This project consists of 17 utility packages that will revitalize and upgrade BNL’s existing major systems including steam, water, sanitary sewer, chilled water, and electrical systems.

A team commitment gathering was held to commemorate the award of the project and recognize the work put into the proposal process. All team members – EW Howell, H2M, Gordon L. Seaman, KSW Mechanical, Ramboll Engineering, and Carson Corporation – were in attendance.

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The new Science & User Support Center offers workspace for over 250 Brookhaven employees as well as space for collaboration and conferences. The SUSC is part of a larger effort to redevelop an existing on-site apartment area near Brookhaven Lab’s entryway.

The SUSC was fully occupied by BNL staff by May 2025, with the facility’s ribbon-cutting ceremony being held the following August.

This project was recognized in Long Island Business News 2026 Real Estate, Architecture & Engineering Awards, earning an award in the Top Office Buildings Project category.

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This project consisted of the repurposing the National Synchrotron Light Source facility for use as a new scientific computing facility with associated support space and required infrastructure. The objective of the Core Facility Revitalization project is to provide newly renovated and modern computing facilities, offices and support functions within the existing B725 facility.

Work on this project included new modern and reliable power and cooling infrastructure which was provided with capabilities for expansion and incremental growth. Robust backup capabilities were provided for both power and cooling. Strategies were incorporated which provide for efficient data center configurations and accommodate BNL’s needs for future flexibility. Existing life-safety systems was upgraded and select exterior building system repair and replacements (roof, windows, etc.)

This 59,000-square-foot facility will host experiments across the U.S. and globally. We are proud to be a part of Brookhaven National Laboratory’s success story. As a General Contractor, we have a long history of working closely with the lab on numerous projects. Our experience and commitment to the project along with our partnership with BNL contributed to the success of the transformation.

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The new headquarters operates the state’s only U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-certified shellfish microbiology laboratory to ensure that the more than one million acres of shellfish growing areas throughout New York’s marine waters meet the stringent requirements of the National Shellfish Sanitation Program (NSSP). The lab must complete FDA-approved proficiency testing twice per year to maintain its FDA certification and is evaluated by the FDA every three years for NSSP compliance and recertification.

This project received the ASCE 2022 Project of the Year Building Award. It was also recognized as Top Government Project at the 2022 Long Island Business News Real Estate, Architecture & Engineering Awards.

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The Data Center was in the central part of the building open to the roof structure above. The remaining adjacent areas/levels of the building consisted of network rooms, tape library, support laboratories, office, lounges areas, etc. The project in addition required removal and replacement of all exterior clerestory windows, modifications to façade elements, and a complete roof removal and replacement.

Work on the Core Facility Revitalization project included new modern and reliable power and cooling infrastructure which was provided with capabilities for expansion and incremental growth. Robust backup capabilities were provided for both power and cooling. The data rooms are cooled via new chillers and cooling towers, providing chilled water directly to network racks through piping below a raised floor system, with individual branches and connections for future rack expansion. Strategies were incorporated that provide for efficient data center configurations and accommodate BNL’s needs for future flexibility and expansion.

A new Unistrut System was also installed throughout the main Date Center to support multiple levels of cable tray and lighting for the data rack rooms. A separate HCSG facility and generator yard includes 2 generators and switchgear, with the capacity to add an additional section of HVSG and up to 8 generators, for backup power serving the entire CFR facility.

The BNL CFR project was recognized as Top Industrial Renovation at the 2022 Long Island Business News 2022 Real Estate, Architecture & Engineering Awards

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The space also included 3 ABSL-3 laboratories or suites for work with small laboratory animals, an insectary, an animal imaging suite with an adjacent suite for work with large laboratory animals, areas for clean and dirty cage wash and ancillary office space.

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The Center is also equipped with a wet lab, analytical lab, and classroom spaces to improve their existing undergraduate and graduate teaching programs. A new large conference room and lobby space advance public and academic outreach through lecture and hands-on marine activities.

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EW Howell Construction Group completed the 87,000 gross-square-foot, 2-story building in March 2013. This project is important for the Long Island economy. During the 2-year construction period, it helped to create hundreds of local jobs, and the majority of the construction costs were spent directly with Long Island subcontractors and suppliers.

The building contains nearly 60 laboratories, two with very unique features: a dry room with finite humidity control for assembling new batteries, and an “Oasis” laboratory — an ultra-low vibration laboratory that will provide the stability required for a cutting-edge “MIRAGE” Spectroscopic Imaging Scanning Tunneling Microscope. There, scientists will be able to grow samples within a vacuum-locked system and then transport them to the microscope without breaking the vacuum’s seal.

The biggest challenge the crew faced regarding this project was making the most of the state-of-the-art facility while not reducing sustainability and science targets. For example, the Hard X-Ray Nanoprobe (HXN) building. This sensitive facility houses one of the world’s brightest beam lines, so just a slight vibration could ruin an experiment. To guarantee that HXN would be vibration free, EW Howell added a unique concrete underlayment to stop vibrations from ruining future experiments.

To design the low vibrations HXN lab, EW Howell installed the facility 30 feet deep in the ground. The concrete walls measure 3 feet thick and the rooms are electromagnetically shielded against radiation. Inside the rooms are 80-ton inertia blocks, which hold the HXN and research equipment steady. With this stability, scientists can study particles at the nano or atomic level without any disturbances.

At the beginning of the project, BNL requested a clean room measuring at class 100 or 000. Halfway through the job, BNL asked for the clean room to be a dry room, where humidity is under 1 percent to work with lithium ion batteries. With the additional ductwork and strict fume hood standards, the workers needed to be flexible in the crowded area. Coordinating the different parts of this single project posed a significant challenge for electrical, mechanical and plumbing crews.

EW Howell finished the building March 2013, not only under budget but six months before the original deadline. Now, it houses different laboratories for different research.

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The initial best value bid approved three LOBs, but the contract made space for two more facilities, which were eventually included. The NSLS-II project creates X-rays 10,000 times more intense than traditional NSLS. Scientists use the building for the S light source, which is a ring building for sensory X-rays of nanomaterials. Every year, approximately 2,200 researchers travel from 400 government labs, universities, and companies to use NSLS-II to study computer chips, catalysts, biological molecules, and more.

EW Howell faced a variety of challenges on this project. One such challenge was joining the LOBs to the NSLS facility, which was still being built. To do this, EW Howell and the other NSLS team coordinated their schedules. Communication was essential throughout construction; sometimes all five buildings were at different building stages as more than 130 laborers worked on their individual assignments.

Another challenge was the Buy America Act that BNL used for federal funding, requiring EW Howell to change suppliers to guarantee that the main elements of the building were made in America. During the project, EW Howell build more than just LOBs; the team collaborated with the HDR architects, the lab project team, and other subcontractors to fulfill clients’ expectations for complex designs.

BNL security was a third obstacle for EW Howell. Because of sensitive scientific projects and nuclear research, workers submitted to random quality control inspections. Trucks underwent scans, weigh-ins, and examinations; equipment was inspected and tagged; 24-hour surveillance cameras were installed; and workers signed in and out using photo ID badges.

Despite obstacles all five Laboratory Office Buildings at Brookhaven National Laboratory were completed on time. Additionally, an overall objective was to guarantee workers’ safety. BNL honored EW Howell with an award for working over 300,000 man-hours without any lost workdays due to injuries.

This project was recognized in Engineering News-Records’ 2013 Best Projects, receiving the Award of Merit for Government/Public Buildings.

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Work included, but was not limited to, civil, architectural & structural work as well as MEP’s. The mechanical work included new centrifugal chillers, chilled water pumps, associated piping in pump house expansion; two cooling tower cells and sonoxide condenser water treatment system, steam & condensate work, control centers, new power & lighting, site lighting, electrical distribution, and the expansion of an outdoor electrical substation to meet future capacity.

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