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Think What’s Possible
Think What’s Possible
Page is a powerfully imaginative and collaborative architecture and engineering firm: one that’s ready for today and designed for what comes next. We pair form with function, reason with emotion, and ideas with expert implementation. At Page, the potential of what’s possible is paired with the practicality of how to make it happen. Our purpose is designing places smarter, while improving the experiences of those who work, live, and learn in them. From thought to finish, Page experts—of all disciplines—see the big picture, figure the best way forward, and deliver solutions in inventive and amazing ways. Imagine that.
Page is a powerfully imaginative and collaborative architecture and engineering firm: one that’s ready for today and designed for what comes next. We pair form with function, reason with emotion, and ideas with expert implementation. At Page, the potential of what’s possible is paired with the practicality of how to make it happen. Our purpose is designing places smarter, while improving the experiences of those who work, live, and learn in them. From thought to finish, Page experts—of all disciplines—see the big picture, figure the best way forward, and deliver solutions in inventive and amazing ways. Imagine that.
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Think what’s possible
Page Serves The Following Core Markets:
Mission Critical Science / Technology
The sky’s the limit with exceptional design and teams that outperform expectations.
Imagine:
• Greater sustainability from the inside out.
• Inspiring workplaces people want to return to.
• Learning environments that attract world class students.
• Health centers designed to make care and lives better.
• Research centers that speed innovation from lab to life.
• Now you’re thinking... Let’s get to work.
Full-service, international architecture, engineering, and design leader
We pair the art and science of possibility with how to make it happen. Expect powerfully imaginative and collaborative architecture, engineering and design that makes you ready for today and what comes next. From thought to finish, Page experts—of all disciplines— think outside the box, figure the best way forward, and deliver solutions to complex projects in new, inventive and amazing ways.
This we believe. As agents for positive change, we are driven by the ideals we hold dear. In the delivery of our services, we are guided by three core values:
Page is known for their well-researched program-driven solutions aided by integrated multidisciplinary expertise and a strategic mindset. We bring global thinking and experience to bear on projects that build communities. Our portfolio reflects a commitment to visionary design, a record of innovation and fresh ideas and most importantly, demonstrated success with complex projects.
We develop a uniquely created design for every project that reflects the building type, client, need and location. We take pride in knowing that a Page project is one of the best possible solutions to the needs of its multiple stakeholders from owner to operator to neighbor.
ENGINEERING
Our in-house engineering experts lead development of the latest industry design codes and standards. Page engineers contribute to progress in safety, wellness, sustainability, energy and carbon neutrality, and increase our impact by working across disciplines. We use a combination of custom tools and Building Information Technology solutions to visualize and communicate how occupants and operations interface with complex integrated building and process systems. Adoption of advances in renewable energy, microgrids, Internet of Things and high-performance systems demonstrate our commitment to socially responsible design. Our multidisciplinary mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection and process engineering practice areas work collaboratively with design and construction partners to bring your concepts to reality.
The University of Oklahoma Biomedical Gallogly Hall / Norman, Oklahoma
INTERIORS
Page believes that well-designed interiors can be a critical force. They help clients accomplish their mission and improve the quality of people’s lives. Just like our interiors in our own offices, our clients’ interiors serve as positive, consistent visual reinforcements of their own cultural identity. By combining the skills of our interior designers with those of our architects, planners, engineers and visualization specialists, we offer our clients a range and quality of single-point responsibility found in a few other places. Our interiors services range from programming, space-planning and officing studies to the selection of furnishings, finishes and artwork.
PLANNING / URBAN DESIGN
We help our clients evolve, grow and prosper because our process is informed by research, cutting-edge technology tools and an appreciation for the unique culture of the people, organizations and places we serve. Our interdisciplinary team of master planners, urban designers, architects, landscape architects and programmers are dedicated to supporting the ongoing evolution of our urban areas, encouraging appropriate development and redevelopment suited to the particular conditions of each site we aim to transform. Through urban districts, institutional campuses, innovation districts, long range development plans, master plans, streetscapes and transit-oriented communities, our teams integrate the building blocks of community, sustainability and resilience into innovative solutions.
LAB PLANNING / DESIGN
Page specializes in challenging projects for demanding clients throughout the globe. Laboratory facilities are among the most intricate and complex projects. The unique challenges posed by highly toxic petrochemical corrosion labs, sterile environments for pharmaceutical manufacturing, biohazard high-containment suites and precise environmental control of animal laboratories are commonplace obstacles overcome by our dedicated technical team of architects and engineers every day. Page has specialists equipped with a thorough understanding of the safety standards and scientific equipment requirements foundational to the success of all laboratories.
BRANDING AND GRAPHICS
Our visual identity and experiential designers create brand identities and graphic designs that support how places and environments are experienced. The orchestration of 2-dimensional design work including typography, color, imagery, form, technology and, especially, content, forms this basis. Examples of this work include wayfinding systems, architectural graphics, signage, exhibit design, retail design and themed or branded spaces. We operate at the intersection of communications and the built environment. We provide architectural and placemaking visioning, and create overall design vocabularies that help clients hone in on the possibilities, character and nature of a project.
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STRATEGIES / ANALYTICS
To support clients before and beyond traditional professional services, we have a dedicated strategies and analytics team that develops and employs a broad array of tools, techniques and processes to help our clients make informed project decisions sometimes before the nature of or need for a facility or real estate project is confirmed. Our team members collaborate with Page and consultant specialists to clarify goals, assemble information and evaluate alternatives. The team’s understanding of business dynamics and organizational complexities allows them to efficiently and effectively facilitate productive discussions and target research. Custom data exploration and visualization differentiate our deliverables that help bring clients and their stakeholders into the evaluation process.
BUILDING SCIENCES
Page approaches sustainable design through the interdisciplinary lens of building sciences to create higher-performing, healthier, more resilient buildings. As one of the first signatories of AIA 2030 Commitment, we are invested in leading the industry towards carbonneutral buildings and advocating for resilient solutions to help our clients prepare for the future. We believe that intention requires rigor and through our data-driven and integrative process, we collaborate early and often to ensure designs are informed by our building performance analysis informs design. With experience across a wide range of environmental certification systems, our multidisciplinary team is well qualified to provide a holistic and comprehensive approach to sustainable design.
COMMISSIONING
Page recognizes the level of investment and importance of facilities that function as designed from the day they open. Our Commissioning service provides a level of confidence to owners and operators as well as minimizes costly construction rework. This is accomplished through a collaborative process that includes the building owner, design professionals and the general contractor under the guiding hand of the Commissioning Authority. As a Certified Commissioning Firm, we adhere to exacting, providing our clients support construction quality. We perform Testing, Adjusting, and Balancing in accordance with NEBB standards. As an independent testing firm, we have no affiliation with general or installation contractors.
PROCESS ENGINEERING
Page process engineers work with industrial and high technology clients to develop industrial and chemical processes to support their manufacturing needs. Through our work with advanced technology clients, we have an acute sensitivity to the need for precision, accuracy and compliance with each client’s unique production needs. We work collaboratively with clients using a comprehensive programming process to understand their manufacturing flow and process requirements, and design systems that ensure safety and manufacturing standards are met or exceeded. Our team utilizes industry standard process flow diagrams, three-dimensional modeling software and instrument specifications to determine the needed infrastructure for successful facility and process design, and equipment installation.
Science / Technology Think beyond the bench
EXPERIENCE AND SERVICES
Biocontainment
Vivaria
Instrumentation
Cleanroom
Advanced Manufacturing
Laboratory Planning
Building Assessment
Data Analytics
Fabrication Workshops
1M+
Our lab planners program and design more than one million SF of specialized research space annually.
What’s your thing? Nanofabrication, planetary science, or biomedical engineering? Or is it unraveling the mysteries of nature, from the fundamental laws of physics to the intricate workings of the human brain?
Whatever your thing, we’re interested in the relentless pursuit of knowledge. Let’s explore how data-driven solutions and rigorous design thinking can shape everything from transdisciplinary research to high-containment facilities. How can we help you push the boundaries of what’s known, tackle society’s biggest challenges, and empower your purpose?
Health
Innovative laboratory design for colleges of medicine, academic medical centers and hospitals.
Research and development continue to play an essential role in addressing the world’s greatest health challenges and in improving health outcomes. In recent years, the healthcare industry has experienced unprecedented growth, driven by an infusion of both public and private funding. Our lab and medical planners are experienced specialists in the programming and design of biomedical research, clinical and testing laboratories. Our ability to understand researcher and stakeholder needs comes from careful listening, technical knowledge, and insights regarding team-based activity, technology, and future research needs.
New York University College of Nursing College of Dentistry and Bioengineering Institute / New York, New York
Baylor College of Medicine Neurological Research Institute Center for Drug Discovery / Houston, Texas
The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School Health Learning Building / Austin, Texas
University of Houston Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine / Houston Texas
Emory University Winship Cancer Institute Lab Renovations / Atlanta, Georgia
James Madison University East Tower Health and Behavioral Studies Building / Harrisonburg, Virginia
Texas Children’s Hospital West Tower Pharmacy Renovation / Houston, Texas
Eastern Virginia Medical School Waitzer Hall / Norfolk, Virginia
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center South Campus Vivarium / Houston, Texas
University of St. Thomas Center for Science and Health Professions / Houston, Texas
College of William & Mary The McLeod Tyler Wellness Center / Dallas, Texas
University of Houston Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine / Houston, Texas
University of Houston Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine / Houston, Texas
One building, two towers, infinite possibilities in the fight to eliminate brain disease and cancer. The University of Texas Southwestern (UTSW) Medical Center is looking to positively impact countless individuals’ healthcare outcomes in the next hundred years through critical, person-centered, empathetic care.
UTSW is home to the North Texas region’s only NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center. Paired with the internationally recognized brain institute next door, the medical center’s positive patient experience was the guiding force behind the new complex’s design.
While these two disciplines function in seemingly separate spaces, the buildings work together in a cohesive, seamless design. As the public-facing arm of the project, the Outpatient Cancer Care Tower of the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center offers a welcoming, calming environment that makes patients feel comfortable and in control. The Research Tower of the Peter O’Donnell Jr. Brain Institute provides security and privacy for the researchers. In both scenarios, patient and staff flow are top priorities.
The team considered how each decision might impact the patient experience. Ease of access to treatment spaces and appropriate, secure access for staff led the programming team to think intuitively about the layout of every floor, department, and pod. The design received the stamp of approval from UTSW leadership and users, thanks largely to virtual reality, weekly visits with the client, and mutual trust.
The project transformed the EnMed building into a beacon of ingenuity. The team completely replaced the exterior façade and meticulously redesigned and renovated the interior. The exterior now features an energy-efficient, unitized glazed curtain wall system with stone and metal panels. Inside, the building offers large, reconfigurable learning studios, flexible classrooms, multidisciplinary labs, and glass-enclosed collaboration spaces.
Serving EnMed’s engineering curricula is a signature 2,471-squarefoot makerspace with reconfigurable tables, 3D printers, and a convenient machine shop. Students can use the 3D modeling and virtual creation tools in the VR and AR simulation rooms. A floor-toceiling glass partition system provides clear views of the innovation happening inside. Embedded in the glass is one of the original bank vault doors, a “vault of ideas” bridging the building’s past and future.
For the healthcare side, the medical education simulation center offers students skills-based training. The simulation suite provides a hospital environment complete with beds, mock headwalls, and integrated teaching space. Here, students work with faculty and patient actors in a life-like clinical setting.
The building also boasts a café, a 240-seat auditorium, conference spaces, and support areas. But the facility’s crown jewel is the 17th-floor board room and multifunction space, designed to attract the brightest students, world-class faculty, and generous donors.
New York University College of Nursing College of Dentistry and Bioengineering Institute
Page designed a 170,000-square-foot building that collocates NYU’s Nursing and Dentistry colleges and NYU School of Engineering to create an innovative new collaborative facility that puts education and the healthcare practice model on display. The 11-story building includes new teaching spaces, study commons, student services, research laboratories, and offices. A third-floor Learning Commons provides a unique destination for students and faculty. Floors 8-12 house approximately 22,000 square feet of new laboratory space to support the synergistically active and collaborative programs in biomaterials, biomimetics, and medical bioengineering. Page’s design employs a variety of sustainable strategies – including highperformance glazing, shading devices, natural ventilation, chilled beams, solar hot water heating, and a high albedo roof – to achieve its goal of LEED Silver Certification.
Columbia University commissioned Davis Brody Bond, a Page company in 1985 to develop a master plan for the new Audubon Research and Technology Park, now the Irving Medical Center, adjacent to Columbia and Cornell Universities’ NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Medical Center. The goal of the master plan was to promote collaborative research between Columbia University and the private industry and provide new modes of science and health care, stimulate business, create jobs, and help improve neighborhood life. The master plan envisioned a complex of three buildings.
Phase 1 is the 105,000-square-foot Mary Woodard Lasker Biomedical Research Building. The site for Phase 1 contains the Audubon Ballroom, which was built in 1912 and is notable as the site of Malcolm X’s assassination and as an important example of polychrome terracotta ornament. The existing façade along Broadway was restored, as was a portion of the Ballroom itself. The restored portions of the Audubon Ballroom incorporate the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Education Center, also designed by the firm. The Lasker Building is six stories and includes a penthouse, full cellar, and vivarium. The ground floor contains retail space, and a conference center that are shared by researchers and the community. The five floors above are outfitted for use as laboratory or office space, with the second floor also housing a portion of the community health clinic.
Phase 2 is the 175,000-square-feet Russ Berrie Medical Science Pavilion, whose primary scientific mission is to bring together investigators working on varied but interrelated aspects of research in disease prevention. The core and shell of the Pavilion was built and initially fitted out on two floors with generic research laboratories. It was Columbia’s goal to attract leading researchers with new state-ofthe-art facilities. The Berrie Pavilion now houses facilities for research in preventive medicine, particularly diabetes, cancer, and genome research. The laboratories and vivarium are designed for specific scientific disciplines, allowing for the necessary flexibility in the fastpaced world of laboratory technology.
Phase 3 is the Irving Cancer Research Center (ICRC), which adds approximately 305,000-square-feet for basic science, diseasespecific, and population-based cancer research programs for the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center (HICCC). A conceptual lab floor plan was used to develop the core and shell planning, with a robust MEP infrastructure to support future lab programs. Laboratories were programmed and designed on a floor-by-floor basis in response to specific research requirements. A vivarium was developed as major core facility in the building and includes a VAF barrier facility and a BSL-2/BSL-3 suite. In addition, the building includes a breast screening facility, computational biology, classrooms, data center, and below-grade parking.
Sam Houston State University College of Osteopathic Medicine
At a Glance
Project Size
108,000 Square Feet
Services Provided Architecture / Architect of Record / Commissioning / Conceptual Design / Contract Administration / Engineering / Branding and Graphics
The project is a 108,000-square-foot, four-story facility housing the new College of Osteopathic Medicine on an off-campus site in the Conroe, Texas area. The standalone facility sits nestled in the wooded area development on 7.3 acres of land that will serve as a medical campus and growth for the university’s future development. Site development includes 375 parking spaces with phasing scenarios for the initial Phase I development and a future 100,000-square-foot facility. Phase II construction of a garage is near completion.
The interior spaces are welcoming, with warm, rich materials incorporating wood with the exposed concrete structure. Collaborative spaces are located throughout the building for both teaching, learning and administrative uses with abundant natural light. The public art program includes a two-story tile mosaic by Amy Ellingson visible as you enter the ground floor lobby entrance. The main organizing element of the building is a central spine with views of the tree-filled courtyard. This light-filled connecting element contains an interactive grand stair linking all floors. Along this grand stair or “community edge,” there are spaces for student collaborative study areas, team rooms and alcoves, which create opportunities for student interaction and knowledge sharing. Student life is also reinforced with a shared kitchen, living room and learning commons.
The building includes spaces supporting instruction, research, academic administration, and student life. Instructional spaces include a teaching theater that seats up to 215 students and an active learning classroom that utilizes a flexible seating / table layout that can double as an event space, including an adjacent catering kitchen and buffet counters along one wall. Specialty instructional areas include Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine, gross anatomy labs, Standardized Patient and Simulation suites, as well as research labs.
Page is the prime architect on all University of Texas buildings in the Medical District. In association with SLAM Collaborative, Page designed the 86,570-square-foot Health Learning Building. As part of that project, a 7,000-square-foot renovation to the School of Nursing Building provides simulation laboratory space to serve the entire medical district.
The project includes interconnected collaboration zones, a standardized patient simulation center, a full gross anatomy lab, a 150-seat Team Based Learning Classroom, a multipurpose teaching lab for organic dissections and a cutting edge media center / commons / library. The LEED gold certified building encourages occupant health and represents best sustainability practices. The daylight-filled classrooms of the future are equipped with fully interactive electronics, monitors and power sources at every seat and every lab bench.
Team-based and cross-disciplinary medical education curriculum drove the character of the programed spaces. A tiered team-based learning auditorium serves as a campus-wide forum hosting interprofessional classes equipped for a variety of educational formats. The technologically-integrated mediated reality anatomy lab with virtual full-body touch screen tables augmenting traditional cadaver dissection was designed with infrastructure in place to support a potential doubling of the medical school class size. Additionally, the standardized patient suite containing six exam rooms planned with dual-circulation pathways highlight an “on-stage/of-stage” organizational model for standardized patient-focused education doubling as quiet study rooms.
LEED gold
Virginia Commonwealth University College of Health
Professions Building
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA
At a Glance
Project Size
154,000 Square Feet
Services Provided Architecture / Programming / Planning / Laboratory Planning / Fire Protection Engineering / Energy Analysis
The College of Health Professions Building unites Gerontology, Health Administration, Nurse Anesthesia, Occupational Therapy, Patient Counseling, Physical Therapy, Radiation Sciences, Rehab Counseling, and the Technology Center, as well as the Dean’s Office and the Virginia Center on Aging.
Flexible classrooms located throughout the building support strategic adjacencies and ease of sharing. The design enables departments to share teaching amenities and technologies, such as synchronous distance-learning classrooms; audiovisual capture of directed instruction; and observation of patient-care simulation.
The building houses a dedicated Nurse Anesthesia simulation suite, as well as one shared by all of the allied health disciplines working individually or in teams across specialties. Simulated hospital environments are provided for operating rooms, acute care patient rooms, recovery rooms, and a range of imaging spaces including a high-tech virtual linear accelerator. The therapy departments share a state-of-the-art Smart Home Apartment for training students.
The program also includes a double-height biomechanics research lab and several maker labs, where students and faculty can research, create, and test their own adaptive aids for therapy.
Rutgers University
Medical Science Building Renovation
NEWARK, NEW JERSEY
At a Glance
Project Size
656,000 Square Feet
Services Provided Architect of Record / Master Planning / Architecture / Interiors / Design Documentation / Construction Administration
As New Jersey’s leading academic medical center, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School sought to modernize its 1970’s Medical Research Building to educate the next generation of doctors and support groundbreaking research. Highlighting Rutgers’ legacy of scientific innovation, our team conceptualized a complete redesign, paying homage to the building’s original Mid-Century Modernist architecture while transforming its laboratories and workplaces for the 21st century.
The occupied, phased renovation of this 656,000-square-foot building includes transforming five floors of research laboratories to support today’s technology-enabled, flexible medical research. Thoughtfully re-imagined use of the building’s large floor plates allows natural light to penetrate new and engaging environments for teaching and research. Redesigned workspaces and shared collaboration areas encourage interdisciplinary teamwork and connect student cohorts to clinical practice and medical research. With future phase interventions, two floors of classrooms will be updated to reflect contemporary health education pedagogical trends. The revitalized building will provide state-of-the-art facilities to attract the best and brightest.
The design’s phased approach takes advantage of existing, robust infrastructure pathways. Its four central utility risers remain, enabling complete replacement of aging infrastructure and renovation of approximately half of the research floors. Façade enhancements, implemented with the corresponding floor area renovations, preserve the building’s modernist expression while significantly improving energy performance. The team conceived the design and engineering approach in a manner that allows the occupants and their sensitive research and teaching activities to continue while the renovations are underway. The first phase of the project includes a complete utility infrastructure upgrade and fit out of two laboratory floors. When completed, the revitalized Medical Science Building enables Rutgers to serve its constituents and conduct impactful research befitting its stature as a leading academic medical center.
Baylor College of Medicine
Neurological Research Institute Center for Drug Discovery
The mission of the Center for Drug Discovery at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) is to develop small molecule probes, preclinical candidates, and drugs for researchers and clinicians in the Texas Medical Center and beyond. The Center bridges the gap between academic research and pharmaceutical discovery, providing investigators with an economically viable entry point for early-stage identification of new medicines and for the study and validation of protein targets and disease mechanisms. While located at BCM, the Center is comprised of faculty from multiple institutions, including Texas Children’s Hospital and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Page programmed, planned, and designed the fit-up of raw lease space on the entire sixth floor of Texas Children Hospital’s Neurological Research Institute Building. The renovated area houses laboratory and laboratory support spaces, chemical storage rooms, enclosed and open plan offices, meeting rooms, and break/ lounge space. The layout consists of three primary laboratory zones co-locating “like” sciences/investigative activities (medicinal chemistry, central equipment and preparation, and medicinal biology), flanked by office, meeting, and amenity spaces. Each laboratory zone is populated with mobile laboratory furniture and overhead service distribution systems allowing spaces within each zone to be reconfigured as necessary. The laboratory zones are generally defined by core resources for drug discovery, structural biology, and metabolomics, including ultra-high performance liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry instrumentation, magnetic resonance systems, and tissue culture equipment, and standard biomedical laboratory equipment.
The project was built-out in two phases. The first phase, completed in 2017, provided the medicinal chemistry and central support program components. The second phase, completed in 2021, provided the biological medicine program component.
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Page’s Preservation/Modernization team master planned the repurposing of the Richards Medical Research Complex, a 20th-century landmark designed by Louis Kahn, transforming the original wet lab- and fumehood-intensive facility (with its attendant heavy HVAC requirements) into a program of computational research spaces populated by leading Principal Investigators and their support and administrative staff.
Portions of the C and D Towers were adapted to accommodate the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN) and the Center for Functional Neuroimaging (CfN). This inaugural project will serve as a model for the eventual transformation of the entire Richards Complex.
Page undertook a rigorous analysis of the building in order to understand, interpret, and where necessary adapt Kahn’s design principles to better serve the contemporary program. The signature plate-glass glazing – which no longer meets either building code or energy requirements – has been replaced with a laminated glass whose appearance is indistinguishable from the original but provides much better energy performance.
Design and Preservation Guidelines, detailing requirements for the exterior restoration and the kit of parts that is being used for the transformation of the building interiors, ensure optimum flexibility, efficiency, and consistency in the creation of interventions that are simultaneously contemporary and respective of Kahn’s original design intent.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, like many other major urban academic medical centers, is densely developed. The need for expansion of clinical, teaching, and research programs conflicted with the limits of the campus. Davis Brody Bond, a Page company updated Vanderbilt’s Master Plan and looked at creative solutions to develop building and site options within the Medical Center involving phased construction over existing buildings.
This approach led to the design of the medical research facility known as Medical Research Building IV, built over two existing occupied buildings which remained in use during construction. Phase I consisted of a four-story vertical expansion of an older laboratory. Phase II consisted of a research tower that spans over an existing auditorium building. The new research tower houses several components of the Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research.
The Epithelial Biology Center, created to support basic, translational, and clinical research in gastrointestinal cancer features biomedical research, medical student training, and clinical patient care spaces. The Vanderbilt Center for Stem Cell Biology, part of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Progenitor Cell Biology Consortium, is one of only two medical institutions in the country to play a leading role in both clinical and basic science arms of stem cell research.
Our solution provides 400,000 square feet of new, state-of-the-art biomedical research laboratories without the need to expand the Medical Center’s campus nor any major impact to the campus’ site plan and functional layout. Other benefits include optimal adjacencies for various interdisciplinary research programs, improved MEP infrastructure, and improved building efficiencies.
