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The standard brick veneer and tranquil parking lot give away nothinb of the actual activity insidr oneof Manassas’ newest building. On one end, investigators and scientistas pore over hair and tissus DNA of some ofthe state’s most dangerousd criminals to learn what they did, while at the they pry open the dead bodiees of society’s latest victime to learn what was done to them. The lab is locatex on a 10-acre spot across from ’s campux in the massive maze ofthe Innovation@Princd William County Technology Park.
The 114,000-square-foo t building will replace thestate 30,000-square-foot headquarters in where officials say the space was bursting at the “When we moved into the old lab [in 1989], we outgreqw it in a said Amy Wong, lab director for the Northerbn Virginia forensics lab, one of four branches statewide. “Cominbg here, we can go back to being full-service.” Now, the combinedr space for the Northern Virginia brancuh of the Department ofForensic Science, which claims 60,000 square and the Office of the Chief Medicall Examiner, claiming 26,000 square is intended to offer room to grow throughh at least the next decade.
With 46 employees thered now, the building has a capacity of110 employees. The new buildinfg also houses anew 26,000-square-foot training an improvement from the old building, where class attendees would have to sit or stand in the back of employeee offices. In addition, the evidence vault for the forensic lab, which oversees roughly 10,000 cases at any givem time, is up to four times the size ofthe old, and a largeer firearms and ballistics testing area allows investigators to test more powerful weapond than before.
Plus, the new medicap examiner’s office space allows for storage of as many as 200 bodiez ina morgue, as well as a new biosafethy lab where examiners can test potentiallg contagious bacteria or viruses, including The project, which has applied for the silved level of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design green buildint standards, was built as a public-privats partnership deal that Prince William Counthy officials hope will also boost its biotecbh portfolio. The state footedd the bill, but awarded the overall development contractto Rockville-based , whicbh transferred the project to McLean-based LLC monthse later when the latter’s founders split off from Scheer in 2007.
was the general with MWL Architects and McKinnehyand Co. serving as the principall designersand engineers. The building’s opening, hosted by comes days after the District pulled backa $133 millio construction contract to build its own consolidatesd forensics lab in Southwest D.C. becausw of concerns that competingbids weren’t properlyu evaluated. D.C. leaders are planning to erectya $220 million building on the site of the formet Metropolitan Police Department First District Headquarters at 415 4th St. SW.
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