FDA Laboratory FDA Laboratory Food and Drug Administration's largest regional laboratory on York College campus in Jamaica. Testing of products for government approval.
Design build, fast track.
The facade of the award-winning building is red brick and glass to match other campus buildings. Steel column bays, eight feet wide, were created to isolate the pedestrian corridors from the laboratories. The corridors have their own steel frames that arrest vibrations traveling along the beams. The largest FDA laboratory in the country except for headquarters in Rockville, Maryland, it is used to test pharmaceutical, cosmetic and food products for government approval, including samples arriving at nearby Kennedy International Airport.