Minnesota Departments of Agriculture and Health Laboratory Building
St. Paul, MinnesotaThe Laboratory Building is a state-of-the-art collocation for two Minnesota Departments located in the Capital area in Saint Paul. Collocating both the Minnesota Department of Agriculture and the Minnesota Department of Health will stimulate opportunities for shared information, knowledge and facilities.
The 178,000 square foot facility provides laboratory functions on three levels with office, support and meeting functions organized around the central lab core. Architecturally, the framework for the new laboratory building was developed from the inside out with the lab modules as the primary influence for the size and shape of the structure. The final configuration was established efficiently, maximizing the available site area. Functional adjacencies and occupancy requirements were the first priority for planning the facility resulting in an interactive environment of the new home of these two important State agencies.
Minnesota Sustainable Design Guidelines B3, parallel to LEED Certified.