A year after construction started, an off-site research center for the Savannah River National Laboratory, “looks like a building now” and should open in 2025, a Department of Energy manager in South Carolina said Monday.
The Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative, the new 60,000-square-foot building at the University of South Carolina-Aiken should be occupied “a year from now,” said Mike Budney, who heads the DOE Office of Environmental Management at the Savannah River Site. Budney addressed a meeting of the Governor’s Nuclear Advisory Council.
The modern facility, about 20 miles from the Savannah River Site, will provide DOE with an “innovation hub” site to easily collaborate with outside entities without getting them badged to go inside the DOE fence, agency officials have said.
The $50-million Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative is being built by an affiliate of North Wind Group. North Wind last week posted an overview of the facility, saying it is 60% complete.
