The Agriculture Research Service's Bee Research Laboratory, which is leading USDA's efforts to find the cause of Colony Collapse Disorder, will soon have a new home. The Bee Research Laboratory will join most of ARS' Environmental Management and Byproducts Utilization Laboratory in what is now known as Building 306 at USDA's Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in Beltsville, Maryland.
But first, repairs must be made. To that end a construction contract for $12.4 million, funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, has been signed to provide critical deferred maintenance to equip the historic laboratory building to do cutting-edge research. BARC Director Joseph Spence says with these repairs, Building 306 will be more environmentally efficient, and research programs will be more effective in their renewed facilities.
The building was built in the 1930s to house research projects formerly conducted at USDA's Arlington Farm and subsequently moved to Beltsville to make way for the Pentagon. The building is an historic example of Georgian Revival architecture.
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