What type of facility is being planned?
The Integrated Research Facility is a 100,000-square-foot building housing laboratory space for animal research, radiology equipment, mechanical space, and a waste-handling area. There will be BSL-2 and BSL-3 laboratory suites similar to those in existing NIAID laboratories. In addition, there will be a suite of laboratories designed to operate at BSL-4 that will occupy a small portion of the building.