Energy Systems Integration Facility
Golden, CO

Northstar’s role on this project:

Northstar was selected as both the design-build criteria consultant and design-build owner’s representative for this groundbreaking project. The Northstar team wrote the Request for proposal, the narrative, technical performance criteria, assisted in managing the design-build selection process. We are providing owner’s representation after contract award including design-build expertise for implementation, technical design conformance reviews and managing a $2 million Award Fee Incentives program.

Client: Department of Energy and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Value: $103 Million
Design-Builder: JE Dunn Construction and Smith Group Architects

On the Boards
The Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF) will be the nation’s only facility that can conduct integrated megawatt-scale testing of all components and strategies critical to deploying renewable energy and other energy-efficiency technologies into the nation’s electric grid at utility scale.

The ESIF will be approximately 175,000 sq. ft.; the building will house laboratories as well as office space for 200-250 NREL researchers and support staff. The ESIF will also include a state-of-the-art, high-performance computing and data center that will expand NREL’s capabilities in modeling and simulation of renewable energy technologies and their integration into the existing energy infrastructure.