For over 25 years, Merrick has provided functional, highly flexible, and aesthetically pleasing building design solutions to federal agencies. Projects have ranged from laboratory complexes and high containment labs to industrial facilities and federal office buildings. These facilities incorporate flexible, modern, and sustainable spaces which integrate state-of-the-art building management control systems for energy efficient operations; secure and versatile communications systems, force protection security features, video/teleconferencing facilities and command and control functions vital to national security.

Merrick’s lab experience with federal agencies has also included specialized nuclear and high-containment biological research facilities (including BSL-3 and above), vivariums and laboratories for cytogenetics, molecular research, general analytical research, ecology and plant physiology, clonal germplasm repositories and seed germination. Merrick has extensive and successful design-to-cost experience for laboratories and other technically challenging, mission critical facilities.

Federal Project Expertise:

• BSL 3 & BSL 4 laboratories
• Commissioning of nuclear and high containment facilities
• Research and development
• High containment plants and laboratories
• Nuclear
• Chemical
• Medical

Key Clients:

• U.S. Department of Agriculture
• U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Disease
• Health Canada
• Agriculture Canada
• Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Sandia National Laboratory
• Argonne National Laboratory
• Brookhaven National Laboratory
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Idaho National Engineering Laboratory
• U.S. Dept. of Energy
• U.S. Dept. of Interior
• U.S. Dept. of Defense

Laboratory, Research and Containment Facilities Projects:

• BSL-3Ag Large Animal Housing and Training Facility, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service; Ames, IA.pdf
• Southern Plains Research Facility, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service; Woodward, OK.pdf
• Primary Care Clinic Renovation and Addition, USACE Kansas City District; Fort Leonard Wood, KS.pdf
• Sugarcane Research Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service; Houma, LA.pdf
• Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service; Athens, GA.pdf
• National Seed Storage Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture; Fort Collins, CO.pdf