City of Nixa Wastewater Treatment Plant laboratory building

Location: Nixa

Project owner: City of Nixa

Contractor: John T. Jones of Fargo, N.D.

Estimated cost: $300,000

Estimated completion date: Spring 2003

This building is approximately 2,800 square feet. Features include a state-of-the-art laboratory facility and computer room. The laboratory has modern testing equipment and cabinetry with solid surface countertops throughout.

A break room and handicapped-accessible locker rooms with showers also are provided. The building material includes a standing-seam metal roof, insulated aluminum operable windows, ground and split-faced accent masonry walls, and rough-sawn timber posts and beams at the entries. The lab building will be one of several structures and pavilions of similar materials, which will provide a common theme among the plant's facilities.