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 places smarter, while improving the experiences of those who work, 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 is one of the nation’s leading specialized laboratory consulting design firms, with laboratory planners who program, plan and design over one million gross square feet of high-quality research space annually for the higher education, corporate and governmental sectors. Projects included in this project portfolio range from large multi-science research and teaching facilities to small scale renovations. Representative projects include the new Integrated Science Center at UMASS Boston and complete core and shell renovations at the University of Connecticut Cell and Genomics Building (winner of R&D Magazines 2011 Renovated Laboratory of the Year) and comprise the first part of this Page Science and Technology portfolio herein.
The Page Science and Technology practice also provides full service architectural design for laboratory projects. We combine our lab planning and design experience with experience gained from a progression of numerous Page academic projects. Representative architecture projects range from the Dell Medical School Education and Administration Building at the University of Texas at Austin and the Brain Performance Institute at the University of Texas at Dallas, to a Maker Lab for the Evans Hall Research and Teaching Laboratory at the University of Delaware. For new and renovation laboratory projects of all types, large and small, Page has an expert team of talented architects and laboratory planners ready to develop creative solutions.
Representative Projects:
University of Massachusetts, Integrated Sciences Complex / The College of William & Mary, Small Hall Addition and Renovation / Colorado State University, Scott Engineering Building / Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Goodwin Hall / University of Connecticut, Cell Sciences Institute Renovation and Addition / University of Virginia, Biomedical Engineering and Medical Sciences Building Complex / State University of New York (SUNY), Institute for Human Performance / Brown University, Hunter Hall-Environmental Research and Teaching (BERT) Renovation / Montgomery College, New Bioscience Education Center / Shenandoah University, Health & Life Sciences Building / Carnegie Institution for Science Singer Research Building / Johns Hopkins University, Wilmer Eye Institute Robert H and Clarice Smith Building / University of South Carolina, Horizon I Building for Alternative Energy Resource / Gallaudet University, STM Laboratory Renovation / The University of Delaware, Evans Hall Research and Teaching Lab Renovation / University of Dallas, Natural Science & Engineering Research Laboratory / The University of Texas at Arlington, Engineering Research Building / Baylor College of Medicine, Vestibular Research Laboratory / The University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center District BioCenter / The University of Texas at Austin, Dell Medical School Education and Administration Building / The University of Texas at Austin, Dell Medical School Research and MOB Building / The University of Texas at San Antonio, Academic and Administrative Office Building (North Paseo Building) / The University of Texas at Dallas, Brain Performance Institute / George Mason University, Prince William Campus Bull Run Hall / Austin College, IDEA Center
University of Massachusetts Integrated Sciences Complex
Page and Goody Clancy collaborated on this 220,000-squarefoot multidisciplinary integrated science building, which features a research lab and support spaces for biology, chemistry, environmental sciences, physics, and psychology. It also includes undergraduate biology teaching labs, an interdisciplinary undergraduate sandbox teaching lab, and a new research center for personalized cancer therapy.
Science departments are distributed throughout five floors for an integrated research and learning experience. Chemistry research and instructional labs were developed with representatives from the chemistry department.
PROJECT DETAILS
Project Size
122,000 Square Feet
Services Provided Programming / Equipment Planning / Construction Administration
Fort
Collins, Colorado
Colorado State University Scott Bioengineering Building
The three-story facility for the College of Engineering at Colorado State University contains classrooms, teaching labs, and research space for environmental engineering, systems, and synthetic biology and chemical engineering departments. Five laboratory pods for research and teaching focus on a specific area to support these academic programs. Although these groups have dedicated offices for their faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and graduate students, the pod teams work in close collaboration with each other in spaces explicitly designed to bring the various teams together. Other notable spaces include a computational virtual reality cave and clean room fabrication facilities.
Page provided laboratory planning and programming services, and SLATERPAULL|Hord Coplan Macht + RATIO provided design services. The 122,000-square-foot building achieved LEED Gold certification and complies with Labs21 Environmental Performance.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Goodwin Hall
Goodwin Hall provides Virginia Tech with a remarkable signature engineering building, with forty modular instructional and research labs that 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 LEED Gold 155,000-square-foot facility, which houses mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, and aerospace departments, features robotics teaching labs, such as the Terrestrial Robotics Engineering and Control (TREC) Lab and Extreme Environments, Robotics & Materials (ExtReMe) Lab.
Page provided lab planning and programming services, and ZGF provided design services
PROJECT DETAILS
Project Size
118,000 Square Feet
Services Provided
Lab Planning / Equipment Planning / Programming / Construction Administration
Project Award
Reconstruction Award
Building Design + Construction, R&D Magazine, 2010
Renovation Lab Project of the Year
R&D Magazine, 2011
Farmington, Connecticut
University of Connecticut Cell Sciences Institute
Renovation and Addition
The Cell Sciences Institute is an award-winning 1970s-era pharmaceutical research building with phased renovations housing the Stem Cell Institute, the R.D. Berlin Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling, and the Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology. The program includes flexible laboratory spaces with natural light for stem cells, genomics, advanced imaging, and a separate incubator lab program. Key features include a stem cell lab with associated animal space, specialized optical suites, data analysis for imaging, and an adenovirus transfection suite.
Existing metal casework in research labs was extensively upgraded to modern research and safety standards. The expansion included an incubator facility that brings additional tenant labs online.
Page provided lab planning and programming services, and Goody Clancy provided design services.
State University of New York (SUNY) Upstate Medical University Institute for Human Performance
The 158,000-square-foot four-story addition provides two levels of flexible wet lab space for investigators from different disciplines collaborating on the cause and progression of brain, spine, and nervous system diseases, with options for large open labs and, smaller group labs and focused collaboration space. There are also 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, large aquatics housing suite, and an animal imaging core with MRI, SPECT/CT, and MicroPET.
Page provided lab planning and programming services, and Goody Clancy provided design services.
Brown University Hunter Hall Environmental Research and Teaching (BERT) Renovation
Brown’s University Hunter Hall Environmental Research and Teaching was a complex renovation of a 51,000-square-foot 1920s-era lab building. The project included renovating the labs on the second and third floors to maximize their efficient utilization, clustering individual labs, and adjoining support spaces. These floors house lab and research support spaces for ecology, evolutionary biology sciences, and chemical engineering, as well as optimized office and workstation proximity to the labs.
The third-floor labs were designed for chemical and biochemical engineers for other intensive labs. The “semi-private” wet labs achieved a very efficient, flexible, user-friendly floor plan in a floor plate originally designed for psychology labs. The labs promote a collegial environment yet maintain investigator independence.
Page provided complete lab planning and programming services. The project was completed as a Design-Build contract with Brown University and Toshiko Mori Architects LLP as the lead design firm.
Shenandoah University Health & Life Sciences Building
The 55,000-square-foot Health & Life Sciences Building is a stateof-the-art facility devoted to the health professions and STEM disciplines. The building features a 2,000-square-foot, 16-table cadaver lab supporting physical therapy, athletic training, and nursing programs.
The Nursing Department also has skills labs and an observation room. In addition, the project brings together chemistry and biology instructional labs and their associated support spaces under one roof. There are several shared spaces, such as study rooms, seminars, and conference rooms.
The project’s goal was to promote multidisciplinary and interactive learning. The labs provide long-term flexibility to accommodate changes in use and pedagogy over time.
Page lab planning and programming services. Earl Swensson Associates, Inc. provided design services.
Baylor College of Medicine Vestibular Research Laboratory
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 compromises 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, 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.
Montogomery College’s 140,000-square-foot Bioscience Education Center is located on Maryland’s I-270 technology corridor and promotes student-faculty interaction and multi-disciplinary team learning with demonstration and recitation spaces with the display of science and technology throughout the building.
The STEM building houses biology, chemistry and biotechnology labs. The Biotech program educates students on 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.
The building, designed by The Lukmire Partnership with Mitchell Giurgola is certified as LEED Gold and promotes energy conservation using solar, wind and light harvesting.
John Hopkins University Wilmer Eye Institute Robert H and Clarice
Smith Building Baltimore, Maryland
Johns Hopkins University’s state-of-the-art Wilmer Eye Institute building 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 connect 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.
The lab areas on each floor were designed as open labs to promote researchers’ collaboration and provide Johns Hopkins with longterm flexibility as programs changed over time.
The building was developed to be fitted out floor-by-floor as researchers and projects were identified. Over several years, Page provided lab planning, programming, and design services, including individual floor fit-ups, to achieve the goal of a fully occupied research building. Ayers Saint Gross was the design architect associated with Wilmot Sanz.
PROJECT DETAILS
Project Size
63,000 Square Feet
Services Provided
Lab Planning / Equipment Planning / Programming / Construction Administration
Washington, DC
Gallaudet University STM Laboratory Renovation
The award-winning interior STM laboratory renovation and expansion project provides state-of-the-art research and support facilities for Gallaudet University’s expanding sciences program.
The fourth-floor renovation included chemistry teaching labs, an instrument lab, research spaces for students and faculty (Chemistry, Physics, and Biology), and support spaces. During the design phase, a mock-up of the proposed chemistry teaching lab was built to test architectural improvements to be incorporated into the final design for a student-centered deaf space. The third floor includes three teaching labs for biology and physics, research, STM classrooms, and lab support spaces.
The scope of work included hands-on learning environments in the different departments with support and collaboration spaces. Key to the success of this project and the school’s program is visual connection and interaction between students and faculty at all times.
The project goals included upgrading the quality and safety of all laboratory spaces to comply with current safety standards, creating a collaborative student-centered learning environment, and incorporating DeafSpace Guidelines in the design. Environments for visually based languages such as this require a focus on lighting and daylighting quality, modulation, and control.
Page provided lab planning services, including programming, equipment planning, documentation, and construction administration. TWENTYSEVEN Architecture provided architecture services.
The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School Research and Medical Office Building
Page is a design partner on all University of Texas buildings in the Medical Center District. In association with ZGF, Page is designing the 264,428-square-foot Research Building, the 239,373-squarefoot Medical Office Building 1 and the 1,120-vehicle, 448,054-square-foot, structured parking garage. The eight-story research building will house 97,000 square feet of wet laboratory space and 15,000 square feet of core labs. A 20,000-square-foot vivarium with expansion capabilities which includes imaging and surgery suite as well. The first floor includes full-size imaging equipment and cyclotron. The 10-story Medical Office Building 1 will be connected to the Research Building via a five-level “dry lab,” enabling collaboration and translational research among medical professionals and clinical researchers.
Bounded by Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, Interstate Highway 35, 15th Street, and Trinity Street, the medical district was first identified in The University of Texas at Austin Campus Master Plan and was later confirmed in the recent Medical District Master Plan created by Page and Sasaki Associates. Of significance is the immediate adjacency of the proposed medical district to the existing University Medical Center Brackenridge, specifically because of the substantial investment in facilities in the Medical Center, which will continue to serve a new teaching hospital being planned. The medical district is being developed as a partnership between UT Austin, Seton Healthcare and Central Texas Healthcare. The vision for the district focuses on medical education that integrates healthcare, teaching, and research within an interdisciplinary setting, taking full advantage of adjacent university resources.
Dell Medical School Education and Administration Building
Page is the prime architect on all University of Texas buildings being planned for the Medical Center District. The Page team was selected to design the 86,570-square-foot Education and Administration Building. As part of that project, a 7,000-square-foot renovation to the School of Nursing Building will provide simulation laboratory space to serve the entire medical district.
The project includes a landmark “Social Edge” that contains interconnected collaboration zones, a standardized patient simulation center, a full gross anatomy lab, a large 150 seat Team Based Learning Classroom, a multipurpose teaching lab for organic dissections, and a cutting edge media center/commons/ library. One of the more innovative program elements is a suite of student-centric academies to provide the medical students a true home with lounge, collaboration, and study areas ganged on a dedicated floor.
The University of Texas at Dallas Brain Performance Institute
Based on our strong background in neurosciences, The University of Texas at Dallas recently engaged Page to refine the program, plan and design the Brain Performance Institute, an expansion of the Center for Brain Health Campus. The 60,000-sqaure-foot Brain Performance Institute is to be a next-generation and iconic facility, leveraging the successes established in research and trials at the Center for Brain Health. The BPI goal to maximize and extend brain performance for all ages is reinforced in the planning and design of the new facility. To do this requires rigorous site and adjacency analysis, along with a thorough synthesis of the BPI program initiatives and greater UT Dallas system research initiatives.
At Page, we recognize that often there is a stigma associated with learning disabilities and brain disorders. By creating an iconic facility where people with all types of brain function will go to increase brain performance, we are helping break the myths surrounding brain disorders. Our designers are prepared to create an environment that is inspiring for all users and visitors of the facility, from the young to the old, from student to veteran, and in making UT Dallas the “go-to” facility for brain performance.
In close collaboration with the UT Dallas system Page is simultaneously working on the Immersive Research and Instructional Space (IRIS) project. Project IRIS will be an advanced multi-disciplinary visualization lab for research and teaching. Over 20 UT Dallas programs are anticipated to become users of this state-of-the-art facility, including Neurosciences, Brain and Behavioral Sciences, and Arts and Humanities.
University of Texas at Dallas Natural Science & Engineering Research Laboratory
Page, in association with ZGF, designed the Natural Science and Engineering Research Building which provides multidisciplinary research programs ranging from physics, biology, and chemistry to electrical engineering and neuroscience. The 190,195 SF project includes faculty, student, and administrative offices, and laboratory spaces, as well as a 10,000 SF 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.
The University of Texas at Arlington Engineering Research Building
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.
Page served as Architect of Record, in association with ZGF as Design Architect, and also provided MEP engineering and LEED documentation services.
