FOOD & DRUG ADMINISTRATION LENEXA LABORATORY, Lenexa, KS
Project Overview
The FDA Lenexa Laboratory project involved the conversion of office and warehouse space into a state-of-the-art 59,690 SF office and laboratory. The laboratory spaces include a specialty clean room suite with polypropylene casework and fan filters in the cleanable ceilings to test for trace metals in products. The mycotoxins area tests for toxic fungus. The sample kitchen features prep areas where food is cooked and tested for contaminants. Another set of labs tests products for pesticides. This facility also examines dietary supplements to check for active pharmaceutical ingredients, or APIs, and is the national servicing center for FDA’s Total Diet Study, an ongoing surveillance program that monitors nutrients and contaminants in the average U.S. diet.
NKB provided third-party design period peer review and construction period quality assurance for this project. Through our GSA SPD IDIQ contract, NKB was enlisted as a subject matter expert for the FDA. NKB’s deep knowledge of the National Institutes of Health Design Requirements Manual (DRM) made the team the perfect partner to the FDA. The team reviewed and crafted technical and operational requirements, which guided the actual design and construction of a project.
Services
Architecture
Client
U.S. General Services Administration
Key Project Elements
Regulatory Laboratory Design
National Institutes of Health Design Requirements Manual
Office/Warehouse Conversion to Office/Laboratory
Subject Matter Expert Guidance
Third-party Peer Design Review Schedule