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Appendix I 



A^Dg FedermJ Laborstorle* Need Rep«ira 



ftiid Upgrades 



The Clijucal Center Complex is m senous need of m^or corrective action to resolve its 

 facilities deficiencies. The Review Committee agrees that the utility systems within the 

 Clinical Center Complex have deteriorated beyond reasonable repair The systems are no 

 longer reliable, they violate codes and regulauons, are difficult and costly to maintain, the 

 capacities of the systems have been exceeded, and they do not provide adequate flexibility 

 for modification or upgrade." 



The review committee further stated that the limited space between the 

 clinical center's ceilings and floors constrains the ability to install and 

 service hvac equipment and duct work, electrical power lines, and other 

 utilities. In comparison with the clinical center's floor-to-floor height of 12 

 feet, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Army Corps of Engineers 

 require a minimum 18-foot floor-to-floor height m new and upgraded 

 hospitals. The additional 6 feet provides more space between a ceiling and 

 the floor above for installing and servicing utilities. According to nih 

 facilities managers, demand on the clinical center's hvac systems exceeds 

 capacity by 50 percent, resulting in the marginal operation of laboratory 

 fume hoods, degradation of indoor air quality, and cross contamination of 

 air between laboratones. 



The Army Corps of Engineers' review committee recommended that nih 

 construct a new clinical center complex as the best long-term technical 

 solution among four alternatives evaluated for addressing the clinical 

 center's problems. The Corps of Engineers estimated that construction of 

 a new clinical center would cost $1.43 billion and take 14-1/2 years to 

 complete, .vih adopted the review committee's recommendation; its 

 Buildings and Facilities Plan issued in August 1992 included a new clinical 

 center complex estimated to cost $1.6 billion and take 11-1/2 years to 

 complete. - 



National Institute of 

 Standards and Technology 



The National Institute of Standards and Technology (nist) has laboratory 

 campuses at Boulder, Colorado, and Gaithersburg, Maryland. In a 

 March 1992 report, .sist proposed the implementation of two separate 

 10-year plans to upgrade its laboratory facilities to a condition necessary 

 to fulfill its mission. 



nist's first plan addresses the technical obsolescence of environmental 

 systems controls and the reliability of power supplies that limit its ability 

 to provide the exacting measurements of a national reference laboratory. 



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