DSU Kirkwood COVID-19 Testing Lab
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a safer Delaware.
Delaware’s New Castle County teamed up with Delaware State University to use $5 million in CARES Act funding to establish a COVID-19 testing lab facility at the University’s Kirkwood Highway site. The lab provides less expensive, higher capacity testing capabilities in New Castle County, which has the highest COVID-19 positivity of the state’s three counties. This critical investment in the lab established a diagnostic facility for inexpensive COVID-19 testing in the short-term. The lab can later be adapted to conduct different diagnostic testings for vendors such as New Castle County, ChristianaCare, and more when COVID-19 is finally eliminated. As a bonus, the new lab created 6-10 biosciences jobs.
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trust with our clients.
“When we were granted the funding to build a COVID lab, it came with strings attached. We needed to complete the work in record speed or lose our funding. We chose EDiS because of our confidence in them. And they delivered.”
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under a strict deadline.
As the construction manager on this 4,900 SF job, EDiS Company saw an opportunity to quickly bring better testing to the Delaware community as a whole. Given only five weeks to do so, the most extraordinary part of the project process was the extremely quick turnaround time. Project Manager Vinnie Colonna worked alongside the well established architect firm StudioJAED to see that demolition and then installation of all new mechanical equipment, walls, plumbing, flooring, ceilings, paint, and roof went off without a hitch. The project was officially completed on December 15 of 2020 while testing began in January 2021. EDiS Company is proud to have built such an important structure for DSU and New Castle County during such troubled times.
1 of 6 DSU COVID Testing Lab Meeting Space
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StudioJAED
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StudioJAED
