms specialize in designing scientific research space and are leaders in environmentally friendly building practices.”
JAX Genomic Medicine, a new nonprofit research institute for genomics-based medicine, will house 300 biomedical researchers, technicians and support staff in advanced computing facilities and laboratories.
The high-profile project will be completed in 2014.
The nonprofit Jackson Laboratory has built or renovated seven research buildings on its Bar Harbor, Maine, headquarters campus in the last 10 years, each structure representing the state of the art in function and energy conservation.
Jackson Labs Plans New Facility
Farmington, CT – Centerbrook Architects and Planners of Centerbrook and Tsoi/Kobus & Associates of Cambridge, Mass. will plan and design The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine facility in Farmington, Conn., Laboratory officials announced.