MI-SWACO
Laboratory, Financial Center

KINGHAM • DALTON • WILSON is providing design/build services on two projects for M-I SWACO’s World Headquarters in Houston, Texas.

The Second Floor Financial Center includes 21,000 sf of new office space on top of the exisiting structure to match the exterior of the present building. The interiors are suitably built-out and corporately designed. The existing single-story facility remained occupied during the entire construction of the new space above. A state-of-the-art mechanical cooling system can be monitored and controlled from any computer anywhere in the world. The construction is being completed without interrupting existing operations.

The 27,000 sf Applied Engineering Laboratory is a tilt-wall facility with exterior design that blends in with the meticulously landscaped corporate campus. The facility will serve as the new Mud Training Laboratory for M-I SWACO’s new field engineers with over 35 work stations fabricated from steel casework and epoxy countertops for long term durability. Safety features include emergency eyewash stations and showers. Other areas feature computer work stations with electrostatic discharge surfaces, counter-top fume hoods, walk-in fume hoods and an island exhaust canopy. There is significant mechanical, electrical and plumbing to accomodate the labs, weld shop and testing equipment.

M-I SWACO is a worldwide company representing a wide array of business involved in drilling, reservoir drill-in, completion fluids, and associated services for the petroleum industry.