Broward County’s Medical Examiner’s Facility, Laboratory (Medico-legal) and Forensic Sciences Laboratories and Offices

Broward County engaged LEO A DALY to provide comprehensive master planning and predesign services, architecture, lab planning, and interior design services for its combined multi-story facility for the County medical examiner office and sheriff’s office forensic crime laboratory. The secure building will include:

• Mapping workflows and critical adjacencies with considering lab certifications and accreditations sought to be maintained or integrated
• Toxicology & chemistry instrumentation labs
• Autopsy labs & de-comp autopsy stations
• Drug analysis, drug toxicology, and agricultural biology analysis labs
• BSL-2 Level labs (biology and micro-biology and extraction labs)
• Pathology, anthropology, & tissue recovery labs
• Investigations and trauma services suites
• Narcotics and bio-logicals storage meeting temp, humidity, security and credentialling requirements
• Secure sally port
• Evidence control and crime scene intake/evidence collection labs
• Serology, latent prints, firearms and controlled substance labs
• The firearms lab includes a live ammunition firing range and ballistic water tank
• Secure, 225-space parking garage to store staff and department vehicles.