Skanska Delivers $85M Metro DC Life Science Building

March 13, 2025

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The facility expands Mason University’s SciTech campus along Virginia’s tech corridor.

Skanska has successfully delivered the George Mason University Life Sciences and Engineering Building on the Prince William County Science and Technology Campus.

This $85.4 million, four-story, 132,000-square-foot facility embodies Skanska’s specialty of creating purpose-built spaces catering to educational institutions’ needs.

It sits immediately north of GMU’s Institute for Advanced Biomedical Research. There are another 5,000 assignable square feet of backfill at Katherine G. Johnson Hall and Discovery Hall.

The building houses advanced research laboratories, specialized teaching facilities and flexible innovation zones that are designed to facilitate groundbreaking work in fields such as bioengineering, bioinformatics and computational life sciences.

The structure is designed to support a growing academic community and features instructional labs, experiential learning spaces, classrooms and offices. The building serves the diverse needs of GMU’s Colleges, including Engineering and Computing, Science, Education and Human Development, and Visual and Performing Arts. The facility caters to STEM-H disciplines, supporting students and faculty engaged in cutting-edge research and education.

Skanska’s project pipeline

Skanska is currently working on projects totaling more than $640 million across Maryland, Washington, D.C., Virginia and North Carolina.

Similarly, in Baltimore, a life science building opened in January when Wexford Science & Technology and the University of Maryland, Baltimore, launched 4MLK, an eight-story, 400,000-square-foot center. The facility is part of the university’s BioPark.

In August, nearby in the Rosslyn-Ballston corridor of Arlington, Va., Skanska completed 3901 Fairfax, a 201,000-square-foot office building. Skanska was the $128 million project’s general contractor.

And last September, the New York City Economic Development Corp. selected Skanska as the construction manager for the first phase of the Science Park and Research Campus Kips Bay. The project aims to transform an entire city block at East 25th Street and First Avenue on Hunter College’s Brookdale Campus into a 2 million-square-foot hub for life science innovation and education, featuring academic, public health and research space. The anticipated contract award is expected to be about $1.6 billion, with construction scheduled to begin at the end of this year.