Burns & McDonnell to Build $12M Power Supply Building at Technical Area-55
NS&D Monitor
3/27/2015
Burns & McDonnell, a Kansas City-based architecture, engineering and construction company, recently won a $12 million contract to build a nuclear class building that will house a pair of redundant power supply systems at Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Technical Area-55, and company officials are hoping the win is the first of many for the firm. Burns & McDonnell recently received Nuclear Quality Assurance-1 certification from the Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Administration, allowing it to compete for nuclear construction work across the weapons complex and in commercial nuclear projects. Burns & McDonnell CEO Greg Graves called the contract a “game-changing win.” The NQA-1 certification means that Burns & McDonnell can supply engineering and construction services for safety functions at DOE nuclear facilities.
The new safety class building will be constructed over 18 months and will consist of nuclear-qualified concrete, HVAC, electrical systems and two redundant safety class Uninterruptible Power Supply systems. “Burns & McDonnell‘s success obtaining this contract at Los Alamos adds another capable contractor to a very limited field of firms able to compete for possible openings in the nuclear facility design and construction market for DOE,” Burns & McDonnell Federal Business Development Manager Willie Clark III said in a statement.
