The objective of this requirement is for the provision of Janitorial Services at the Radiation Protection Building (RPB).
The Radiation Protection building was built in three distinct parts, the first of which, the relatively small, rectangular building in the southeast corner of the site was built in or around 1960. The second part, a much larger than the original building, addition was added a few years later in the mid 1960's, and the final part an even larger addition was added in the early 1990's.
The Radiation Protection Building was originally a brick structure. This oldest section of the building was built in the furthest corner of the site from other Federal Government buildings in the Confederation Heights area due to the low level radioactive material used in experiments. The building was expanded in about 1965 by the addition of the much larger laboratory facility. The "old" area of the building consists of these first two parts of the building.
The "new" area is the more modern laboratory addition built in the early 1990's. The new addition to the building included several new specialty laboratory areas including a microwave laboratory as well as an acoustic chamber.
