Vermont Lab Receives AIA Vermont Award of Excellence

December 9, 2022

The Vermont Agriculture and Environmental Laboratory (VAEL) was one of five award winners at the annual meeting of AIA-Vermont on December 9, 2022. It is the second AIA award for the Vermont laboratory, which was also recognized for architectural excellence at the AIA New England Design Awards in 2020.

Located on the Vermont Tech campus in Randolph Center, Vermont, the facility sets a new standard of operational and material sustainability for the State of Vermont. After years spent working in temporary labs scattered all over the state, the new building includes numerous chemistry testing labs, a weights and measures unit, an animal pathology lab that includes a necropsy suite, a forest biology unit that houses an extensive specimen collection, and a biology area with a BSL 2+ lab.

The project was a joint effort between Freeman French Freeman and the Boston office of the global architecture and engineering firm, Cannon Design.

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