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KBR awarded construction contract for North Carolina’s State Laboratory of Public Health and medical examiner’s office

February 17, 2010 By: NCTechNews Category: General News

(Raleigh, N.C.) KBR (NYSE: KBR) today announced that its Building Group has been awarded a $52 million contract by the State of North Carolina Department of Health & Human Services for construction of a new combined facility for the State Public Health Laboratory and Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Raleigh, N.C.

The anticipated 220,000-square-foot facility will consist of a single building with separate wings for the Public Health Laboratory and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. State-of-the-art analytical laboratories will replace existing ones that are more than 30 years old. The Building Group’s Raleigh office is responsible for this project, which is scheduled to begin in February 2010. O’Brien/Atkins Associates, PA is the architect of record.

“KBR’s Building Group continues to secure project awards that allow the company to utilize its broad ranging expertise to deliver value to our clients,” said Luther Cochrane, Senior Vice President, KBR and Chairman of the Building Group. “I’m confident the Building Group will deliver the high quality construction management services to the State of North Carolina that our clients have come to expect.”

KBR is a global engineering, construction and services company supporting the energy, hydrocarbon, government services, minerals, civil infrastructure, power and industrial markets. For more information, visit www.kbr.com.

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