Site Construction Information & Updates

Have you noticed the utility inspection activity occuring across our hill site? The Linear Assets Modernization Project (LAMP) has begun preliminary investigations of our underground utilities as part of a comprehensive upgrade of our Lab infrastructure. Join Martin Johnson, Project Manager in the Projects & Infrastructure Modernization Division, as he explains how LAMP will modernize our […]

The Linear Assets Modernization Project (LAMP) will begin preliminary site investigations of underground utilities this spring. The project will modernize our utility systems to meet growing power demands, ensuring we can support advanced scientific computing capabilities across the Lab.

The Lab’s Collaboration Commons is taking shape. The structural steel is in place and undergoing welding through March. Concrete is also being poured this month. You can check on the progress through the live web camera. 

    Blackberry Gate will be closed on eight Saturdays from 6 a.m. to approximately 6 p.m. beginning Feb. 15 for wildfire mitigation work which includes the removal of hazardous trees. The project includes clearing dead, dying, or otherwise hazardous trees in the area of Blackberry Gate. The gate closure is needed so the work […]

The Lab celebrated a major milestone for the new Collaboration Commons building on Friday, Jan. 24 with a traditional topping out ceremony marking the placement of the final beam. The historic moment was captured from multiple angles, including aerial drone footage flown by Thor Swift and a beam’s-eye view from an attached GoPro camera. There […]

To celebrate the installation of the final structural beam for Collaboration Commons, all Lab employees and affiliates are invited to sign the beam starting Tuesday, Jan. 14 through Sunday, Jan. 19. Those who cannot sign in person can add their name to a virtual list to be included.

We asked for input on naming suggestions for the Lab’s new building, and you responded with over 100 thoughtful and creative suggestions—not to mention a touch of whimsy. The goal was to arrive at a name that creates a building identity so that all users — staff and visitors alike — can understand the purpose […]

Skip Dunham, the interim Projects and Infrastructure Modernization (PIM) Division Director, has been selected to be the new PIM Division Director effective Monday, Dec. 16. Skip joined the Lab seven years ago and has been the PIM division deputy for the past four years.  During that time he has led several key projects and initiatives […]

The Lab hosted a small, invitation-only ribbon-cutting, or rather garland-cutting, ceremony on Tuesday, Dec. 3, with visiting DOE officials to celebrate the near completion of the new Biological and Environmental Program Integration Center (BioEPIC). Among the participants were Dorothy Koch, associate director of the Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program at DOE’s Office of Science, […]

In Spring 2027 a new 47,743-square-foot building will open in the center of the Lab’s hill site. It will house food service (and a coffee bar!), conference facilities, and a home for Operations services such as Security, Human Resources, and the Health Services Clinic. What it needs right now, though, is a name.