AIDC and WLEW construction site aerial view.

AIDC and Wright Lab Exploration

Enhancing our current capabilities, supporting our mission, and enabling innovation.

Development for Science at Yale

Since June 2024, Wright Lab has been under construction as part of Yale’s Upper Science Hill Development program (USHD). The USHD includes an addition to Wright Lab (Wright Lab Exploration Wing), a new Advanced Instrumentation Development Center (AIDC), connecting research instrumentation efforts across the University, and a new Physical Sciences and Engi neering Building (PSEB). The complex has a footprint bordered on three sides by Edwards Street, Prospect Street, and Whitney Avenue. The first phase of construction will finish in Summer 2026, when the Wright Lab Exploration Wing and the AIDC will open. Construction of the entire complex is expected to be completed in 2030.

Architect drawing of proposed entrance lobby to AIDC.

Supporting innovation…

Wright Lab has provided an advanced fabrication facility and design support for custom instrumentation within the Yale community since 2018.

The new Yale Advanced Instrumentation Development Center (AIDC) is currently under construction as part of the Upper Science Hill Development. The AIDC builds upon the strong tradition of instrumentation and fabrication established at Wright Lab, and will continue to support on-site instrumentation development for Wright Lab, as well as for research groups across campus. The AIDC is a hub for research instrumentation efforts at Yale to facilitate cross-cutting ideation and innovation and will house several technical cores including: advanced prototyping, machining, electronics, and CAD design and engineering support.

The AIDC is scheduled to open in Fall 2026.

Image from P5 report illustrating a variety of different fields of science in abstract form.

…and exploration

The Wright Lab Exploration Wing (WLEW) will also open in August 2026. The WLEW houses state-of-the-art laboratories for research undertaken by the Caines, Jack Harris, Havener, Heeger, Lamoreaux, Maruyama, Moore, and Newburgh groups; as well as offices and spaces for meetings and Wright Lab programs.

WLEW will enable Wright Lab’s exploration in a broad range of scientific topics, including astrophysics and cosmology, elementary particles, neutrinos and fundamental symmetries, relativistic heavy ions, and quantum science and sensing.

Construction Updates & Photos