On Mar. 19, 2015, a contract was awarded to DGR Grant Construction of Richland, Washington, to build a new chemistry laboratory building at the DOE’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Construction was scheduled to begin in the spring of 2016 on the general-purpose chemistry building. The 16,000 s.f single-story building cost about $7.5 million to build and furnish. The new building featured 10 chemistry labs and a small complement of workstations for researchers to use while conducting their experiments.