SNOLAB Status, Prospects

SNOLAB is a new underground facility being developed adjacent to the SNO experiment. The new facility will provide twice the space available for deep underground experiments over the existing SNO installation. In contrast to other underground facilities, the entire space will be maintained in a clean room condition and much of the design has focused on establishing clean interfaces between the laboratory and the mine environment. All of the space will be under a flat overburden of 6000 mwe. Letters of Interest have been received from about 20 projects interested in locating at the new laboratory and these have helped to define the design criteria for the facility. This talk will outline the progress in constructing the laboratory and discuss the developing scientific programme.