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March 2009

Brookhaven National Laboratory Project Awarded to Torcon

UPTON, N.Y. -- The U. S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory announced its selection of Torcon for construction of the conventional facilities at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II.) Torcon was chosen under a Best Value procurement and will construct the building that will house the accelerator ring, the largest component of the machine. This phase of the facility's construction is expected to last through 2012.

Brookhaven's current light source — the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) &mdash is one of the world's most widely used scientific facilities. NSLS-II will be a new state-of-the-art, medium-energy electron storage ring (3 billion electron-volts) designed to deliver world-leading intensity and brightness, and will produce x-rays more than 10,000 times brighter than the NSLS.

By providing a wide range of high resolution probes for nanoscience, NSLS-II will enable scientists to focus on some of the nation's most important scientific challenges at the nanoscale level, including clean, affordable energy, molecular electronics, and high-temperature superconductors. NSLS-II will also enable studies of the smallest crystals in structural biology.

Torcon's $170,000,000 contract encompasses the structures and systems necessary to enable installation and operation of the accelerator and experimental beamlines. The project consists of&mdash

Ring Building (240,000 sq. ft.) to house the accelerator and associated beamlines
Injection Building (24,000 sq. ft.) for the compact booster and linac
an RF Building (10,600 sq. ft.)
five two story Service Buildings (53,600 sq. ft. ) containing mechanical and electrical equipment

The NSLS-II is funded by the Department of Energy Office of Science.

For more information about the NSLS-II project, visit the website at www.bnl.gov/nsls2