Projects & Infrastructure Modernization

A CONVERSATION WITH TODD HANCOCK

The Projects and Infrastructure Modernization Division (PIMD) is tasked with building and/or renewing the Lab’s infrastructure to meet the needs of a cutting edge and evolving research facility. PIMD’s Director, Todd Hancock, leads a group of project directors, design managers, project managers, construction managers, and coordinators to design and build world-class science facilities.

How does the Projects & Infrastructure Modernization Division (PIMD) support the Lab’s mission?

Our scope focuses on project execution, which includes upgrading the Lab’s sitewide network of utility services, updating aging buildings, and building brand-new, cutting-edge facilities needed to meet the DOE mission. We are constantly challenged to reinvent the Lab’s physical space while occupying it. It’s similar to living in a house while someone tears it down and then rebuilds it around you.

What are PIM’s top 3 or 4 priorities today?

Infrastructure is in our division name. One of our most pressing goals is to help this world-class Laboratory upgrade its aging infrastructure and facilities to enable the next generation of cutting-edge research.

Safety is an incredibly important consideration in everything that we do as a division and it will always be one of our top priorities. That includes everything from having the correct PPE to ensuring every member of a work crew understands their responsibilities. We have a good track record but we cannot take our focus off this objective.

Another top priority for us is reliability. PIMD must have reliability as an organization. Our scope of work in the next 10, 20 years is huge and we have to deliver those projects on time, on budget, and as designed. As a leader my goal is to help PIMD develop the capabilities and the working relationships to successfully deliver the significant portfolio of projects that we will be executing at the Lab over the coming decade.

Who do you partner with at the Lab to be successful?

PIMD project managers partner with Division Directors and Research Areas to implement projects while carefully considering factors critical to the Lab’s operating and user facilities. My team works closely with the Strategic Infrastructure Planning Office and with the Facilities Division to execute the construction project needs for the Laboratory.