A Day & Zimmermann division has received an $18 million contract to renovate facilities at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee that will store a new device intended to help researchers develop fusion reactor materials.
The Material Plasma Exposure eXperiment Facilities Enhancement project will mark the first government sector work for D&Z’s maintenance and construction division, the company said Tuesday.
UT-Battelle, the joint venture that runs ORNL for the Department of Energy, enlisted D&Z to be the project’s general contractor.
The company will carry out the work on two buildings where the MPEX tool and support equipment will be placed.