Leslie (Les) Gartner has led the planning and design of biocontainment laboratories across five continents and twelve countries with WSP’s Science and Technology team. Learn more about these critically important spaces below.
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The Canadian Science Centre - Les's first level 4 lab project that set the gold standard for
containment design.
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The WSP team is currently designing a new high containment lab with the CDC in Atlanta.
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Les is also working on NASA’s Mars Sample Receiving Facility - a high containment lab that may one day safely hold extraterrestrial agents.
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Rocky Mountain Labs in Hamilton, Montana