Maine researcher The Jackson Laboratory on Tuesday picked Centerbrook Architects and Planner of Centerbrook, Conn. and Tsoi/Kobus & Associates of Cambridge, Mass. to plan and design the genomic medicine facility in Farmington.
Jackson Labs is building a $1.1 billion personalized medicine laboratory at the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington as part of the Bioscience Connecticut project, seeking to make the state a leader in biomedical research.
Centerbrook and TSA are charged with planning and designing the 173,000 square-foot JAX Genomic Medicine facility on a 17-acre site, with the facility opening in 2014. Jackson Labs picked the two architectural firms because of their expertise in scientific research space and environmentally-friendly building practices.
The JAX Genomic Medicine facility will house 300 biomedical research, technicians and support staff in advanced computing facilities and labs.
