CO-LABS champions the brilliant scientific discoveries of Colorado's 30+ federally-funded research labs and institutes.
Mission
CO-LABS educates the public, businesses, educational organizations, and government entities about the value of the federally funded laboratories, creates connections between these sectors, and supports retention and expansion of Colorado's scientific resources.
Vision
Advancing Colorado's global competitiveness through an interactive, widely supported community of federally funded laboratories, universities, and business.
The CO-LABS consortium includes Colorado federal research laboratories, research universities, state and local governments, economic development organizations, private businesses and nonprofit organizations. It conducts economic analysis, encourages technology collaboration and provides education programming. Colorado’s research laboratories are often called upon to solve state, national, and global issues. CO-LABS plays an important role in bringing together the collective research and development expertise from Colorado.
CO-LABS Activities
We collect and analyze data to understand the scientific and economic value of federally-funded research labs in Colorado. According to a study completed in 2016 by the CU-Boulder Leeds School of Business for CO-LABS, federal labs in Colorado together with their affiliates contributed $2.6 billion to the state economy in fiscal years 2014-2015 and accounted for more than 17,000 direct and indirect jobs. READ MORE>>>
We inform the public about what the federal labs do and their scientific and economic value to Colorado. We promote the work of those federal research labs in COlorado and provide information about technology transfer, testing facilities and scientific specializations. Read what people say about our tours>>>
Facilitates interactions between Colorado’s federal labs, universities, and its businesses to enhance the potential for new partnerships, technology transfer, and job creation. See our lab tour schedule>>>
We Host the annual Governor’s High-Impact Research Awards celebration to recognize the global research impact of Colorado-based federal scientists. See the most recent winners>>>
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Established in 2007, CO-LABS is a tax exempt 501c3 that relies on donations from its partners and the public to fund its activities. To find out more about becoming a CO-LABS partner contact Executive Director Dan Powers at 720-389-0455 or dan@co-labs.org.
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In Colorado, GSA owns 89 federal buildings totaling 6.79 million rental square feet (RSF) and it leases approximately 4.08 million RSF in 157 buildings for a total of 10.877 million RSF of workspace. Approximately 274 GSA employees manage and maintain this federal workspace, the majority of which is office and warehouse space. The primary tenants include:
Significant GSA-owned and managed buildings in Colorado are listed below.
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The Denver Federal Center (DFC) has a long and colorful past dating back to World War II. This video tells the historic story of a cattle ranch turned ammunition plant turned thriving federal office complex. A specific focus in this story is on new projects that are setting the framework for an exciting 20-plus year master plan for the 65-acre campus. Through this project, GSA sold land that is helping provide more than 2,000 new jobs to the community as well as plans for new public transportation. Throughout the video, a common theme of sustainability emerges that demonstrates the commitment of GSA's vision of the DFC becoming the most sustainable campus by the year 2020.
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