Buildings and Facilities

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Authorizing Legislation: Section 301 and Title IV of the Public Health Services Act, as amended. NIH maintains funding in the FY 2027 Building and Facilities (B&F) plan for previously funded building and infrastructure projects to cover potential change orders, unforeseen conditions, and other contingencies that may arise during ongoing construction. Where an ongoing project is part of a phased program of projects, and a new phase is proposed in FY 2027, the program details are provided in the following bullet list of ongoing projects. These ongoing projects have been detailed in previous Congressional Justification submittals and include the following: Surgery, Radiology, and Laboratory Medicine Building (SRLM) ($85.0 million): The SRLM project will replace a portion of the outdated and deteriorating Ambulatory Care Research Facility by constructing an eight-story, 527,000 gross square feet (GSF) addition to the NIH Clinical Center, as well as repurpose and renovate two floors (103,000 GSF) of the west laboratory wing of the Clinical Replace Clinical Center Patient and Visitor Parking (Multi-Level Parking Garage, MLP-12) ($8.0 million): The proposed MLP-12 is a multilevel parking garage with a capacity of 1,400 parking spaces, enabling the decommissioning of the ACRF parking garage and reducing risks associated with its condition and location beneath the Clinical Center. This project consists of a six-story, 90,000 GSF addition to the Building 40 NIAID VRC which works to discover and develop novel vaccines targeting infectious diseases of global public health importance, to include HIV/AIDS, influenza and other emerging and neglected diseases. NIH Animal Center (NIHAC) - Convert Building 102 A and B Wings, Poolesville ($2.0 million): This project provides approximately 50,000 gross square feet of program space to meet current research demands, address deteriorating vivarium conditions on the Bethesda Campus, and fulfill NIH's responsibility to ensure high-quality facilities that protect animal welfare and well-being when animals Building 11 Chiller & Cooling Tower Replacement Program (Phase 1) ($10.0 million): Phase 1 of this five-phase program replaces all existing outdated electrical equipment, with remaining phases replacing Chillers 16 through 21, Cooling Towers 19 through 21, and Boilers 1 through 5 located on the Bethesda campus improving chilled water, steam and power efficiency, and reliability. ($10.0 million): This program of projects consists of four phases to interconnect three existing substations and two existing switching stations in a power ring bus configuration improving power reliability and operational efficiency across the Bethesda campus. Phase 3 - design only) ($107.5 million): The Building 11 Chillers and Cooling Towers Replacement program will replace the remaining six Central Utility Plant (CUP) R-22 refrigerant chillers and associated cooling towers providing chilled water across the Bethesda campus. These requests are for phases 2 and 3 of this 5-phase project and include funding for construction replacing chillers 18 and 19 and cooling tower 19, and design for replacing cooling towers 20 and 21. These projects also include the replacement of other critical equipment, such as pumps and boilers, which will greatly improve efficiency and resilience of the CUP. Bulk Fuel Oil Underground Storage Tank ($15.0 million): The Central Utility Plant, Building 11, provides steam to heat and to humidify more than 14 million gross square feet of space at the NIH Bethesda Campus. The CUP utilizes natural gas as its primary fuel, but during curtailment periods, No. 2 fuel oil is utilized. The existing Underground Storage Tanks are located between the CUP and the Thermal Energy Storage (TESS) tank. The tanks were built in 1952 and are not in compliance with current federal, state, and local environmental regulations. This project will replace the CUP's two aging underground storage tanks providing steel secondary containment to store fuel oil in the case of a leak. The replacement not only provides reliable secondary containment but also allows for future inspections of the exterior primary tank wall and the interior of the secondary containment, and importantly, brings the CUP into compliance with current federal, state, and local environmental regulations. Building 10 NIH Clinical Center - H-Wing Renovation (design only) ($28.0 million): The renovation of the Building 10 H-Wing will restore primary mechanical, electrical, and other building infrastructure and facilitate more efficient use of 73,450 gross square feet of former patient care and laboratory areas on Floors 3 through to the rooftop mechanical space. Spaces will be converted into modern laboratories, laboratory support space, and offices for personnel in the clinical research programs of numerous This project follows completed Building 10 Wing renovation projects for the E- and F-Wings. The intent is to renovate the H-Wing in a similar manner, leveraging the benefits of large, multi-discipline renovations to capture greater economies of scale, resulting in reduced costs over small/single discipline projects. This will also reduce project risks by isolating work at the wing level, limiting impacts to adjacent spaces and activities, and capitalizing on fewer and larger utility shutdowns rather than many smaller shutdowns, which are difficult and expensive to coordinate and execute. The project scope for the H-wing upgrade includes full interior and systems renovations for new laboratory facilities and new vertical building and lab service distribution risers, including new HVAC supply and exhaust systems. The entire H-wing will operate on separate systems from the adjacent wings. The H-Wing project will be completed in one phase of construction, allowing the greatest flexibility to plan and execute. The primary benefits of this project are enabling NIH's BMAR reduction strategy and improving the efficiency and reliability of program space for programs currently located in Building 6 Aquatics Facility - Filtration System Installation ($10.0 million): The Building 6 Aquatics Facility requires a more robust water filtration system. The existing filtration system promotes genetic contamination and the growth of harmful bacteria. The improvements will provide an acceptable water quality to support the fish tanks located in the Aquaria Holding Room and the procedure rooms on the B1 level, thereby allowing the researchers to produce meaningful science related to the study of the Zebra fish. This work is part of the second phase of a plan to improve the water quality at the Aquatics facility. The phasing of the work is critical given the small size of the existing equipment rooms and the critical nature of the equipment being replaced. All work must be done to minimize downtime of the aquatics facility systems. A benefit of this project is that it will improve reliability of existing program space, improving productive time for scientific research. Modular Data Center ($12.5 million): Several critical NIH Center for Information Technology (CIT) functions, such as the NIH network, security monitoring, and critical applications, must remain on campus. CIT faces two major challenges: the Biowulf High Performance Computing (HPC) system reached capacity in 2019 and is approaching end-of-life; and Building 12, which houses the data center, was not designed or equipped to be a sustainable data center. It was constructed as a multi-function facility and retrofitted to house a data center. The facility has been assessed in poor condition and requires major critical infrastructure (electrical, HVAC) repairs over the next decade to maintain current CIT plans to begin refreshing the Biowulf HPC system by 2029 to meet increasing research demands.

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