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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Page Serves The Following Core Markets:
Academic
Advanced Manufacturing
Aviation
Civic / Community / Culture
Commercial - Mixed Use
Government
Healthcare
Mission Critical
Science / Technology
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.
Our solution-driven project focus results in life-enhancing buildings and places. Our multidisciplinary services allow complete integration from conceptualization to engineering to interiors and more, resulting in an improved client experience and final product.
We recognize that good talent can be applied to complex projects regardless of industry. And good talent becomes great when it gains experience in a variety of situations. We create crossover teams so that individuals can work on different projects and share their own expertise and insights with other team members. Our collective commitment to visionary design is reflected in our portfolio of successful projects.
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:
At Page, we provide a creative design process resulting in buildings and places unique to their situations. Our designs are well-researched program-driven solutions aided by integrated multidisciplinary expertise and a strategic mindset. We’re global thinkers building locally and making communities. Our portfolio reflects our commitment to visionary design, record of innovation, and most importantly, success with complex and sophisticated projects.
We develop unique designs for every project reflecting our expertise for each building type, client, need and location. We take pride in knowing that a Page project is among the best possible solutions to meeting the needs of its multiple stakeholders from owner to operator to user to neighbor.
Engineering
We were one of the first firms in the nation to integrate in-house engineering design services. Today, our multidisciplinary mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection and process engineering practice areas work collaboratively across our firm and with design and construction partners to bring your concepts to reality.
We’re leading the development of the latest industry codes and standards for safety, wellness, sustainability, energy and carbon neutrality. Using a combination of custom tools and Building Information Technology solutions, we visualize and communicate how occupants and operations interface with complex, integrated building and process systems. Our early adoption of advances in renewable energy, microgrids, Internet of Things and high-performance systems demonstrate our commitment to socially responsible design.
Interiors
Well-designed interiors are critical in shaping educational experiences and improving the quality of people’s lives. We design interiors that promote clients’ missions, achieve brand awareness and support the wellbeing of all occupants. All of our interiors projects are opportunities to design positive, consistent visual reinforcements of our clients’ cultural identities.
By combining the skills of our interiors professionals with those of architects, planners, engineers and technology specialists, we offer our clients a breadth of service and single-point responsibility found in few other firms. 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 engages research, cutting-edge technology tools and appreciation for the unique cultures of people, organizations and places. Our interdisciplinary teams of master planners, urban designers, architects, landscape architects and programmers engage ongoing transformations of urban areas, encouraging development and redevelopment, with unique solutions for every site. Through urban districts, institutional campuses, innovation districts, long range development plans, master plans, streetscapes and transit-oriented communities, our teams integrate building blocks of community, sustainability and resilience into innovative design solutions.
Lab Planning / Design
From universities to corporations to government entities, we plan and design laboratories that connect today’s users to the possibilities of tomorrow. Laboratory facilities are among the most intricate and complex design projects. Our architects, planners and engineers provide a full range of services to deliver high-quality scientific and technologically intensive environments that integrate with the design of the host facility.
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 teams every day. Our laboratory planners are specialists with a thorough understanding of the safety standards and scientific equipment requirements foundational to the success of all laboratories.
Branding & Graphics
At Page, our visual identity and experiential designers create brand identities and graphic designs that support how places and environments are experienced. The orchestration of two-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.
Programming
Before we design physical spaces, our Programming team members lead a strategic planning process with our specialists, designers and clients to crystallize both the vision and objective for a project. They understand business dynamics and organizational complexities, which allows them to facilitate productive discussions. We generate a robust understanding of the problem at hand prior to design in order to facilitate, support and in some cases guide clients’ organizational change and growth decisions.
We have proven that throughout design, construction and move-in, the clearly communicated project definition developed in the pre-design phase supports effective organizational and/or operational change management even after project completion. Informed client decisions position our entire team to develop optimal solutions throughout every step of the design process.
Predictive Analytics
Our Predictive Analytics team is an international workplace consultancy consisting of architects, planners, technology designers, process improvement specialists and industrial engineers.
Predictive analytics brings quantitative, objective, and data-driven focus to the entire design process. Using clients’ existing performance data, we identify areas for operational and spatial efficiency. Employing observational research techniques, a new future state environment is designed, and we can save clients time, resources, space and money while optimizing performance in the workplace.
Building Sciences
At Page, we approach sustainable design through the interdisciplinary lens of building sciences to create higher performing, healthier and 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. 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
We recognized the level of investment and importance of facilities that function as designed from the day they open. Our Commissioning service provides this assurance to owners and operators while also minimizing costly construction rework. At Page, we accomplish commissioning through a collaborative process that includes the building owner, design professionals and the general contractor under the guiding hand of the Commissioning Authority.
We have a solid track record as a Certified Commissioning Firm (CCF). The exacting standards of our professional engineers, architects and field technicians in service of our clients support delivery of construction quality. We also perform Testing, Adjusting, and Balancing (TAB) in accordance with Associated Air Balance Council (AABC) standards.
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Campus Planning
Cyber Security Engineering
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Lab Planning
Landscape Architecture
Student Life & Housing
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At Page, we know education transforms lives. The learning experience permeates the community and region, the campus and college. Learning occurs on the walk to class, in the lecture hall, in collective social spaces and on the laptop. From the lab bench to the cafeteria, every space is designed to create an atmosphere where all students and faculty feel welcome and perform at their best.
Our academic team is a creative workshop of designers, campus planners, lab planners, programmers and engineers discovering design solutions that are particular and responsive to program, site, context and economics. Our PK12 and Higher Ed teams are subject matter experts who know and understand academics from the inside out. We understand the power of listening, and we excel at building consensus on projects with multiple stakeholders—from the institutional leaders, facility managers, project managers, faculty and students to the larger community.
With more than 1,000 projects at over 400 colleges, universities and schools nationwide, our built portfolio includes music and performing arts buildings, classroom and faculty office buildings, student housing and dining communities and sports recreation facilities for the nation’s top institutions as well as state-of-the-art research laboratories, medical schools and teaching hospitals. Our master planning and branding team has planned more than 100 public and private university campuses throughout the country and abroad. Our lab planners program and design more than one million gross square feet of specialized research space annually for the higher education, corporate and governmental sectors. Our most celebrated detail of these statistics is the percentage of repeat clients; we care deeply and believe this illustrates our commit to client service.
Our approach to design is research-based and data driven with a firm belief that real architectural excellence comes not only from strength of form and visual character but also from creating effective, productive and inspiring places for individuals and institutions to achieve their goals and aspirations.
The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School Health Learning Building / Austin, Texas
LEED gold
Lab Planning
Our lab planners program and design more than one million GSF of specialized research space annually.
Higher Education Lab Projects
Acadia University / Brown University / Carnegie Institution of Washington / Colorado State University / Duke University / George Washington University / John Hopkins University / MIT / Medical University of South Carolina / Radford University / Rutgers University / South Carolina State University / The College of William & Mary / University of Arkansas / University of Maryland / University of Mass-Boston / University of New Mexico / The University of Texas El Paso / The University of Texas Health Science Center - Houston / The University of Texas San Antonio Health Science Center / University of Virginia / Virginia State University / Virginia Tech
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We are one of the nation’s leading architectural and engineering specialized laboratory consulting design firms, with laboratory planners who program, plan and design more than one million gross square feet of high-quality research space annually for the higher education, corporate and governmental sectors.
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.
We understand that successfully designed laboratories support innovation in research and attract the best and brightest faculty and students. Using a problem-solving design approach, we rely on our wealth of laboratory experience to achieve elegant, flexible and sustainable solutions for the many technically complex challenges posed by the architecture of science and technology.
Our Science & Tech and Engineering Schools across the country include the University of Texas at Dallas Bioengineering Building, the University of Texas at Arlington Science & Engineering Research Building, and the University of Oklahoma Biomedical Engineering Research & Teaching Building.
Colorado State University Western Slope Campus Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory and Classroom Buildings / Grand Junction, Colorado
University of Massachusetts Boston Integrated Science Center / Boston, Massachusetts
LEED gold
Virginia Military Institute Maury-Brooke Hall Science Building Renovation / Lexington, Virginia
University of Connecticut Cell Sciences Institute Renovation & Addition Lab Planning / Farmington, Connecticut
LEED gold
Select Health Education & Science Projects
Baylor College of Medicine
Gross Anatomy Lab (Lab Planning)
Binghamton University
Behavioral Neuroscience Research Facility (Lab Planning)
Brown University
Mind Brain Behavioral Neuroscience and Animal Care Facility Renovation (Lab Planning)
Carnegie Institution of Washington at Johns Hopkins University
Labs for Embryology research: Functional Genomic methods for the study of cellular, molecular, and developmental biology (Lab Planning)
Emory University
Pediatrics Translational Research Building
Johns Hopkins University
Wilmer Eye Institute (Lab Planning)
Malone Hall / Center for Individualized Medicine (Lab Planning)
Johns Hopkins University Bayview Medical Campus
Gerontology Research Center and National Institute for Drug Abuse - Biomedical, Genomic, and Clinical Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex (McGovern Institute for Brain Research and Picower Institute for Learning and Memory) (Lab Planning)
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research (Lab Planning)
Medical University of South Carolina
Drug Discovery & Bioengineering Buildings (Lab Planning)
Montclair State University
Center for Environmental & Life Sciences (Lab Planning)
Sam Houston State University College of Osteopathic Medicine
SUNY - Upstate Medical University
Neuroscience Research Building
Central New York Biotech Accelerator (Lab Planning)
SUNY - Stony Brook
Medical and Research Translation (MART) Building (Lab Planning)
The University of Texas at Arlington Science and Engineering Research Building
The University of Texas at Austin
Health District Master Plan
Health Learning Building (Academic)
Health Discovery Building (Research)
Health Transformation Building (Medical) School of Nursing
The University of Texas at Dallas
Brain Performance Institute Bioengineering & Science Building
The University of Texas Health Science Center - Houston
Behavioral and Biomedical Sciences Building UTHSC-H Medical School Building Expansion
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Pickens Tower
The University of Texas San Antonio Barshop Institute - Longevity Center and Aging Studies (Health Science Center) (Lab Planning)
The University of Texas El Paso Health Sciences and Nursing Building
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Biocenter
University of Houston College of New Medicine
University of Houston Sugar Land College of Technology Building
University of Maryland Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (Lab Planning)
University of Mass-Boston Integrated Science Center (including Center for Personalized Cancer Therapy) (Lab Planning)
University of Oklahoma Biosciences Research Building
University of Rochester
Data Sciences Institute (Lab Planning)
University of Virginia
Building MR5 - Medical Sciences and Cancer Research Building Complex (Lab Planning)
University of Massachusetts Integrated Sciences Complex
Boston, Massachusetts
PROJECT DETAILS
Project Size
229,450 Square Feet
Services Provided
Programming / Schematic Design / Design
Development Documents / Equipment Planning / Construction Administration
This new multi-disciplinary science building provided the UMB with its first new academic building on the Boston campus in nearly four decades. The 229,450-square-foot Integrated Sciences Complex features research lab and support space for biology, chemistry, environmental sciences, physics, and psychology; undergraduate biology teaching labs; an interdisciplinary undergraduate sandbox teaching lab; and a new research center for personalized cancer therapy.
Multiple departments are organized for an integrated multidisciplinary research and learning experience by distributing the science department’s program requirements throughout the five floors of the building. Options for Chemistry research and instructional labs were developed with representatives from the Chemistry department.
Page/SST Planners provided complete lab planning services including programming, equipment planning, documentation and construction administration. The building design Architect was Goody Clancy (GCA).
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Goodwin Hall
Blacksburg, Virginia
PROJECT DETAILS
Project Size
155,000 Square Feet
Services Provided
Programming / Schematic Design / Design
Development Documents / Equipment Planning / Construction Administration
Goodwin Hall provides Virginia Tech with a remarkable new “signature” engineering building. 40 modular instructional and research labs create a high degree of flexibility for faculty collaboration and support of specialized equipment, such as high speed wind tunnels, 3D fabrication, nano characterization and fabrication, materials testing, and optics. The 155,000-square-foot facility, which houses the Mechanical, Aerospace, and Chemical Engineering departments, features robotics teaching labs, such as the Terrestrial Robotics Engineering and Control (TREC) Lab and Extreme Environments, Robotics & Materials (ExtReMe) Lab.
Page/SST Planners provided lab programming and planning. Goodwin Hall was designed by ZGF and has achieved LEED Gold Certification.
Baylor College of Medicine
Vestibular Research Laboratory
Houston, Texas
PROJECT DETAILS
Project Size
12,000 Square Feet
Services Provided
Programming / Lab Planning / Architecture /
MEP Engineering / Contract Administration
The Baylor College of Medicine Vestibular Research Lab project relocates an existing research laboratory facility located at Washington University St. Louis, Missouri to a renovated space at the main campus of Baylor College of Medicine. The relocated research program calls for non-human primate (NHP) research and related administrative support space, and separate human-subject research areas utilizing equipment similar to that of the NHP program.
The main research goal of the laboratory is to understand the mechanisms underlying multisensory integration for motion perception and spatial orientation.
The collective project consists of two program components: a laboratory and an administrative support area. The laboratory component includes animal housing, cage wash, veterinary storage, necropsy / procedure space, EMI-shielded equipment and control rooms for conducting experiments, wet and dry laboratory bench areas, electronics workshops, and computational equipment areas. The administrative component includes staff offices, canteen and conference-presentation areas, restrooms, and office support space.
Equipment rooms include 3D motion platforms and a 3D human / animal moog.
Austin College’s IDEA (Inquiry, Discovery, Entrepreneurship, Access) Center, a dynamic multidisciplinary science facility that houses astronomical and solar observatories, is distinctive for its environmental sensitivity and educational impact. The first LEED building on campus, the IDEA Center provides a contemporary, learning-focused home for students and faculty studying biology, chemistry, computer science, environmental studies, math, and physics.
In collaboration with design architects Shepley Bulfinch, the IDEA Center expands opportunities for faculty-student research and facilitates global access to research and information. The three-story building also features 32 laboratory classrooms, 40 offices, 16 lecture rooms and a 108-seat auditorium.
Page, the architect and engineers of record, and Shepley Bulfinch, the design architect, worked closely with Austin College to develop site-specific opportunities for sustainability such as solar shading, use of natural light and rooftop rainwater collection for irrigation of native landscaping.
University of Dallas Natural Science & Engineering Research Laboratory Richardson, Texas
Page, in association with ZGF, designed the Natural Science and Engineering Research Laboratory which provides multidisciplinary research programs ranging from physics, biology, and chemistry to electrical engineering and neuroscience. The 190,195-square-foot project includes faculty, student, and administrative offices, and laboratory spaces, as well as a 10,000-square-foot cleanroom, space for the University’s technology acceleration program, and facilities for imaging.
A primary goal of the building was to provide highly flexible interdisciplinary laboratory space to support and encourage interaction of the researchers housed within. Equally important was providing the most highly serviced and safest laboratory space on the campus to accommodate cleanroom and laboratory functions previously housed in other buildings. The solution was a floor plan comprised of two laboratory wings, with office space adjacent to the laboratories.
Virginia Wesleyan University
Greer Environmental Sciences Center
Norfolk, Virginia
PROJECT DETAILS
Project Size
40,000 Square Feet
Services Provided Programming / Schematic Design / Design Development Documents / Equipment Planning / Construction Administration
The Greer Environmental Sciences Center is a collaborative, studentcentered learning environment with flexible space for undergraduate research that goes beyond the typical discipline boundaries. The 40,000-square-foot facility sits at the south end of the school’s academic lawn and completes the main quad, serving as a cornerstone of the school’s environmental sciences program. Page’s lab planning team provided lab programming, planning, and design services for the building, which was designed by VMDO Architects.
The facility houses four large teaching labs, dedicated to the disciplines of ecology and marine biology, earth science, atmosphere / oceanography / hydrology and analytical chemistry. Research labs include an aquatics center, trace element analysis clean room and environmental imaging suite with SEM, confocal, and other microscopes. Other labs house nutrient analysis, geology and hydrology programs. Research is supported by spaces for freezers, lab storage, field equipment storage, sample processing space, instrumentation labs, a temperature-controlled environmental room, and chemical storage.
Geographic information systems allow users to map, model, analyze, and query large amounts of special or geographical data. Lecture rooms include a 50-person, tiered lecture room located on the east wing, two 36-person classrooms, two 20-person seminar rooms and a geographic information system classroom. Study spaces available to students of all majors are located throughout the center.
One of the many goals of this facility is to provide a space for regional institutions to come together in a collaborative research effort and provide an opportunity to enhance partnerships with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Virginia Aquarium and Virginia Institute of Marine Science.
University of Connecticut Cell Sciences Institute Farmington, Connecticut
PROJECT DETAILS
Project Size
85,000 Square Feet plus Mechanical
Rooftop Enclosures (112,000 total)
Services Provided
Programming / Schematic Design / Design
Development Documents / Equipment
Planning / Construction Administration
This award-winning renovation of a 1970s-era pharmaceutical research building provided the University of Connecticut with a new home for the Cell and Genome Sciences Institute. Phased renovations for the building, which houses UConn Stem Cell Institute, the R.D. Berlin Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling, and the Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology, included labs for genetics and developmental biology, stem cell research, computational modeling (cell analysis and modeling), and animal studies. The lab planning team fit a variety of program elements into the complex, existing floor plan of the 118,000-square-foot building, with a strong emphasis on flexible labs with natural light. Existing metal casework in research labs were extensively upgraded to modern research and safety standards.
Page/SST Planners provided lab programming and lab planning services for the building. The Institute, designed by Goody Clancy & Associates, received the 2010 Reconstruction Award from Building Design + Construction and the 2011 Renovation Lab Project of the Year from R&D Magazine.
The University of Texas at Arlington Engineering Research Building Arlington, Texas
The 235,000 square feet, six-story Engineering Research Building (ERB) consolidates the College of Science and the College of Engineering departments of Bioengineering and Computer Sciences, which were formerly housed in several aging campus facilities. A main goal of the project was to create a facility supportive of the new paradigm of highly interactive teaching and research facilities with the flexibility to accommodate evolving technologies for teams of multidisciplinary research investigators. The building allows computer science and biomedical engineers to work alongside students of chemistry, biology, physics, math, and genomics. Program spaces include efficient and flexible teaching and research laboratories; laboratory support spaces; classrooms; faculty, student, and administrative offices; as well as spaces for interaction and collaboration.
Belmont University, Wedgewood Academic Center Nashville, Tennessee
PROJECT DETAILS
Project Size
186,000 Square Feet
Services Provided
Programming / Schematic Design / Design Development Documents / Equipment Planning / Construction Administration
This project provides Belmont University with a new consolidated Academic Science Center. The 186,000-square-foot building houses an abundance of learning labs and associated instructional classrooms that vary in capacity from 24 to 72 students, enabling long-term flexibility in usage. The Center was also designed for interdisciplinary collaboration and “planned collisions” between students and faculty and emphasizes experiential learning and group interaction spaces. 20 state-of-the-art science labs accommodate biology, chemistry, and physics programs and include a spectrometer lab, a microwave reaction chamber, a laser lab and a photonics lab, as well as a an animal holding room for zebra fish, and a cold room and incubators for biological studies.
A four-story open atrium provides natural light throughout the building, which has achieved LEED Platinum certification. Other sustainability features include multiple green roofs—one adjacent to a biology lab space on the third floor and several on the top floor. LED lighting and motion sensors are used in offices, classrooms and labs. A chilled beam mechanical system, in conjunction with a VAV system, is used throughout to increase efficiency.
Page/SST Planners provided lab programming and lab planning services for the building, which was designed by Earl Swensson Associates, Inc. (ESa).
Gallaudet University STM Laboratory Renovation Washington, DC
PROJECT DETAILS
Project Size
63,000 Square Feet
Services Provided Programming / Schematic Design / Design Development Documents / Equipment Planning / Construction Administration
This interior renovation of the Hall Memorial Building includes a total area of work of 63,000-square-feet, on two floors and divided in two phases.
The first phase, fourth floor renovation includes teaching labs for Chemistry, Instrument Lab, Research spaces for students and faculty (Chemistry, Physics and Biology) and support spaces. A mock up of the proposed Chemistry teaching lab was built during the design phase in order to test architectural improvements to be incorporated into the final design for student-centered deaf space.
The second phase, the third floor, includes three teaching labs for Biology and Physics, Research, STM classrooms, and lab support spaces. These spaces will be ready for occupancy by the beginning of the Spring 2016 semester.
Page/SST Planners provided complete lab planning services including programming, equipment planning, documentation and construction administration. The architect was Studio TWENTYSEVEN Architecture in Washington, DC.
The University of Texas El Paso Health Sciences and Nursing Building
The 130,000-square-foot Health Sciences and Nursing Building sits on what is now the most prominent site of the UTEP campus. The fivestory building reflects and supports an integrated vision of healthcare education and provides space to house 3,000 students and 100 faculty members from the College of Health Sciences and the School of Nursing. This state-of-art facility contains instructional, research and laboratory spaces, including the 16,000-square-foot Simulation Center to teach essential nursing skills in actual clinical settings.
The design of the Health Sciences and Nursing Building reflects the distinctive “Bhutanese” architectural style of the UTEP campus. While conducting extensive research on the history and elements of Bhutanese architecture, the Page design team discovered the design standards of the Department of Urban Development and Engineering Services (DUDES) of the Bhutanese Government. The standards revealed rules on how each of these elements could and should be used on buildings and resulted in the design of a different roof type for this building, as well as increasing the amount of exterior glass, bringing daylight deep into the inside of the building.
University of Virginia Biomedical Engineering and Medical Sciences Building Complex Charlottesville, Virginia
PROJECT DETAILS
Project Size
338,000 Square Feet
Services Provided Programming / Schematic Design / Design Development Documents / Equipment Planning / Construction Administration
This new two building complex provides the University of Virginia’s Medical School with a facility that supports Biomedical Engineering, Medical Sciences and Cancer Research. This new building (built in two phases) relieves a shortfall of graduate level research space and consolidates the Biomedical Engineering research activities. Each of the four floors contains BSL2 wet research labs as well as a BSL3 laboratory suite. In addition to research space, this building will house classrooms and conference areas as well as two vivaria (total 30,000 square feet) for both conventional and transgenic rodents. There is also a small number of teaching labs in the 338,000-squarefoot building.
Page/SST Planners provided lab programming and planning. The architect was HDR, Inc.
State University of New York (SUNY) Neuroscience Research Building Syracuse, New York
PROJECT DETAILS
Project Size
158,000 Square Feet
Services Provided Programming / Schematic Design / Design Development Documents / Equipment Planning / Construction Administration
This new building provided the Upstate Medical University Institute for Human Performance with a new 158,000-square-foot addition. The four-story addition provides two levels of flexible wet lab space for teams of investigators from different disciplines who are collaborating on the cause and progression of diseases of the brain, spine, and nervous system. There are core labs for 2-Photon Microscopy and Microarray. One floor is dedicated to a 23,500-square-foot animal housing with a behavioral testing suite, transgenic breeding suite, and large aquatics housing suite, as well as an animal imaging core with MRI, SPECT/CT, and MicroPET.
Page/SST Planners provided lab programming and lab planning services for the building. Goody Clancy & Associates was the design architect for the project.
Baylor College of Medicine is a US News top ranked medical school. The gross anatomy lab and associated facilities experienced many changes which required a new space program with associated architectural modifications and HVAC ventilation systems This project involved phased demolition and renovation of existing gross anatomy classrooms and laboratories, morgue, cadaver storage and chemical storage facilities. The gross anatomy labs were redesigned to perform as highly flexible space to accommodate lecture style desk seating, gross anatomy dissection, prosection instruction and testing. Challenges included the relocation of the existing chemical storage facilities, and installation of new HVAC equipment and duct distribution system without disrupting on-going class functions.
Construction of the gross anatomy lab was sequenced to accommodate classroom schedules – one area was constructed while classes were held in another part of the facility. The spaces were designed to be flexible but also set up to meet curricula requirements, serving “double duty” to accommodate sequences of construction and classes.
Two of the eight multi-purpose classrooms support the Microsurgical and Endoscopic Center for Clinical Applications, from which demonstrations and lectures are broadcast from the microsurgery labs to lecture halls on the upper floors of the building, as well as to each workstation within the labs.
Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, Maryland
PROJECT DETAILS
Project Size
202,000 Square Feet
Services Provided Programming / Schematic Design / Design Development Documents / Equipment Planning / Construction Administration
This project delivered a state-of-the-art building to Johns Hopkins that houses its expanded research, clinical, and residency programs in ophthalmology. The 202,000-square-foot facility contains five floors of flexible research labs. A five-story atrium promotes interaction between researchers with a large gathering area for lectures and events, and brings natural light into the labs and offices. Bridges across the atrium connects labs with office suites, and glass walls in the labs provide a visual connection to the offices. Interactive spaces enhance community among researchers for a productive environment.
Page/SST Planners provided programming services. Ayers/Saint/ Gross was the Design Architect in association with Wilmot/Sanz.
Colorado State University Scott Engineering Building Fort Collins, Colorado
PROJECT DETAILS
Project Size
122,000 Square Feet
Services Provided Programming / Schematic Design / Design Development Documents / Equipment Planning / Construction Administration
The new three-story facility for the College of Engineering contains classrooms, teaching labs and research space for the School of Biomedical Engineering and the departments of Environmental Engineering, Systems and Synthetic Biology, and Chemical Engineering. Five laboratory “pods” for research and teaching focus on a particular area to support these academic programs. Although these groups house their own faculty, post-docs and graduate student offices, the pod teams work in close collaboration with each other in spaces designed specifically to bring the various teams together. Other notable spaces include a computational virtual reality cave and clean room fabrication facilities.
The 122,000-square-foot building has achieved LEED Gold certification and will comply with Labs21 Environmental Performance. Page/SST Planners provided programming services for the engineering building, which was designed by SLATERPAULL|Hord Coplan Macht + RATIO.
Brown University Hunter Hall
Environmental Research and Teaching (BERT) Renovation
Providence, Rhode Island
PROJECT DETAILS
Project Size
51,000 Square Feet
Services Provided Programming / Schematic Design / Design Development Documents / Equipment Planning / Construction Administration
Page/SST Planners provided complete laboratory planning and design services for the renovation of Hunter Hall at 85 Waterman Street into the Building for Environmental Research & Teaching (BERT). The second and third floors were completely redesigned to house flexible lab space and research support space for ecology and evolutionary biology sciences and chemical engineering. Working closely with the ecology faculty, layouts that maximized the shared use of support space and optimized office and workstation proximity to the second floor labs were developed. The 3rd Floor labs were designed for “to be determined” chemical and biochemical engineers or other service intensive labs.
The resulting “semi-private” wet labs achieved a very efficient and flexible user-friendly floor plan in a floor plate original designed for psychology labs. The labs promote a collegial environment yet maintain investigator independence.
Page/SST Planners provided complete lab planning services including programming, equipment planning, documentation and construction administration. The project was completed as a Design Build contract with Brown University and Toshiko Mori Architects LLP who was the lead design firm. The Project achieved LEED Gold.
Carnegie Institution of Washington Singer Research Building
Development Documents / Equipment Planning / Construction Administration
The Maxine F. Singer Research Building supports the partnership of Carnegie Institution of Washington (now known as the Carnegie Institution for Science) and Johns Hopkins University (JHU) – a collaboration that has existed for over a century. The 75,000-squarefoot facility, located on JHU’s Homewood Campus, replaced the existing laboratory building from the early 1960s that previously contained the research activities of Carnegie Institution. The new building houses Carnegie Institution’s Department of Embryology and helps Carnegie maintain its role in the application of functional genomic methods to the study of cellular, molecular, and developmental biology. The Singer Research Building was planned to encourage frequent interaction among researchers and includes 13 modern and well-equipped research laboratories, as well as shared spaces, such as a library, meeting rooms, genomics facilities, specialized instrument rooms, and supply rooms.
The research building includes an electron microscope/scanning electron microscope facility, microscope suites, cold rooms and animal spaces such as a barrier and a non-barrier rodent facility, fly cage rooms, tad poles and frog isolation, holding and procedure rooms, and a large zebra fish facility. Page/SST Planners provided lab programming and lab planning services for the building, which was designed by ZGF.
Montgomery College New Bioscience Education Center Germantown, Maryland
PROJECT DETAILS
Project Size
338,000 Square Feet
Services Provided
Programming / Schematic Design / Design
Development Documents / Equipment Planning / Construction Administration
Page/SST provided lab planning services for the 140,000-squarefoot Bioscience Education Center, on the Germantown campus on Maryland’s I-270 technology corridor. The design promotes studentfaculty interaction, multi-disciplinary team learning with the use of demonstration and recitation spaces with the display of science and technology throughout the building. This STEM building houses biology, chemistry, and biotechnology labs. Mathematics is being renovated in an adjoining building on the quad. The Biotech program will educate students in proper bio-manufacturing processes including gown-in, sample prep and robotics lab. Each floor contains science labs paired with prep and recitation rooms, classrooms, and faculty offices.
This building, designed by The Lukmire Partnership with Mitchell Giurgola, is being certified as LEED Gold and promotes energy conservation using solar, wind, and light harvesting.
University of South Carolina
Horizon I Building Alternative Energy Resource
Columbia, South Carolina
PROJECT DETAILS
Project Size
125,000 Square Feet
Services Provided Programming / Schematic Design / Design Development Documents / Equipment Planning / Construction Administration
The new Horizon I building provides the University of South Carolina with a facility that supports programs in engineering and technology along with scientific research and industrial development of alternative energy sources. The 125,000-square-foot building is designed around a central service corridor system, distributing intensive services and separating hazardous material flows from non-hazardous areas. Labs are zoned for high, medium and low service uses. Research areas include hydrogen, coal, thermal hydraulics and nuclear engineering. An incubator component on the first floor promotes private industry partnerships.
Page/SST Planners provided complete planning services. The architect was Watson Tate Savory.
“Our laboratory design team works hard to develop state-of-the-art science labs that meet the needs of our clients. We take a problem-solving approach to laboratory planning, integrating technically complex requirements with an aesthetic of elegance and a dedication to quality, flexibility, and sustainability.”
