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Laboratories
Project Name	City	State	Sub-Category
Sandia National Laboratories: Microsystems and Engineering Science Applications (MESA)	Albuquerque	NM	Laboratories/Manufacturing/Technical/Industrial
Kirtland Air Force Base Advance Laser Facility	Albuquerque	NM	Laboratories/Manufacturing/Technical/Industrial
State of New Mexico Crime Laboratory	Albuquerque	NM	Laboratories/Manufacturing/Technical/Industrial
Tempur-Pedic Manufacturing Facility	Albuquerque	NM	Laboratories/Manufacturing/Technical/Industrial
Merillat Cabinet Manufacturing Facility	Los Lunas	NM	Laboratories/Manufacturing/Technical/Industrial
General Mills	Albuquerque	NM	Laboratories/Manufacturing/Technical/Industrial
Intel Fab 9 Expansion: Fab 9.1: Fab 11 *	Rio Rancho	NM	Laboratories/Manufacturing/Technical/Industrial
Tri-Services Laboratories	Albuquerque	NM	Laboratories/Manufacturing/Technical/Industrial
Adventist Media Productions	Simi Valley	CA	Laboratories/Manufacturing/Technical/Industrial
Sandia Pueblo Waste Treatment Facility	Sandia Pueblo	NM	Laboratories/Manufacturing/Technical/Industrial
Advent Solar Photovoltaic Manufacturing Plant	Albuquerque	NM	Laboratories/Manufacturing/Technical/Industrial
Albuquerque Studios	Albuquerque	NM	Laboratories/Manufacturing/Technical/Industrial

Project Name	City	State	Description
Sandia National Laboratories: Microsystems and Engineering Science Applications (MESA)	Albuquerque	NM	Chavez-Grieves Consulting Engineers, Inc. is providing structural engineering design for this $120 million project. It is a new state-of the-art facility that will provide the capabilities essential to maintain a safe, secure, and reliable nuclear weapon stockpile. It will create a computationally intensive environment for the design, integration, prototype fabrication, and qualification of integrated microsystems into weapon components, subsystems and systems for the U.S. nuclear weapon stockpile. The project consists of three buildings, Micro Fab, Micro Lab, and WIF (Weapons Integration Facility). All three buildings are vibration sensitive with the Fab having the strictest criteria. The Fab is mostly comprised of a clean room environment for chip manufacturing, and is an extension of the existing 858 building. This manufacturing process requires three building levels; the subfab for running of utilities, the fab or clean rooms level, and the fan deck or equipment level. The fab level slab is comprised of a concrete waffle slab with raised flooring on top and utilities need to run from the subfab to the fab level. Therefore, there are "pop outs" in the waffle to run these utilities, four in each waffle. This creates so many holes in the floor diaphragm that a new design method for buildings was implemented using a strut and tie method. This method is just being introduced in the new American Concrete Institute (ACI) concrete code. The Fab also has storage areas for hazard materials/chemicals, which requires containment and blast structures. This $462 million, 391,000 square foot project includes three buildings, laboratories, cleanrooms, and office space for microsystems research. Includes structural steel, concrete waffle slabs, extensive earth retaining structures, anti-terrorist force protection and strict vibration limits.
Kirtland Air Force Base Advance Laser Facility	Albuquerque	NM
State of New Mexico Crime Laboratory	Albuquerque	NM	The State's Laboratory Services Building, a $47.8 million project, will be located on the University of New Mexico campus in Albuquerque. The new facility consolidates five separate State agencies: The New Mexico Department of Health Scientific Laboratory Division, NM Department of Public Safety Crime Laboratory Bureau, NM Office of the Medical Investigator, NM Department of Agriculture Veterinary Diagnostics Services, and the University of New Mexico Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases. Common areas will include lobby, classroom and conference room areas that will be shared by various building agencies. On-site parking will allow for 204 staff, 12 fleet vehicles, and 20 visitors.
Tempur-Pedic Manufacturing Facility	Albuquerque	NM	The new Tempur Production facility is home to the Swedish mattress companies latest plant. The facility is located on the west end of Albuquerque on 50 acres. The building is approximately 800,000 square feet. Interior spaces vary in height from 25’ to 45’. The building skin is designed as a combination of insulated concrete panels and insulated metal panels. Interior walls are primarily concrete or concrete masonry. The roofing is a TPO roofing system. The main entrance is designed to announce the front door of the facility. The colors are natural earth tones to blend with the landscape. The building is primarily a manufacturing occupancy group with offices and some light hazard occupancies. The structure is an unprotected steel frame construction, fully sprinklered. The building is designed to the 1997 Uniform Building Code requirements. Architectural services contracted with the owner include structural, mechanical and electrical engineering services.
Merillat Cabinet Manufacturing Facility	Los Lunas	NM	Merrilatt Industries LLC is opening a new 350,000 sq. ft. cabinet-making facility south of Albuquerque New Mexico. The project costs are estimated at $35 Million and will employ 700 people once it is fully operational. Chavez-Grieves is the structural engineer of record on this project.
General Mills	Albuquerque	NM
Intel Fab 9 Expansion: Fab 9.1: Fab 11	Rio Rancho	NM	Fab 9 EP1/Fab 11 North, Intel Corporation, Rio Rancho, New Mexico This addition/expansion to the Intel Rio Rancho complex involved a build-out of an existing 30,000-sq.-ft. waffle slab.  The support structure for the Fabs, which included a Clean Room,  was constructed of process module steel.  Also included was a pedestrian link to the east. The additional 180,000 sq. ft. included a notch build-out, designed with 7' thick raft slabs. The build-out served as a support zone for the Fabs, including a sub Fab and a fan deck.  Also included in the facility is a new dionized polish building, expansion of the existing Energy Center, miscellaneous trenches, miscellaneous pipe supports, and extensive modifications to the existing support zone roof for air handlers. Fab 9 EP2/Fab 11 South, Intel Corporation, Rio Rancho, New Mexico This project involved the design and engineering by Chavez-Grieves of numerous support facilities that surround the Central Utilities Building (CUB).  Design projects included:  A pipe bridge connecting 8 cooling towers to the CUB.  The pipe bridge carries two 60" diameter water lines along with numerous other utilities; Structures surrounding storage tanks that have 3 or 4 different levels of interconnecting access catwalks per tank; A tie-in trench to the bulk chemical gas area;  A pad for the lime silo storage tank;  Pads for diesel generators;  Cooling tower containment basins;  25' deep holding pits for chemical containment;  Oil-based transformer pads with containment structures; and, Four emergency generator fuel tanks with containment structures.  Also included were two 60'x80', 4'-deep, concrete foundation mats with drilled piers designed for eight 80' tall RODI tanks.  Due to the speed of the overall project, the 34' tall basement walls of the CUB were not originally designed for surcharge loads associated with the RODI tanks, which weigh approximately 300,000 pounds each.  Design required a mat slab with piers for transferring these loads below the basement level.
Tri-Services Laboratories	Albuquerque	NM	The estimated construction cost for this project is approximately $46 million and the size of the building is approximately 187,000 square feet. The ground floor will be approximately 70,000 square feet, with the three floors above being approximately 30,000 each. The new building is located on University of New Mexico-owned property west of the existing UNM Hospital Outpatient Surgery & Imaging facility and the proposed Cancer Research & Treatment Center II. The building is approximately 187,000 square feet.
Adventist Media Productions	Simi Valley	CA
Sandia Pueblo Waste Treatment Facility	Sandia Pueblo	NM
Advent Solar Photovoltaic Manufacturing Plant	Albuquerque	NM	Mesa del Sol is the new home of Albuquerque-based Advent Solar, Inc.’s research, development and manufacturing plant. The plant is designed with 13,313 square feet of dedicated office space and a manufacturing segment comprised of 74,283 square feet. The building is the first of a developing “solar cluster” at Mesa del Sol. The goal is to create a solar cluster by attracting emerging solar energy companies to Mesa del Sol’s 1,400-acre employment center, providing a potential market and showcase for solar products, and utilizing adjacent land for renewable energy demonstration projects. Advent Solar will feature use of its own solar panels for electric power generation. This LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified building reinforces Mesa del Sol’s commitment to creating a sustainable community. Advent Solar is part of Mesa del Sol, a mixed-use development incorporating approximately 1,800 acres for commercial, 5,000 acres for residential, 5,300 acres for open space and parks, and 800 acres for schools and universities use.
Albuquerque Studios	Albuquerque	NM	Chavez-Grieves is the structural engineer of record on this $85 million, 50-acre, Hollywood-style film and TV studio at Mesa del Sol, south of the Albuquerque International Sunport. Pacifica Ventures, which owns the historic Culver Studios in Culver City, Calif., is building the sprawling campus of sound stages, office and back lot space. When complete, the complex will host movie, music video, television and other productions, which would rent the indoor and outdoor back lot spaces, equipment and services. It is set to be finished in the spring 2007. Boasting more than 500,000 square feet of indoor space, the studios will have eight sound stages. The complex will also feature 78,000 square feet of office space. Albuquerque Studios will have a base employment of about 2,000, but could handle up to 4,000 people working on film projects at full capacity. Pacifica Ventures will build the first Mesa del Sol retail complex at the edge of the studios. The developer of the Albuquerque Studios project is Build New Mexico, the architect is Dekker/Perich/Sabatini Architects, and the lead contractor is Jaynes Corporation.