The Austin Company planned, designed, engineered and constructed a laboratory for quality control and environmental testing at Georgia Gulf Corporation's chemical plant in Plaquemine, Louisiana. The new facility consolidates widely disbursed laboratory spaces and provides quality control and environmental testing for chemicals produced at the plant. The outside walls of the laboratory building have an exterior insulated finish system which has the appearance of stucco. Colors were chosen to match Georgia Gulf's corporate colors of green and gray.
Windows facing north allow natural light into the main laboratory areas.
The laboratory occupies a prominent location at the plant, just inside the main gate. The Austin Company provided programming, preliminary design and project definition, engineering and construction services for the new facility. Georgia Gulf, based in Atlanta, Georgia, is a major manufacturer of chlorovinyls and aromatics.