The Department of the Army, Army Corps of Engineers, Wilmington District, has a requirement to construct a new laboratory/office/seed processing building and Headhouse/Greenhouse facilities to support several of the field-focused research programs.

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• The scope of this project is to Construct a new laboratory/office/seed processing building and Headhouse/Greenhouse facilities to support several of the field-focused research programs. This project will be developed on property leased by the USDA ARS on the grounds of the NCSU campus. The site is estimated at 12.5 acres. Site improvements include parking lot, roads, utilities to within 5′ of buildings. Laboratory, office, seed processing building is 45,000 square feet. Greenhouses and headhouses are 6,500 square feet total for two facilities. Optional Equipment storage and shop building are 6,000 square feet.
• The research and processing structure is to be pre-engineered metal building construction with steel frame and box corrugated metal cladding over insulated girts and perlins. Standing seam metal panel will be the dominant roof material. The support spaces – well house, headhouse, and pump house – will be CMU construction with a CMU veneer and a low slope PVC roof. The building massing reflects the agrarian context of Lake Wheeler Road’s research, university, and private residential buildings. The program is deliberately organized to group related functions for efficient process flow and provide office separation from noisier processing areas. The processing areas are designed to allow the plant material to flow from the dirtier delivery eastern side toward the clean processing rooms on the west. The organization of the massing also helps visually screen views of site activities from Lake Wheeler Road and Inwood Road. The main building will be a single story with processing program and office/research spaces organized in wings corresponding to their respective crop. Entry for guests, personnel and research staff will be at the personnel hub in the shortest wing accessed from the parking area to the east. Loading for seed processing areas will be on the eastern end of their respective wings. HVAC, Telecom, Plumbing and Fire Protection systems will run overhead through the breezeway plenum and connect to the wings they service, routed through the roof space of each wing. The headhouse will include a grow room; and an evaporative cooled greenhouse divided into three compartments will be located to the south of the headhouse connected with a covered breezeway.