BOSTON – The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor has commissioned Einhorn Yaffee Prescott to provide architectural and engineering services for a major expansion in its research facilities including the new east research building.

The Jackson Laboratory is the premier institution in the world for mammalian genetic research and plays a key role in the global scientific community as the provider of critical genetic resources.

The east research building will include approximately 55,000 square feet of new space for research laboratories, offices, conference rooms and support spaces. The research laboratories will incorporate a flexible design scheme to support 16 research groups. Other research expansion of approximately 25,000 square feet of new and renovated space includes a new commons to foster interaction among scientists and expansion of genetic resources facilities.

Einhorn Yaffee Prescott, an architecture, engineering and interior design firm, specializes in historic-landmark preservation and restoration, teaching and research laboratories, technology-enhanced corporate and academic environments, college, and universities, schools and government facilities. With more than 450 employees in Albany and New York, Boston, and Washington, D.C., the firm is ranked among the six largest architectural and engineering firms in the nation by Building Design & Construction.