The project is to renovate a portion of the 2nd floor of Jenness Hall for a PFAS laboratory and a Catalysis laboratory. Renovations for the two labs are anticipated to start this summer, with substantial completion in early 2026. The design firm selected for this project is LaVallee Brensinger, and the construction manager is Landry/French Construction. $5 million in Congressionally Directed Spending secured by U.S. Sens. Collins and King at the request of UMS will come from the National Institutes of Standards and Technologies (NIST) for the construction of the PFAS laboratory and $2 million by HAF/UMS TRANSFORMS Maine College of Engineering and Computing (MCEC) for the construction of the Catalysis laboratory.