Awards
Project Management Awards Presented to Office of Science Projects
April 2023
The Energy Sciences Capability (ESC) project received a 2023 Department of Energy Project Management Achievement Award at the 2023 DOE Project Management Workshop in Washington DC on April 12, 2023. The DOE Achievement Award is presented to an individual and/or team who have demonstrated significant results in completing a project within cost and schedule.
Additionally, the Office of Science honored two additional successful SC projects that completed in FY 2022—the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) and Energy Sciences Network (ESnet6).
Energy Sciences Capability (ESC) Project
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
The ESC project team successfully delivered a 140,000 GSF collaborative, modern, sustainable, flexible, and signature high-performance research laboratory building on the PNNL campus. This $93 million project features 52 state-of-the-art laboratory modules, 200 workstations, and modern collaboration space, addressing a wide range of multidisciplinary goals. The project exceeded the High-Performance Sustainable Building criteria, largely due to the sustainability award-winning Heat Transfer Building, which received the 2022 DOE sustainability award for “Outstanding Sustainability Program/Project.” The success of the ESC project is credited to the experienced and dedicated project management team and design/build partners, who delivered this signature project on-time and under budget.
ESC Building at PNNL
The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB)
Michigan State University
Designed to be the most powerful heavy-ion accelerator, FRIB enables scientists to make discoveries about the properties of short-lived nuclei not commonly found on Earth known as rare isotopes with implications in nuclear astrophysics, fundamental interactions, and with applications for society, including in medicine, homeland security, and industry. FRIB consists of a four-building complex that extends 32 feet underground and joins an underground tunnel 570 feet long, 70 feet wide, and 13 feet high. The tunnel houses a superconducting linear accelerator capable of delivering a 400 kW at beam energies in excess of 200 MeV/nucleon. This new SC User Facility has an active user community of over 1,800, accelerates beams comprised of stable atomic nuclei from hydrogen to uranium to half the speed of light, and a fragment separator uses 13 superconducting magnet elements to select isotopes and sends them to the experimental area where detectors measure their unique properties or interaction with other nuclei. The project team is commended for their ingenuity and outstanding planning to successfully complete the project within budget and on schedule. FRIB is a proud and extraordinary achievement for DOE and the Nation.
FRIB’s 400kW SRF linac. The heavy-ion accelerator comprises 46 cryomodules.
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet6)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
The ESnet project team successfully deployed a high-performance networking system for DOE/SC, as part of the Advanced Scientific and Computing Research (ASCR) program’s ESnet Facility Program, with the network reliability and capabilities required to meet the evolving needs of the scientific community. This project provides the SC research community with world-leading high-performance networking and positions the Nation to remain at the forefront of scientific discovery. The success of the ESnet project is credited to the exceptional skill, expertise, and innovation of the project management team who delivered this exciting project ahead of schedule and under budget.
ESnet is DOE's global high-performance science research network, reifying the vision of scientific progress completely unconstrained by the physical location of instruments, people, computational resources, or data.
