In a Task Order Agreement with National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and a design-build partnership with SmithGroup, JE Dunn is currently delivering its first project of the agreement, the Energy Materials and Processing at Scale (EMAPS) Facility. The Task Order Agreement lasts five years and covers a wide variety of project types on the NREL campus, from ground up new construction to renovations in occupied laboratory buildings, to upgrading the campus electrical infrastructure.
EMAPS will be a new laboratory to integrate manufacturing processes at scale using broad, multi-disciplinary sciences and technologies to accelerate industry’s adoption of the future circular and clean energy economies. It will include laboratory space to study the full life cycles and supply chains for energy-relevant materials and products and will primarily support the following areas of research: electrons-to-molecules, advanced electrification, green process innovation, and advanced biology and chemical processing. These research areas will be supported by a High Bay pilot-scale process integration laboratory. It will house research from the following NREL directorates: Mechanical and Thermal Engineering Sciences (MTES), Materials, Chemical and Computer Science (MCCS), and Bio-Energy Science and Technology (BEST) programs.
