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Replicating eco-friendly stone architecture: the new Georgia Public Health Laboratory in Waycross, GA, features an exterior facade of Rubble Stone--including scrap material--to mimic the look of its "sister" facility in Decatur, GA.

Publication: Stone World
Publication Date: 01-FEB-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Construction of a new Georgia Public Health Laboratory (GPHL) in Waycross, GA, was recently completed, and the building was designed to be a "sister" facility to the main Public Health Laboratory in Decatur, GA. As a result, the new structure is similar in both and...

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...physical appearance internal design so that if the Decatur facility were to become non-functional, staff and equipment could be transported into comparable space at this alternate location, and resume research with minimal retraining time. And to mimic the architecture of the original building, Rubble Stone--comprised of granite pieces that included scrap material and byproducts from other stoneworking processes--was employed for the exterior facade of the 23,840-square-foot Waycross facility.

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