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Pullman facility expected to be completed in 2021
The College of Veterinary Medicine at Washington State University, in Pullman, has started construction of a $61.9 million facility that will be occupied by the college's Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory. The laboratory will be located in a 62,000-square-foot new wing of the Paul G. Allen Center for Global Animal Health, says Charlie Powell, spokesman for the college.
Bouten Construction Co., of Spokane, is the contractor on the new wing, and the Seattle office of Perkins+Will designed the project.
Powell says WADDL currently occupies just over 15,000 square feet in Bustad Hall, a building near the Allen Center.
"It is not an efficient system to walk potentially dangerous samples through the building over to another building, where our Biosafety Level 3 laboratoiy is," Powell says.
A biosafety level is a set of precautions required to...