Architect-Engineer Firm Selected for Main National Ignition Facility Building.LIVERMORE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 21, 1995--Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Associate Director for Lasers E. Michael Campbell Michael Shane Campbell CNZM (born February 23, 1969) is a New Zealand golfer who is best-known for having won the 2005 US Open and the richest prize in golf, the £1,000,000 HSBC World Match Play Championship, in the same year. He is a member of the European Tour. announced the selection of Ralph M. Parsons Company as architect-engineer for the main Laser & Target Area Building (LTAB LTAB Local Training and Adjustment Board (Canada) LTAB Louder Than A Bomb (teen poetry festival) LTAB Line Test Access Bus LTAB Louisville Technology Acronym Bee LTAB Lodgers Tax Advisory Board ) in the proposed National Ignition Facility The National Ignition Facility, or NIF, is a high-energy, high-power laser research device under construction at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in Livermore, California. complex. The Laboratory will enter into negotiations with Parsons, which should result in the award of a sub-contract for the LTAB architect-engineer. No contract with the architect-engineer will be let until the project has been approved and funded by Congress. "The selection of an architect-engineer is the first formal procurement action that starts our partnering with industry," said Campbell. "We are very pleased the Ralph M. Parsons Company will be with us as we start this journey toward the realization of the NIF NIF See: Note issuance facility . With proven large facility design experience, the Parsons Company is eminently qualified to assume the role of A-E A-E, AE above-elbow; see under amputation. ." The flagship company of the Parsons Corporation, Ralph M. Parsons Company is headquartered in Pasadena, Calif. The firm is noted for its excellence in design of unique and first-of-its-kind R&D facilities, as well as very large conventional construction projects. These range from a laser facility for TRW TRW The Real World (TV reality show) TRW The Right Way TRW Tactical Reconnaissance Wing TRW The Retriever Weekly (University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD) TRW Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc Corporation in Southern California to an entire city in Saudi Arabia. (Editors: A corporate profile of the Parsons company is available on request.) The NIF will be housed in a complex of structures. LTAB will be, by far, the largest structure, and it is this building for which Parsons has been selected A-E. In addition, Albert C. Martin & Associates has been selected as the A-E for the smaller Optical Assembly Building. The process for selecting an architect-engineer began in January 1995. A rigorous evaluation criteria was established that included experience in such areas as constructing clean rooms, precision thermal control and vibration isolation of large buildings. A multi-lab selection committee, including representatives from Sandia National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) (previously known at various times as Site Y, Los Alamos Laboratory, and Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory) is a United States Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratory, managed and operated by Los Alamos National & Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: see Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. (body) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - (LLNL) A research organaisatin operated by the University of California under a contract with the US Department of Energy. , participated in the selection. The next major procurement milestone will be the selection of the construction manager. Livermore is the preferred Department of Energy site for construction of the giant laser, but the building design will not preclude other sites. CONTACT: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Craig Savoye, 510/422-9919 or savoye1@llnl.gov |
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