This project consisted of the construction of the 2-story, 35,000-square-foot NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) Marine Resource Headquarters Building, including a 3,700-square-foot Maintenance Building (Pole Bam) on the property of the Nissequouge State Park in Kings Park, NY. The project site is approximately 7 acres.

The new headquarters operates the state’s only U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-certified shellfish microbiology laboratory to ensure that the more than one million acres of shellfish growing areas throughout New York’s marine waters meet the stringent requirements of the National Shellfish Sanitation Program (NSSP). The lab must complete FDA-approved proficiency testing twice per year to maintain its FDA certification and is evaluated by the FDA every three years for NSSP compliance and recertification.