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Goal 2
Construction Begins on LM Business Center
The General Services Administration (GSA) awarded the lease contract on behalf of LM for a records management and operations facility to be located in Morgantown, West Virginia, on June 9, 2008. The design and construction team for the facility includes FD Partners LLC and Petroplus and Associates LLC as the developers; Paradigm Architecture as the architect; and DCK North America LLC as the general contractor.
The 59,000-square-foot facility, located on a 10-acre site in the West Virginia University Research Park, will house more than 90 Federal and contractor personnel supporting the DOE’s Office of Legacy Management. The facility, which is to be called the LM Business Center, will contain non-classified records from the Cold War nuclear legacy. The records, now maintained at several Federal Records Centers, will be centralized at the Morgantown facility and will be accessible to researchers, former contractor employees, and other authorized persons both in on-site records research facilities and via a state-of-the-art electronic record-keeping system.
Since award of the lease, GSA, DOE, and the design and construction team have completed the ground lease with West Virginia University, completed preliminary building layout and office infrastructure decisions, developed security planning and transportation criteria, and completed the Design Intent Drawings which capture LM’s tenant improvement requirements. The developer began construction in October with rough grading and has completed portions of the building foundation system, including caissons and spread footers. Work on the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing rough-ins will begin soon. The development team has also ordered select building components, such as steel, and the project is on schedule and within budget for occupancy in December 2009.
In keeping with the Federal Government’s support of environmentally friendly buildings, the project had the goal to achieve the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program “silver” certification. Design considerations have also been integrated with the Archivist consultant assisting with the NARA 2009 compliance and the LEED consultant assisting with obtaining the LEED “silver” certification.
This corresponds to Goal 2 of LM's Goals--
Preserve, protect, and make accessible legacy records and information.
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