  A new tagged photon beam facility is being constructed in experimental Hall-D
at Jefferson Lab as a part of the 12 GeV upgrade program. The 9 GeV
linearly-polarized photon beam will be produced via coherent Bremsstrahlung
using the CEBAF electron beam, incident on a diamond radiator. The GlueX
experiment in Hall-D will use this photon beam to search for and study the
pattern of gluonic excitations in the meson spectrum produced through
photoproduction reactions with a liquid hydrogen target. Recent lattice QCD
calculations predict a rich spectrum of hybrid mesons, that are formed by
exciting the gluonic field that couples the quarks. A subset of these hybrid
mesons are predicted to have exotic quantum numbers which cannot be formed from
a simple $q\bar{q}$ pair, and thus provide an ideal laboratory for testing QCD
in the confinement regime. In these proceedings the status of the construction
and installation of the GlueX detector will be presented, in addition to
simulation results for some reactions of interest in hybrid meson searches.
