Life Sciences

With roots extending back to a two-person partnership formed in 1898, Page is one of the most prolific and enduring architecture and engineering design practices. Page architects, engineers, interior designers, planners, strategic analysts and technical specialists provide services throughout the United States and abroad. Our diverse, international portfolio includes projects in the healthcare, academic, government and science and technology sectors, as well as civic, corporate and urban housing projects.

The Page portfolio consists largely of complex projects that benefit from our integrated disciplines and that make a significant impact on the communities they serve. We are guided by the three core values of creativity, collaboration, and commitment, and through the force of these ideals, we live up to our promise of design that makes lives better.

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The University of Texas at Dallas Bioengineering and Science Building / Richardson, Texas

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We start with your vision. We design for the future.

Core Markets

Academic

Aviation

Civic / Community / Culture

Corporate / Commercial

Government

Healthcare

Housing / Hospitality

Industrial

Mission Critical

Science / Technology

Design is the crux of what we do. Throughout the generations, Page has promised, and delivered, design that makes lives better. We believe buildings are important for what they do and for the positive impact they make on individual lives.

That’s why we have a solution-driven project focus that 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, complex projects.

At Page, we promise design that makes lives better.

Life Sciences

Research and development continues to play an essential role in addressing the world’s greatest health challenges and in improving health outcomes. In recent years, the healthcare industry and life sciences sector, in particular, have experienced unprecedented growth, driven by an infusion of both public and private funding. Greater emphasis and reliance on evidence-based medicine, translational research, and personalized therapeutics have fueled investment in people and facilities to support the discovery, development, and testing of new medical, surgical, and behavioral interventions. Government agencies, private corporations, and academic medical centers alike are facing ever increasing demand for more and better laboratory and manufacturing space. Page understands the importance to our clients of having a robust research and development infrastructure in advancing healthcare delivery.

Our experience is deep and broad in a wide range of project and client types—whether lab ft-ups within commercial space for small start-up companies; complex renovations in operating hospitals and clinical testing facilities; or new standalone academic research lab buildings and pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities. Irrespective of type, Page approaches each new project with the aim of finding solutions that uniquely respond to the client’s goals and needs.

Page also understands that organizations perform best when comprised of the most qualified people, and that oftentimes facilities are a key factor in elevating an organization’s reputation and in attracting and retaining top talent. We appreciate the need for adaptability and modularity to accommodate change, as well as redundancy and reliability to ensure unfettered operation. We explore opportunities for reusing buildings and employing sustainable features in order to realize the full potential of these high-cost assets.

These considerations drive Page’s approach to planning health education, science, and delivery facilities. We channel this deep knowledge and experience to guide our clients in making decisions about how best to utilize resources to achieve their business goals and objectives for patient care and wellbeing.

Healthcare systems with strong capabilities to innovate will likely have an edge over their competition. Our team of experts can identify opportunities for repositioning and developing capital assets to support discovery, deliver value, and generate revenue.

Our lab planners program and design more than one million GSF of specialized research space annually.

Biomedical / Biotech

Page’s lab planning team provides comprehensive services for the design and engineering of technically complex facilities for life sciences, biotech, biomedical and public health programs for academic, government and private sector clients nationwide and internationally. Projects range from large multi-science research, development, training and testing facilities to focused small-scale single lab renovations as well as master planning and pre-planning studies. Clients include the NIH, CDC, USDA, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Dell Medical, Baylor, J&J/Janssen, Leidos and Qiagen as well as numerous biotech incubators for the next generation of life science leadership.

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The University of Oklahoma Biomedical Engineering Research and Teaching Building / Norman, Oklahoma

Gallaudet University STM Laboratory Renovation / Washington, DC

UMass Boston Integrated Sciences Building / Boston, Massachusetts

Virginia Tech Derring Hall Renovation / Blacksburg, Virginia

The University of Oklahoma Gallogy Hall / Norman, Oklahoma

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Virginia Military Institute Maury-Brooke Hall Science Building / Lexington, Virginia

Translational Medicine

Translational medicine has been a transformative way of creating new possibilities by allowing basic science to transition to real applications at high speed. The recent vaccine developments for Covid-19 are perhaps the most visible representation of what is being undertaken by translational medicine – getting therapies from bench to bedside and into the community at breathtaking speed. Page has been working at NIH and at prominent medical schools to create adjacencies that allow for acceleration of clinical trials, putting basic research facilities and clinical facilities side-by-side along with facilities for pre-clinical development and testing. These facilities require extreme planning to care for patients while also pushing cutting-edge research. Page’s extensive experience in both hospitals and pharmaceutical research and manufacturing makes us a vital partner in creating the physical places for translation to be successful.

Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute / Baltimore, Maryland

University of Connecticut Cell Sciences Institute / Farmington, Connecticut

Gallaudet University STM Laboratory Renovation / Washington DC

State University of New York (SUNY) Neuroscience Research Building / Syracuse, New York

Baylor College of Medicine Gross Anatomy Lab / Houston, Texas

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center South Campus Vivarium / Houston, Texas

Pharmaceutical R&D

Advances in drug research and development, and new manufacturing techniques, provide lifesaving opportunities for millions of people. These innovations are necessary now more than ever, as we face unprecedented global need for vaccine discovery and production. The Page team is experienced with US Food and Drug Administration current Good Laboratory Practice and Good Manufacturing Practice guidelines, having worked for clients like Janssen, Lilly, Lonza, Novartis, and Roche, among others, on a variety of greenfield and interior fit-up pharmaceutical, quality control, product development, and related production and laboratory facilities containing classified and unclassified space. We are likewise experienced with the corresponding international guidelines and standards—ISO 14644 and IEST-RP-CC003—as they apply to these types of environments, including personnel, product, material, and waste management, as well as environmental monitoring, access control, and sanitization/ decontamination requirements. We are also adept at collaborating with clients and GMP consultants in the development of qualification, commissioning, and validation plans, in line with FDA regulations for licensed facilities. Page uses this knowledge and best practices from our other market sectors like Academic, Government, Corporate, and Healthcare to create inspiring, compliant environments that support development of new drug therapies.

University of Massachusetts Lowell Trinity Innovation Lab Fitup / Lowell, Massachusetts

Baylor College of Medicine Center for Drug Discovery / Houston, Texas

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Vaccine Research Center / Bethesda, Maryland

Dr. Paul Janssen Research Center / Beerse, Belgium

Roche Manufacturing Equipment Cleaning Facility / Confidential Location

Engineering Labs

Engineering labs encompass an incredible array of functions to support a convergence of disciplines across all sciences that fuel our innovation-driven economy that has been transformed by digitalization. From device prototyping and scale-up to reliability testing and failure analysis, the types of spaces required for engineering and physical sciences demand a rigorous understanding of work flows and equipment. Spaces often must be shielded from RF interference or meet challenging ISO cleanroom requirements while in adjacent spaces dust is being created and high levels of noise and vibration are being generated. Page has been working with many government agencies and leading private companies to create robust flexible spaces that can accommodate rapid evolution in tooling and equipment and adapt quickly to new processes. The full spectrum of software to hardware labs are in play in these facilities.

Wentworth Institute of Technology New Science and Engineering Building / Boston, Massachusetts

Virginia Tech Goodwin Hall / Blacksburg, Virginia

Virginia Wesleyan University Greer Hall / Norfolk, Virginia

Colorado State University Scott Bioengineering Building / Fort Collins, Colorado

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University of Dallas Natural Science & Engineering Research Laboratory / Richardson, Texas

Cleveland State University Washkewicz College of Engineering / Cleveland, Ohio

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Related Facilities and Services

Building Sciences

As designers and planners of the built environment, we have a tremendous impact on the world around us and take this responsibility seriously. We believe that every design solutions should make lives better. Our focus has shifted beyond “doing more with less” towards restoring and improving the sites, neighborhoods, and cities within which we build. This intention requires rigor and it is our strategy for implementing this vision that sets us apart.

Page approaches sustainable and regenerative design through the interdisciplinary lens of building science to create higher performing, healthier, more resilient buildings. We are grounded in our client’s sustainability priorities, we engage a truly integrated process, and we are guided by data driven solutions.

Data Center Facilities

Page has become one of the nation’s foremost thought leaders in the design of next generation Data Center facilities. Our recent experience includes numerous data center and control room projects for a variety of clients including cloud providers, colocation facility providers, Federal Government, Department of Defense, US Army Corps of Engineers, State Department, financial institutions and energy providers.

Our mission critical professionals bring sophisticated skills and professional certifications unique to these project types. We stay abreast of market trends which require knowledge and skills far beyond building codes and local standards to ensure our clients receive the benefits they expect.

Electronics Labs / Cleanrooms

At Page, our forward-thinking design process molds the manufacturing configuration into flexible, built environments by simplifying structural grids, harnessing reliable power sources, and balancing repetitive mechanical and specialty process systems into a complex environmentally controlled facility. Tracking and verifying key design metrics is paramount to our success for establishing a clear path to make informed decisions to solve complex challenges.

By immersing our clients into our design process, we can collectively identify emerging technologies, materials and environmental systems to create the best possible solution.

Building

Commissioning (Cx) & Testing, Adjusting, Balancing (TAB)

Page Commissioning is committed to exceptional commissioning services. 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, Page Commissioning provides our clients with a team of professional engineers, architects and field technicians whose credentials are unparalleled. This breadth and depth of technical personnel resources allows Page to respond in a more comprehensive and sophisticated manner under any schedule constraints.

Page also performs Testing, Adjusting, and Balancing (TAB) in accordance with NEBB standards. We are an independent testing firm with absolutely no affiliation with manufacturers, factory representatives, vendors/providers, contractors or installers of HVAC-related equipment and systems. By utilizing a professional and knowledgeable team we have been able to correct issues in a variety of facilities created by or left undiscovered by other TAB firms. We provide design reviews, site observation reports, control sequence reviews to find issues as early as possible to help avoid late and costly repairs.

Additional Life Sciences Experience

Public Health

Centers for Disease Control B28 / Atlanta, Georgia (BSL4)

Barbados National Medicine Reference Laboratory / Bridgetown, Barbados (BSL2, BSL3)

Makeni Hospital Regional Laboratory / Sierra Leon (BSL2)

Gorgas Institute of Public Health / Panama City, Panama (BSL2, BSL3)

NIH Vaccine Research Center / Behtesda, Maryland (BSL-3 and ABSL-3; GLP/GMP)

Gross Anatomy Laboartories

University of Colorado Anschutz Gross Anatomy Lab / Anschutz, Colorado Baylor College of Medicine Gross Anatomy Lab / Houston, Texas

Texas A&M University Health Science Center Gross Anatomy Lab / Bryan, Texas

UT Austin Dell Medical School Health Learning Building / Austin, Texas

Vivaria

UT MD Anderson Cancer Center South Campus Vivarium / Houston, Texas MIT Vivarium Planning Study for Division of Comparative Medicine / Cambridge, Massachusetts

Brown University Behavioral Neuroscience and Animal Care Facility

Renovation / Providence, Rhode Island

University of Virginia Carter-Harrison Research Building / Charlottesville, Virginia

State University of New York Institute for Human Performance / Syracuse, New York

Innovation Hubs

University of Oklahoma Quinsigamond Community College QuEST Center / Worcester, Massachusetts

Virginia Tech Goodwin Hall Robotics Laboratory / Blacksburg, Virginia

Austin Community College ACCellerator / Round Rock, Texas

University of Massachusetts Lowell Merrimack Valley Open Innovation Hub / Lowell, Massachusetts

University of Delaware Cyber Security Range and Maker Space / New Castle, Delaware

Lab Renovations

Howard University Frederick Douglass Memorial Hall Building

Modernization / Washington, DC

Virginia Tech Derring Hall Undergraduate Science Lab Renovations / Blacksburg, Virginia

University of Connecticuit Cell Sciences Institute Renovation / Farmington, Connecticuit

Brown University Hunter Hall BERT Renovation / Providence, Rhode Island

Baylor College of Medicine, Multiple Renovations Campuswide / Houston, Texas

Texas A&M University Gross Anatomy Lab / Bryan, TX

Centers for Disease Control B28 / Atlanta, Georgia (BSL4)

University of Delaware Cyber Security Range and Maker Space / New Castle, Delaware

Page Select Life Sciences Clients

Agilent

Alcon

Allergan

Austin Community College

Barbados National Medicine Reference Laboratory

Baylor College of Medicine

Brown University

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

CDC Foundation

Charles River Laboratories

Cleveland State University

Colorado State University

Disruption Labs

Gallaudet University

Gorgas Institute of Public Health

Hospira

Howard University

Janssen

Johns Hopkins University

Lilly

Lonza

Makeni Hospital Regional Laboratory

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

MD Anderson Cancer Center

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Novartis

Opexa

Pfizer

PharMEDium

President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (PEPFAR)

Qiagen

Roche

Sierra Leone Ministry of Health

State University of New York (SUNY)

Sulzer Orthopedics and Biologics

The University of Oklahoma

Texas A&M University Health Science Center

UMass Boston

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

University of Colorado Anschutz

University of Connecticut Cell Sciences Institute

University of Dallas

University of Delaware

University of Massachusetts Lowell

UT Austin Dell Medical School

University of Virginia

Virginia Military Institute

Virginia Tech

Virginia Wesleyan University

Wentworth Institute of Technology