Page is a full-service architecture, engineering, and design firm committed to advancing the world through performance-based design. With 1500+ employees and offices in 20 cities, we deliver tailored solutions and research-backed insights that create lasting impact for clients and communities.
Architecture, Engineering, Innovation, Experience—this is Performance by Design.
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. Visit our website at pagethink.com
Engineering. A historical part of Page’s services, and a critical part.
In the mid-1900s, Page was one of the first architectural firms in the nation to integrate in-house engineering design services, which was an innovative approach for a single design organization. Today, Page engineers are responsible for designing interdependent mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, communication, civil, structural and process engineering systems for a wide range of projects. We have staff dedicated to each area of specialty to ensure high levels of expertise. Relying on a single point of architectural and engineering design responsibility allows Page to provide its clients with a higher level of coordination and clarity than is otherwise achievable.
Our engineers work on projects which vary in complexity and innovation, ranging from office buildings to academic institutions to healthcare buildings to wafer fabrication facilities. Our team members provide engineered systems that serve multiple types of settings, and our engineers are well-versed in stand-alone building system design as well as system integration design for large campuses.
While our clients demand outstanding engineering and architecture, our design professionals also are perpetually mindful of the reliability, security, maintenance and aesthetic characteristics that define these facilities as well. We consider whole-picture factors such as siting, unique environmental influences, resource access and more. As a result, several of the facilities we have designed can be categorized as some of the most energy efficient facilities in their particular class.
RagingWire Data Center / Garland, Texas
Mechanical and Plumbing Engineering
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Sustainability
Life Cycle Cost Analysis
System Efficiency Studies
Central Plant Design
Medical Gases Systems
Building Information Modeling (BIM)
Project Management
Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling
Pipe Stress Analysis
Wastewater Treatment Systems
Water Use Reduction
Water Reclaim
Plumbing Fixtures / Interiors Coordination
Fire Protection and Life Safety Systems
MAJOR
INDUSTRIES SERVED
Electric Vehicles:
Focus on Electric Vehicle and battery manufacturing facilities
Semiconductor:
Focus on Clean rooms and Semiconductor manufacturing facilities
High Rise Construction:
Focus on Multi-story Office and Residential Buildings and LEED certified projects
Healthcare:
Focus on Hospitals and Laboratories facilities including Healthcare products manufacturing
Data & Telecom:
Focus on Data Centers, Web Services, IoT, and energy usage modeling
Education:
Focus on Campuses and Master Planning
The Page team includes a diverse team of Mechanical and Plumbing (MP) Designers and Engineers, who provide system designs for a wide range of projects around the world. Whether it’s calculating the energy savings gained from smart glass technology in a downtown high-rise, implementing controls for environmental flexibility and future growth, or meeting stringent code requirements without compromising system efficiency, the Page team recognizes that no two projects are alike. Every project undergoes detailed design analysis using proven engineering solutions to meet unique design challenges.
By focusing on energy conservation and sustainability, the MP team strives to minimize operating costs and maximize the return on investment. Page engineers accomplish this by using cross-discipline efficiency measures that ensure all sustainable and efficient design features achieve their synergistic objectives.
In keeping with good corporate citizenship principles, the Page team offers years of sector knowledge to the engineering community by encouraging participation in professional organizations and by supporting local building code development initiatives across the nation. Our team members hold many industry-recognized premier level certifications bestowed by organizations such as the U.S. Green Building Council (LEED AP), the Project Management Institute (PMP), the Uptime Institute (ATD), and the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (BEMP, CHD, HFDP, HBDP).
At Page, the combination of initiative, creative innovation, continued personal growth, and experience offers our clients a proven fullservice design partnership that meets their needs.
Collin College Wylie Campus / Wylie, Texas
Quarry Run Regional Operations Center / Southwest Region, U.S.
Electrical Engineering
SERVICES
One Line System Design
Medium Voltage Distribution Design
Power System Design
Lighting System Design
Lighting Photometric Calculations
Grounding System Design
Electrical Power Systems Studies (fault current, coordination, arc flash, etc.)
Life Cycle Cost Analysis
Microgrid Design
Generator / Paralleling System Design
Neher-McGrath Thermal Analysis Study
Power Factor Correction
Building Information Modeling (BIM)
One-Line Custodian
Commissioning
Feasibility Studies
Construction Administration
Page Electrical Engineers (EE) and Designers offer unmatched experience and an in-depth knowledge of electrical system design, and serve a wide range of projects from initial conception to construction completion and facility management.
Our engineers agree the training and experience provided at Page is some of the best in the industry. Page Electrical Engineers contribute to engineering and design projects as soon as they come on board. Electrical team members receive the training, tools, and opportunities they need to succeed and grow. The wide variety of project types and market sectors ensure our team members are always learning and working on world-class, career-defining projects.
Page’s Electrical team works with a wide variety of clients and market sectors around the world. This includes but is not limited to:
§ Data Centers / Mission Critical
§ Healthcare
§ Corporate Commercial
§ Higher Education
§ K-12 Education
§ Federal, State and Local Government
§ Military
§ Performing Arts
§ Athletic Venues
§ Semiconductor
§ Transportation Centers
§ Multi-family Residential
In keeping with good corporate citizenship principles, the Page team is active in a variety of professional communities, offering years of sector knowledge to both educated and new engineers and support local building code development across the nation. Our team also holds many industry recognized premier level certifications including U.S. Green Building Leadership in Energy & Environment Design certified (LEED AP), Project Management Institute, and Uptime Institute Accredited Tier Designer (ATD). At Page, the blend of initiative, innovation and experience offers our clients the proven full service design partnership to meet their needs.
Our Electrical Engineers collaborate closely with all Page project disciplines and client-selected Architects, and throughout the project life cycle from design to commissioning.
Fire Protection Engineering / Code Consulting
SERVICES
Fire suppression design
Fire alarm design
Mass notification design
Smoke control system design
Fire alarm testing and commissioning
Fire suppression testing and commissioning
Fire pump and water storage design
Special hazard system design
High-piled storage design and consulting
Toxic Gas / HPM monitoring systems
Fire, building, and life safety code consulting
Third-Party review
Hazard and risk analysis
DoD QFPE services
Determining equivalence between US and International standards
Fire protection and building assessment services
Fire protection engineers provide expertise in fire suppression, fire alarm, and life safety design - specialties often on the peripheral of other disciplines’ scope. Utilizing a fire protection engineer improves project delivery by having a subject matter expert to help coordinate life safety issues and ensure a smooth construction process.
Page Fire Protection engineering brings a breadth of experience to complex projects for national and international clients in multiple market sectors including healthcare, mission-critical, semiconductor, high-rise, higher-education, and federal (GSA, DoD, DoE, OBO, VA, etc.).
Our expanding fire protection engineering team consists of licensed engineers in our Washington DC, Austin, Houston, and Denver offices. Page administers fire protection services for our clients, encompassing new construction, renovations of existing buildings, and upgrades to fire protection systems. The team also implements code consulting on various fire protection and life safety challenges.
Our project experience incorporates designing a variety of fire suppression, special hazard, fire alarm, and emergency communication systems. The team analyzes existing fire protection infrastructure including older fire alarm systems and existing water supplies. Page engineers determine if the systems are adequate or produce design solutions to meet clients’ needs.
United Airlines Tier IV Data and Backup Flight Operations Center / Chicago, Illinois
2nd Street District Master Plan / Austin, Texas
Round Rock Southwest District Civil Engineering Phase 2 / Round Rock, Texas
Civil Engineering
MASTER PLAN AND SITE DEVELOPMENT
Urban design, economic development, transportation, stormwater and green infrastructure are melded with Owner inputs and building placement to develop for our clients the most desirable site layout in coordination with regulatory entities and a detailed analysis of site characteristics.
UTILITY INFRASTRUCTURE
Municipal, commercial, residential and mixed-use projects require infrastructure services of varying intensity, specific to each population, based on zoning and economic use of each site. Community engineering design standards set the criteria for each use. Page coordinates with each stakeholder to locate their facilities, identify their existing availability, request extension, and to design to their standards to achieve project needs. From layout to project acceptance Page works with stakeholders through the project duration to clarify, trouble shoot, and assist the Contractor.
Review site rainfall and site run-off with calculation of pre- and post- development peak flow for use in management of critical drainage facilities. Design systems that convey, detain, and treat stormwater runoff in order to mitigate potential site and community impacts. Review and perform river flood studies.
STREET AND HIGHWAY DESIGN
Map topography and existing facilities including finish floor elevations and utilities to coordinate new infrastructure under flatwork. Provide plan and profiles of new utilities in the public right-of-way (ROW). Generate concepts for parking, landscaping, street furniture, lighting and accessibility to facilitate pedestrian activities or traffic predominately, where desired. Prepare street layouts, profiles and sections to match existing topography and facilities and including location of meters, manholes, transformers, drives, approaches, bollards, inlets, hydrants, curb cuts, curbs and gutter, tire bumpers, accessible parking, sidewalks, accessible routes, irrigation, signals, signage and wayfinding for construction.
WATER AND WASTEWATER SYSTEM DESIGN
Depict existing systems to remain or be maintained during construction and design water distribution systems and wastewater collection systems and services that will supply water service, provide sewage collection, and provide fire protection throughout the project. Analyze sanitary sewer flows and provide pipe slope for proper self-cleaning velocities. Provide meters and backflow preventors in traffic rated vaults. Distribute hydrants throughout the project according to Fire Code. Obtain flow tests and use to calculate head losses and verify pipe size to achieve required fire flow to be provided at each structure.
CITY, STATE, AND FEDERAL PERMITTING
Identify governing agencies and stakeholders at project initiation to begin coordination and obtain timely authorization. These range from Municipal Utility Districts to cities to the EPA to community organizations. Page develops relationships early to coordinate directly with permitting personnel to move your project efficiently through approval.
Collin College Wylie Campus / Wylie, Texas
Structural Engineering
SERVICES
Building Structure Analysis and Design
Condition Assessment
Forensic Engineering
Structural Updates
Pedestrian and Utility Bridge Design Foundation System Design
Equipment Foundation Design
Hardening of Mission Critical Facilities
We are leaders in the field of design of mission critical facilities such as Data Centers and Hospitals. Page designs facilities with resistance to progressive collapse and hardened against terrorist and other threats.
Page’s Structural Engineers have extensive experience designing projects of all types such as but not limited to laboratories, central plants, utility distribution infrastructure, petrochemical and in microchip manufacturing facilities designing everything from clean room ceiling supports to manufacturing tool pedestals and automated material handling system supports. We have the tools to analyze, investigate and design highly efficient structures of steel, concrete, masonry and wood.
The Structural Engineering team at Page designs structures which are conducive to the intended use with regard to load capacity and vibration performance while maintaining structural efficiently. Our focus is on the realization of the design intent whether that is of a purely functional nature or an architectural/iconic goal. We thrive on opportunities to solve complicated problems, such as achieving an increase in load capacity with minimal impact on economics and other building systems.
Department of Veterans Affairs Austin Outpatient Clinic / Austin, Texas
K&N New Headquarters and Manufacturing Facility / Grand Prairie, Texas
Process Engineering
SERVICES
Basis of Design (BOD)
Process Modeling
Unit Ops Selection
PFDs and P&IDs
Sequence of Operations
3D Plant Modeling
Design Calculations
Design Quality Control
Customer Advocacy
Tool Hookup Planning
Commissioning Support
Equipment Selection
SYSTEM DESIGN
Water Treatment
DI/UPW Systems
Wastewater Treatment
Reclaim Treatment
Oil Separation
Dissolved Solids Removal
Filtration
Solids Handling
Zero Liquid Discharge
Distribution Systems
Bulk / Specialty Gasses
Bulk / Specialty Chems
Design for Maintenance
The Page Process Engineering and Design team has the experience and knowledge to provide our clients with the latest technology and best practices that are specifically suited to each client’s project needs. Industrial clients in fast growing industries such as semiconductor and automotive manufacturing – among many others – have an urgent need for new and upgraded facilities that are easy to operate and maintain and that run at peak efficiency to minimize their environmental impact and cost of operation. Our team of engineers bring innovative solutions to the increased demand, evolving production and new technologies within the industrial markets.
Page Process Engineers provide design and consulting services including scope definition, system design, equipment selection, sequence of operation creation, schematic design and in-field commissioning support. Throughout this process, we consider design for maintenance principles, best practices, industry roadmap considerations, and perform frequent checks against the customer’s specific use case.
Our Process Engineers collaborate with professionals among other Page disciplines as well outside consultants. With the ever-changing demand and landscape of the industrial market, we strive to tackle any and all new challenges our clients may face.
United Airlines Tier IV Data and Backup Flight Operations Center / Chicago, Illinois
K&N New Headquarters and Manufacturing Facility / Grand Prairie, Texas
Communications Systems Engineering
SERVICES
Technology
Master Planning
Structured Cabling Systems
Data Networks
Voice Networks
Data Centers
Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS)
Nurse Call
RFID - Asset Management
Parking Management
GPS Clock
Cybersecurity
Audiovisual
Conference Centers
Multi-Purpose Venues
Performing Arts
Athletic Arenas
Sound Masking
Public Address and Paging Systems
CATV
Internet of Things (IoT)
Electronic Security
Video Surveillance
Access Control
Intrusion Detection
Duress
Infant Protection
Page Communications Systems Designers and Engineers have the experience and knowledge to provide our clients with the latest technology to suit their project needs. Our teams possess the top certifications from Building Industry Consulting Services International (BICSI) and Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association (AVIXA) which are the gold standard for Communications Systems Designers. Working in collaboration with all the verticals Page supports, our teams design cost effective solutions to projects of varying complexity.
With the continued evolution of the Internet Protocol (IP) based products and solutions, Communications Systems scope continues to increase, and projects are more complex and collaborative. Communications infrastructure once limited to computer networks now provides interconnectivity of technology that spans the scope of the project including voice, teleconferencing, security, lighting, digital signage, building automation etc. The increased demand for IP based systems has led to the need for experienced designers to be more involved in the scope of design throughout all phases of the project.
Page provides design and consulting services including Technology, Audiovisual and Electronic Security Systems. Page promotes and designs scalable systems which allow for expansion without replacing existing infrastructure, keeping capital investments and disruptions to a minimum.
Completed projects include:
§ Medical
§ Corporate Commercial
§ Education
§ Federal, State and Local Government
§ Performing Arts
§ Athletic Venues
§ Semiconductor
§ Transportation Centers
§ Hyperscale Data Centers
Our Communications Systems Designers / Engineers collaborate closely with all Page project disciplines as well as client selected Architects and MEP teams throughout the project life cycle from design to commissioning.
Building Commissioning
We understand the challenges related to operating buildings effectively and efficiently.
SERVICES
Building Commissioning
Testing, Adjusting and Balancing (TAB)
Total System Balance
Predesign Readings
Calibrations
Annual, Biannual, Quarterly Certifications for ORs and Clean Rooms
Existing System Troubleshooting
Rebalancing
Stairwell Pressurization Testing
Sound & Vibration Testing
Control Sequence Verification
3rd Party Design Reviews
Quality Control
The Commissioning Team is committed to exceptional commissioning services and outstanding client care. There are many challenges related to operating buildings effectively and efficiently. We recognize each organization and building has unique requirements, and we believe high performance buildings cannot exist without the application of the commissioning process.
With a solid track-record as a Certified Commissioning Firm (CCF), the Page Commissioning Team provides our clients with a team of professional engineers, architects and field technicians whose credentials are unparalleled. As one of the largest architectural and engineering organizations in the country specializing in building technologies, Page has a broader perspective on total building commissioning than those typically found in single dimension commissioning and engineering firms. This breadth and depth of technical personnel resources allows Page to respond in a more comprehensive and sophisticated manner under any schedule constraints.
Page provides building commissioning services for many public and private clients such as The University of Texas System, Baylor College of Medicine, U.S. General Services Administration, NASA Johnson Space Center, the City of Houston, CenterPoint Energy, Shell Oil, and, the new 385-acre ExxonMobil Campus near the Woodlands, Texas that accommodates approximately 10,000 employees and constructed to high standards of energy efficiency and environmental stewardship.
Our commissioning team’s goal is to provide a valuable resource to help our clients discover solutions for these challenges. This commitment to quality ensures system performance is right the first time. It confirms your building operates as designed and assures maximum building performance.
Our Commissioning team members are certified and experienced in a range of services. We are well-versed in evolving industry standards and commissioning best practices. Some of our key staff serve in volunteer leadership roles on the Building Commissioning Association (BCxA).
Our commissioning service practice was formed in 2001 in response to the needs of our clients following the devastating Tropical Storm Allison floods affecting the Texas Medical Center. The resources for the commissioning services practice are dedicated to commissioning while delivering the highest quality service using industry best practices developed by the Building Commissioning Association (BCxA) and the American Society of Heating Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). Page Commissioning was ranked No.13 by 2016 Cx Giants. From our Texas offices in Austin, Houston and Dallas, Page provides commissioning services throughout the United States and around the world.
Select Engineering Clients
3M
Bank of America
Baylor University
CenterPoint Energy
Charles Schwab
Chevron Phillips Chemical
Cologix
Dell
Digital Realty
Dominion Energy
Equinix
Ercot
ExxonMobil
Facebook
Frost Bank
Google
HCA Healthcare
Hewlett-Packard
Infomart Data Centers
Intel
LightEdge
Methodist Hospital
Micron
Microsoft
NTT Communications
NXP
Oracle
QTS
RagingWire
Raytheon
Schlumberger
Texas A&M University
Texas Children’s Hospital
Texas Instruments
Texas Tech University
The University of Texas MD
Anderson Cancer Center
TT Electronics
United Airlines
University of Houston
USAA
US Air Force
US Defense Intelligence Agency
US Department of State
US General Services
Administration
Valero
Verizon
Viasat
Wells Fargo
Zayo
The University of Texas at Austin Data Center / Austin, Texas
Texas Instruments RFAB / Richardson, Texas
United Airlines Tier IV Data and Backup Flight Operations Center / Chicago, Illinois
Quarry Run Regional Operations Center / Southwest Region, U.S.
RagingWire Data Center / Garland, Texas
Project Experience
Page serves the following core markets:
Academic
Advanced Manufacturing
Arts & Culture
Aviation
Civic
Commercial & Mixed-Use
Government
Healthcare
Mission Critical
Science & Technology
Driscoll Children’s Hospital North Pavilion Expansion and Renovation / Corpus Christi, Texas
City of Buda Municipal Complex / Buda, Texas
The University of Texas at Arlington Science Engineering and Innovation Research Building / Arlington, Texas
AMLI on 2nd / Austin, Texas
The University of Oklahoma Biomedical Gallogly Hall / Norman, Oklahoma
RagingWire is a subsidiary of an international telecommunications giant that commissioned the technologically advanced mega-scale 1,000,000-square-foot data center as part of a global project to achieve a network of comparable world-class, cost-efficient centers. The master plan included five buildings at 16 MW IT load each for a total 80MW IT load. Each data center was designed to be developed and built in phases allowing for expansion to be constructed with minimal interruption to prior phases. The first building phase includes the first 16 MW and an integrated two-story office. Each 16 MW white space consists of approximately 126,000 square feet of raised floor area subdivided into 1MW vaults within a roughly 201,000-square-foot total data center building shell.
The more public-facing office allowed the Page team to integrate not only workplace strategy but also the company’s identity into the design. The two-story, 40,000 square-foot glass and steel frame structure houses offices for both RagingWire Data Center operations and client use. Visitors enter through the vault of the secure space into the open lobby, which is a soaring space flooded with natural light from above. A cylindrical volume of yellow fritted glass clads the elevator and is the centerpiece of the room. The delicate custom light fixture hanging from the ceiling and details throughout the office space reinforce the idea of a cloud. Amenities such a community conference room, a lounge, break room, fitness center, and hotel-like rooms all represent workplace strategies expected in today’s tech industry. The design easily weaves a series of private and semi-public spaces of varying size and accessible by controlled levels of security enhancing the identity of the company and its mission. Page and RagingWire were awarded the 2018 Datacenter Dynamics Award for Data Center Design Team of the Year for this project.
With a new 45-story residential tower designed by Page, AMLI Residential completes Pei Cobb Freed’s Fountain Place master plan. A symmetrical prism of emerald green glass, the Fountain Place office tower by Henry Cobb has adorned the Dallas skyline since 1986. The master plan called for a second identical tower on the western edge of the plaza, rotated 90 degrees from the first, but this vision was never realized. The residential tower honors the spirit of the original plan by filling in a parking lot and embracing the Dan Kiley-designed landscape, and its proportions, massing and cladding are inspired by its sibling. Its form, however, is original and distinctive, with slices, folds and ridges that endow it with a unique identity and initiate a dialogue with the office tower.
Fountain Place Residences sits atop a nine-story parking podium whose 192-foot square footprint equals that of the office tower. At the 10th story, the tower rotates 45-degrees to maximize views of Uptown and Santiago Calatrava’s Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge from the residential units. Densely planted with trees, an 18,000-square-foot roof deck at the 10th floor offers a park-like setting where residents can experience the city and the sky while entertaining or relaxing in outdoor kitchens, cabanas or greenspace. 314 typical units are arranged on the lower 28 floors. Starting at the 29th floor, the building’s geometry creates 53 unique units arranged on the top seven floors.
To create a harmonious composition across Dan Kiley’s iconic plaza, Page deferred to the master plan by repeating or carefully reinterpreting certain design elements. Because the shape of the new volume is unique, it was essential to match the original glazing precisely. The design team conducted lighting studies, sourced various samples and ultimately mocked up eight panels 80 feet off the ground within the Fountain Place office building façade. The samples remained in place for more than two months to allow the design team, client and owners of Fountain Place to observe the glass in different light conditions and agree on the closest match.
The new corporate headquarters for Austin Energy is located in the Mueller development and consists of about 280,000 SF of office space, including a generous common area at the ground floor dedicated to customer service and staff amenities like a café terrace and patio. The building includes structured parking for about 1,000 vehicles.
The project is targeting AEGB 5-Star, LEED Platinum, WELL v2 Silver, and will serve as a demonstration project for the latest sustainability and energy efficiency strategies. The design team used digital models to evaluate energy conservation options and maximize the efficiency of the building. This process included a whole building life-cycle analysis, which led to the reduction in the depth of the structure and the inclusion of fly ash in the concrete, mitigating the need for cement and offsetting carbon emissions of the building for 15 years. The evaluation also focused on maximizing thermal comfort, enhancing HVAC systems, and sourcing raw and green building materials. The project reduced reliance on portable water through various strategies, including connecting to the municipal reclaimed water infrastructure, encouraging expanded use of this important local system.
In addition to efficiency, health and resilience are prompted in the building design. Some of the health- and nature-oriented sustainable features include: natural light and available nature views for workspaces; daylight-responsive controls all work to contribute to lighting power reduction design during daytime hours; easy access to outdoor spaces; fresh outdoor air monitoring to promote occupant comfort and healthy CO2 levels; wellness-focused break and quiet areas with views to the outdoors; indoor finishes that have been prioritized for health and environmental qualities such as low toxicity, regional materials, and recycled content. The design also celebrates sustainability and human health by using a central, inviting stair to encourage walking and interaction among occupants. Additionally, a community learning space is programmed with wellness activities. Page collaborated with ELS, who served as the design architect for the project exterior.
Confidential Semiconductor Client
Austin Campus
AUSTIN, TEXAS
PROJECT SIZE
1,600,000 S quare Feet
SERVICES PROVIDED
Architecture / MEP Engineering / Process
Engineering / Structural Engineering / Interiors
Page has been performing work on this client’s campus for over 15 years. Page was part of the design team for the Fab A2, which at the time of its construction, was the largest wafer fabrication facility in the United States. The 1.6 million-square-foot, 300MM plant includes 350,000 square feet of Class 100 cleanroom (including over 55 piping systems); 225,000 square feet of office support area; expansion to the existing central utility building; and miscellaneous structures and support facilities. The new Fab A2 project was located adjacent to the client’s existing semiconductor facility Fab 1, and the Page team had to take considerable steps in sequencing design and construction packages to maintain existing operations of that facility during construction of the A2 project. The four-story office building housed this client’s USA Headquarters offices, a commercial kitchen, a 1,000-seat employee cafeteria, auditorium, meeting spaces and a data center.
Since the completion of Fab A2, the Page team has performed numerous maintenance projects, upgrades, and improvements to both Fab A2, Fab 1, the central utility plant, and other miscellaneous campus needs. Page’s long-standing relationship with this client has established us as trusted experts for their internal processes, standards and systems.
After experiencing double digit population growth over the past couple of decades, Collin College found itself needing to add educational programs, to serve the residences of Wylie, in the southeast portion of Collin County. Collin College embarked on a massive bond program to build a new campus on the land adjacent to the City of Wylie government center on Country Club Road. Page was commissioned to guide the College’s vision from a strategic master plan to site development to building design to interfacing with the community of Wylie.
The first buildings will provide the backbone for the campus life including the Welcome Center, Resource Center and the Student Center, with educational and faculty spaces located in each building, the site design will also facilitate student interaction and education, for an integrated learning and social environment. The building’s shape and orientation was sculptured in a way to push natural lighting further into every interior space, while maintaining a strong connection with the natural surroundings. The scale, size and design of the various outdoor spaces reinforces functional connections to the academic programming within. The architectural style is a kin to Texas Regional with an exterior palette of Carmel stone, multi tone buff brick, painted steel trellis and clear glass. Site material and plant palette builds on the Texas Regional aesthetic to blend with the larger landscape and provide a appropriate setting for the new buildings. Color is introduced into the exterior and interior details to provide visual interest, and intuitive wayfinding, between buildings within a unified style for the campus. The surrounding native landscaping is an integral part of creating the campus environment. This vision was accomplished by retaining and enhancing an existing stream and its associated vegetation, and pushing cars to the perimeter allowing pedestrian only walking paths and lawn areas which lead to a central quadrangle.
Collin College puts students first and the new campus will reinforce that commitment by providing numerous collaborative spaces for students and faculty both inside and outside.
