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Qualifications for Science and Technology: Comprehensive Planning and Architecture
Biogen Lab of the Future Cambridge, Massachusetts
Contents
01. Firm Introduction 02. Selected Projects: Life Sciences Vivarium High Containment Oligonucleotides Gene Therapy cGMP 03. Master Plans and Strategic Plans 04. Data Driven Solutions 05. Workplace Strategy
Section 01. Firm Introduction
BioMed Realty Trust, Inc. Center for Novel Therapeutics, La Jolla, California
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We believe that design has the power to make the world a better, more beautiful place. Founded in
1935 Studios
26 Total Staff
2700+ Houston Staff
72 Areas of Practice Branded Environments
Landscape Architecture
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Planning and Strategies
Corporate and Commercial
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Health Higher Education Hospitality K-12 Education
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Most Innovative Companies in Architecture 2018 Fast Company
#2 Architecture Firm, 2019 Architectural Record and Interior Design Magazine
26 Studios / 6 Continents / Local Presence, Global Reach That’s why clients and communities on nearly every continent partner with us to design healthy, happy places in which to live, learn, work, play, and heal. We’re passionate about humancentered design, and committed to creating a positive impact in people’s lives through sustainability, resilience, well-being, diversity, inclusion, and research. In fact, Fast Company named us one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies in Architecture. Our global team of 2,700 creatives and critical thinkers provides integrated services in architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, and more.
Our Purpose
Design has the power to inspire joy, uplift lives, and strengthen the spirit of community. We're in it for the greater good.
We create places with meaning.
Our goal is to design places that make a positive difference in the world. That’s why people are at the heart of everything we do.
There’s so much more to architecture than what meets the eye. Every place has a story, and as we design, we help tell it. Our work enlivens neighborhoods, builds communities, energizes the citizenry, and respects and protects our planet.
We design with purpose. Several ideals ignite our passions and keep us focused on what matters. These core values are the building blocks of who we are and what we stand for. They give us purpose.
Design Excellence
Sustainability
Research
We’re dedicated to creating
For nearly a quarter of a century,
In our never-ending quest for
environments where people live
we’ve been at the vanguard of the
knowledge, we push limits, take
happier, healthier lives. To working
sustainability movement. Passionate
risks, investigate, and discover. We
collaboratively with our clients—
about designing places where human
constantly ask ourselves, “What if?”
engaging, listening, questioning—until,
life can thrive and entire ecosystems
“What’s next?” This makes our ideas
together, we exceed expectations. This
flourish, we’ve developed a reputation
clearer, our designs smarter, our teams
is how we define design excellence.
for challenging the status quo.
happier, and our clients more satisfied.
Diversity and Inclusion
Today, we’re still at it. We’re
Social Purpose
Different perspectives from people of different backgrounds paint a canvas of ideas with bolder, brighter colors. The combined creativity is infinite.
redefining sustainability as one of several interconnected parts to a greater, more meaningful whole. It’s a philosophy we call Living Design. By seamlessly incorporating
Together, we’re designing a more
sustainability, resilience, regeneration,
vibrant, dynamic world. We’re moving
inclusion, and well-being into each of
beyond socially constructed barriers
our projects, we can help sustain life on
and stereotypes and toward an open,
earth—today, tomorrow, and beyond.
united, productive society.
Well-Being
Resilience
Our Social Purpose program gives us the chance to contribute to our communities in more personal ways. We provide pro bono professional services to nonprofits for whom such services would otherwise be out of reach. Our projects address human needs like affordable housing, childcare, healthcare, and education. At the same time, we also like to roll up
We help communities prepare for—
our sleeves and get involved in hands-
Health is about so much more than
and protect themselves from—natural
on volunteer work. Whether it’s design
physical fitness, dietary habits, or
and man-made shocks like hurricanes,
or “sweat equity,” we’re inspired by the
disease prevention. It’s about how a
super storms, droughts, sea-level
power of human connection.
person functions at all levels—physical,
rise, heat waves, wildfires, and
mental, emotional, and spiritual. It’s
earthquakes. Even social volatility and
about the brain’s and body’s response
economic stress.
to the physical environment, and how that response influences a person’s quality of life.
Places that are designed, planned, and organized for resilience have a significantly greater chance of
We’re focused on making people’s
weathering physical trauma and
lives better—holistically—by designing
social provocations. They’re also
places that promote well-being from
much more likely to regenerate and
the inside out.
prosper afterward.
About Our Practice
We design high-performance, technologically advanced research facilities where the nation’s finest scientists make strides toward groundbreaking discovery. We have designed for than 50 million square feet of science facilities in the past ten years, ranging from a 1,000-square-foot laboratory fit-out to a multi-million square foot science city. Our practice has received more than 100 designed awards for projects within the last five years and has been recognized for innovation in science and research facility planning. Evoking the voice and ambitions behind a project is what we love to do; helping to share in creating a platform for critical exploration happening every day. We know, because for over 80 years, we've been designing buildings in which the world's pioneers thrive. Our team creates value by helping our clients channel their assets - people, processes, and facilities - to best support strategic objectives and encourage discovery. We want to enable our partners to identify their goals, evaluate options, make informed strategic decisions, and envision a sustainable plan for their future. Today's scientific environments are competitive venues for the best and the brightest, where success hinges on the ability to attract talent with inspiring design, and to engage them with the tools to meet their needs. As a partner to our clients and their stakeholders, we craft these novel concepts with an original approach. Working collectively allows us to recognize key differentiators and apply them to make distinctive, valued design solutions.
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Research & Development Beyond the bench, research and development make a huge impact. Today’s revolutionary ideas could lead to the blockbuster of tomorrow. That’s why we design flexible spaces that foster this idea of infinite possibility. Places that make it easier for people to use, share, and participate. Are you interested in leading the way toward the next big discovery? From start-ups and spin-offs to worldwide powerhouses, we know what it means to leave a legacy. Let us help you discover yours.
Lab and Office Fit Out We have designed more than 50 million square feet of science facilities in the past ten years, working in all industries including private, federal agency, and academic institution. Our projects range from a 1,000-squarefoot laboratory fit-out to a multimillion square foot science city. We have received more than 40 national awards for design excellence, and have been recognized for innovation in science and research facility planning with 14 ‘Lab of the Year’ awards from R&D Magazine. We continually strive to design smarter, and each project we touch informs a body of research that includes the world’s fastest growing and most innovative organizations. We draw from this expanding body of research to be able to provide you with cutting edge insights, to remain at the forefront of your industry.
Lab Tenants+Developers: Bringing Partners Together Buildings for Science and Technology tenants need to be different than regular office buildings – so it is critical that the interests of both developers and life science tenants be brought together and into alignment, in order for all parties to succeed. At Perkins and Will we understand those differences because we are the architects for hundreds of lab companies – from start-ups and mid-stage innovators to global biopharma. We provide planning and design services, as well as programming and strategies led by our in-house scientist and Lab Operations specialist covering general labs, pilot, cGMP, vivarium, and other technical spaces. And we are also the architects for scores of developers – including some of the most experienced real estate organizations dedicated to the life science industry.
Differences that Matter: What Science Tenants Want The most successful designs for research and development create environments that attract and retain top talent and enable innovation. Our science clients demand an adaptable and economical facility and a safe and healthy workplace, part of an ecosystem connecting both the internal and external communities. At a minimum, meeting these expectations requires that buildings respect the natural grid centerlines of lab benches and equipment, anticipate code controls for chemicals, allow spacious clearances for ductwork, address sensitive vibration criteria and offer a robust utility infrastructure. But the most successful – and appealing – buildings for science go much further by allowing plan layouts which are responsive to the critical relationships between lab and office spaces, where adjacencies, transparencies and layout impact innovation and collaboration. Locating cores in the right places and designing appropriate spans to windows and daylight can make the difference between a development that works well and appeals, and one that will pose challenges to potential tenants.
Section 02. Selected Life Sciences Projects
i3 Campus / Illumina San Diego, California
Client: BioMed Realty Trust, Inc.
A new architectural icon in the University Town Centre area is redefining
Size: 600,000 square feet
the traditional notion of a corporate research park in both form and
Completion Date: 2017
function. Designed as three trapezoidal, all-white concrete buildings,
Sustainability: LEED Gold® (interiors), LEED Platinum®
the new BioMed Realty i3 campus is now the home of leading genomics
(core + shell) Awards:
research and life sciences company - Illumina.
meets the 2030 Challenge
The three buildings form a large outdoor courtyard that is interconnected
Honor Award, AIA San Diego, 2019
to create a work-play experience unlike any other research park
Award of Merit, The Structural Engineers Association
environment. Dramatic white concrete and glass cantilevers create iconic
of California, 2017
views of the campus from the outside while internally framing the upper
Judges Award, American Concrete Institute, 2016
level collaboration terraces and outdoor staircases. The project’s interior design was inspired by Illumina’s “work anywhere” culture, enabling staff to work wherever they feel most comfortable at any time of day. The campus is 100 percent wireless and provides a variety of work areas to accommodate different work styles and preferences.
“Together with Perkins and Will, we breathed new life into an undervalued site, and delivered fresh, creative and eco-friendly thinking to attract a wolrd class tenant and exemplifies our goal of building science around a park, not a parking lot.” ― JENNY DURBIN, ILLUMINA’S GLOBAL FACILITIES MANAGER
― WHAT IT IS
i3 is a new life science campus in the University Towne Centre area of San Diego, developed as a destination for life science innovation.
APEX San Diego, California Client: BioMed Realty Trust, Inc. ― Size: 172,000 square feet ― Completion Date: est. 2021
― WHAT IT IS
A speculative high-tech innovative scientific research building perched on the edge of a canyon
Previously developed in the 1980s, the existing building disregarded its prime position within the community and within the canyon ecosystem. The new design afforded by the unique and elevated setting on the canyon edge, celebrates and rehabilitates the site—emphasizing the benefits of human connection with the environment—and creates an iconic and flexible research environment. The project seeks to restore the natural ecology of the site through a careful positioning of the building in relation to the canyon but also treads lightly on its sensitive habitat through its extensive environmental systems and native and reclaimed plantings. A network of outdoor amenity terraces, seating platforms and amphitheater extend workspaces towards the canyon, transcending the bounds of the façade and extending the flexible work space from inside to out. With its extensive glass skin and architectural concrete exterior, the project maximizes daylight and visual connections to the site and positions the project as an iconic presence within the region.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Operable facades and outdoor terraces physically extend amenities and workspaces out towards the mesa.
Sustainability A storm water system, designed to mimic existing native hydronic conditions, utilizes modular wetlands to capture, treat and control infiltration, mitigating run-off. Extensive landscaping and previous paving maximize ground water penetration while native plantings and a 100 percent recycled water irrigation system reduce water demand. Traffic Mitigation To reduce traffic impact, the project has committed to an extensive Transportation Demand Management system with measures such as preferred parking for carpools, electric vehicle charging stations, bicycle facilities, transit subsidies and a monitoring and reporting program to track results. Energy Reduction We designed the building to reduce energy-intensive air conditioning and maximize user comfort while maintaining views and connection to the site. The ground level facade is set back from the main volume above creating a deep overhang that shades the interior spaces and outdoor terraces. The cast in place concrete roof cantilevers out towards the canyon, sheltering the roof terrace and wrapping the south and west ends of the building. A computer generated sun study was used to determine the precise orientation of the sun informing the placement of fixed horizontal and vertical sunshades.
“Rising above University Towne Centre, you will do more than see the world from here, you'll change it.�
Well-being An assortment of amenities support the physical, mental and emotional health of building users. In addition to the fitness center, amenities placed throughout the site, including an outdoor workout area, activity lawn, volleyball court and a game area for horseshoe and corn-hole provide active social engagement opportunities while connecting users to the environment. The lobby, indoor/outdoor cafe and amphitheater create a core of collaborative and flexible workspace, while the level 04 terrace provides private outdoor space overlooking the canyon. Natural Palette The modern exterior of architectural concrete elements and extensive glass walls with steel accents is complimented with an interior palette of warm woods, stone tiling and a living green wall. This contrast of simple and elegant exterior materials with warm natural materials represents the dichotomy of the program - a high tech research building that is iconic and functional while also inviting and inspirational to its inhabitants.
Allen Institute Seattle, Washington
Client: Vulcan, Inc.
After years distributed across numerous Seattle locations The Allen
Size: 272,000 square feet
Institute decided to build one new headquarters on a holistic site in
Completion Date: September 2015
Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood. Consolidating into one location
Sustainability: LEED Gold®
allowed this bioscience research company to work in their unique culture
Awards: Honorable Mention, AIA Seattle, 2016
of teams and projects.
Technology/Live Sciences Development of the Year,
Embodying the Institute’s research philosophy we designed a new
NAIOP Washington, 2016
environment that encourages collaboration, offers flexibility, and
Best Project in Higher Education and Research,
breaks down barriers of private research practices. We broke the rules
ENRNorthwest, 2016
of conventional lab organization by arranging “petals” of functional
Best of the Best Higher Education and Research, ENR,
space around a central atrium. This maximizes daylight and views while
2016
visually and spatially connecting the activities happening throughout
AGC Build Washington Awards, 2016 High Honors, Lab of the Year, 2017
the building. By designing from the inside out, we created a research headquarters that promotes collaborative interaction to facilitate rapid advancements in brain and cell research.
Intentional Collisions
Unconventional Lab Planning
Big Science
A six-story atrium connected
Conventional lab organization
The Allen Institute houses a 2,700
with a beautiful communicating
stratifies functional uses with linear
square foot data center to process and
stair is a catalyst for intentional
zones of programs. The Allen Institute,
store their work. Reflecting the core
collisions. Departments cross on
however, is organized as “petals” of
values of big science and open science,
the stairs and across the atrium,
functional spaces around an atrium.
the data center is showcased behind
inspiring conversations and research
The labs are also strategically located
a glass wall.
collaboration. Cantilevered pods
away from the exterior allowing for
extend into the atrium, offering space
circulation on both sides. Embodying
for spontaneous meetings, which are
the principle of ‘open science’, two
often a source of creative sparks.
sides of the lab are glazed, providing maximum light and allowing researchers to see from one end of the building to the other.
Designed for Growth Rapid growth called for flexible planning. In order to accommodate for an explosion of staff—growing from 200 to 355 employees in just four years—the lab was designed to be flexible with the ability to serve future needs of both known and unknown recruits.
“I have never seen or been in a building that matches its functionality (and aesthetics). One sees conversations throughout the building, all of the time, we meet colleagues in the central stair well and male connections that we had not anticipated, and the spaces work to support both personal and work interactions in indescribable ways. The building is sensational!” ― RICK HORWITZ, ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN SCIENCE
“I am most impressed how wonderfully the building lives, facilitating our work, supporting our daily work, promoting interactions, supporting the spectrum of scientific activities from experiment to theory and modeling.” ― MIKE HAWRYLYCZ, INVESTIGATOR
Historic Restoration and Integration The site of the Institute was originally home to the 1920s Ford and Pacific McKay buildings. To preserve these former car showrooms, the historic buildings were cataloged, disassembled, and reconstructed along with the new structure. The restoration incorporated 2,760 pieces of terra cotta and 966 decorative plaster elements.
← A small art gallery that is open to the public showcases part of founder, Paul Allen's art collection.
The Atrium Seattle, Washington Client: Alexandria Real Estate, Inc. ― Size: 216,000 square feet ― Completion Date: 2019 ―Sustainability: LEED Gold® Certified
The life sciences industry has been rapidly growing in Seattle, creating a need for new lab spaces that can accommodate growing biotech teams and their advanced research. The Atrium, located on the east side of Lake Union at the northern most edge of the biotech core, provides a flexible state-of-the-art facility for some of today's leading biotech companies. Floor plate configuration, structure, and glazing patterns have been designed to achieve maximum flexibility for a variety of science and technology users. While there is currently a variety of tenants in the building, the entry lobby, main atrium and circulation core have been configured to accommodate either a single or multi-tenant use scenario. The central atrium space, with motorized windows and an expansive skylight, fosters collaboration amongst the various researchers and provides a space for large gatherings.
“I have to say 1818 Eastlake [The Atrium] is shaping up to be one of the most attractive architectural buildings in Seattle, and perhaps on the west coast. I am so impressed how it is coming together. The scale, architecture, and materials are simply outstanding.” ― RIC ANDERSON, WASHINGTON HOLDINGS
Inspired by Context The material and color choices reflect the industrial maritime character of the lakefront, with the use of darker colors, ipe wood, steel and concrete.
― WHAT IT IS
A flexible lab and office facility for some of today's leading biotech companies.
The central atrium space features motorized windows, and expansive skylight, and vertical glazing systems.
Native Landscape The western edge of the site facing the lake has been carefully landscaped with plantings from a native northwest bluff palette and incorporates cast-in-place concrete and wood seating areas overlooking the lake's Cheshiahud Trail.
Center for Novel Therapeutics La Jolla, California
Client: BioMed Realty Trust, Inc. Size: 137,500 square feet Completion Date: 2019 Sustainability: LEED GoldÂŽ
A Collision of Research and Discovery Speeding up the delivery of life saving cancer treatments by blending academic with private sector research was the shared vision developed
Awards: Best Projects Award of Merit, Higher
by two faculty members at UC San Diego. A decade later, a partnership
Education/Research Category, ENR California
between BioMed Realty, UCSD, and our design team led to the award-
Region, 2019
winning Center for Novel Therapeutics (CNT). Responding to the richness in the variety of companies located within the Science Research Park, the CNT was designed to encourage chance encounters through research wings wrapping around a central atrium that creates visual and physical synergies between academic and private researchers. Today, the CNT serves as a cancer research hub and the first academic-industry drug discovery incubator site in San Diego.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
The design fosters collaboration between users with the goal of accelerating therapies from bench to bedside. A New Way of Facilitating Research
Innovative Lab Planning
Situated in the heart of an academic
Responding to the project’s
research, healthcare and life
specific demands for research and
science center ecosystem, the CNT
collaboration, the CNT project was
project had to innovate beyond the
designed by inverting the traditional
traditional lab organization to create
laboratory design—pushing the
a new generation of research and
laboratories to the outside of the
collaboratively oriented lab spaces.
building, creating views to the campus
The solution was to curate a series
and introducing generous amounts of
of individually scaled and flexible
daylight into the space. The lab office
laboratories for Moores Cancer Center,
areas were then shifted to the interior,
collocated private industry labs, and
surrounding the atrium, promoting
scaled accelerator labs and incubator
collaboration and reinforcing a
spaces. Together, these programs
sense of community. Within the lab
within the CNT project form a world-
zones, by rotating the lab support
class research institution where
90 degrees, the lab and office areas
novel therapeutics are conducted
are now adjacent to one another—
and discovered.
allowing for multiple points of access and greater visual connectivity. A secondary benefit of this arrangement is that views from the atrium into the lab spaces were created to allow the public, university and fellow researchers to see the ground breaking research being conducted within and reinforcing the project’s central concept of accelerated and shared discovery.
Trinity College, Dublin E3 Research Institute Feasibility Study Dublin, Ireland Client: Trinity College at Grand Canal Quay Completion Date: Ongoing
― WHAT IT IS
A study dedicated to defining the potential of the building site or sites for Trinity's E3 Research Institute. It is from this perspective that our team has studied E3RI in synchronization with the revised (2020) master planning guidance to deliver the high-level programmatic elements desired for a transdisciplinary institute that embraces a convergent agenda for research and discovery. To “pressure-test� the site and potential scenarios, a high-level program was developed as the model. This produced an illustrative working program consisting of research laboratory space, shared core-facility space, collaboration space and office and amenity space. For the purposes of cost-model analysis, prototypical modular spaces derived from disciplinary focused needs and which offer flexibility to accommodate a broader range of activities were developed. These are indicative space types only.
Computational
Dry Lab
Wet Lab
Heavy Wet Lab
Traditionally, space programs have been written around well understood and finite needs in support of specific research programs. As we move into the next-generation of research spaces, single discipline focus laboratories and clearly defined research needs are less and less common. Instead, we are seeing spaces that will greatly vary in their research usage and require greater flexibility to accommodate a broader range of activities. We believe that the era of true singular discipline research buildings has ended and era of convergent - melding of traditionally separated disciplines - research buildings is well underway.
The Oxford Science Park Oxford, United Kingdom Client: The Oxford Science Park ― Size: 18,775 square metres ― Completion Date: 2023 ― Sustainability: BREEAM Very Good
― WHAT IT IS
A Radical Change
A flexible laboratory and office space to radically change the future of development at Oxford Science Park.
Oxford Science Park is one of the United Kingdom’s leading science and technology parks. More than 2,500 employees enjoy the park’s beautifully landscaped grounds, benefiting from an exceptional working environment that plays to the rhythm of Oxford’s world-famous spirit of discovery, innovation and research. With this in mind, it was important that our design for a new laboratory and office environment responded to the site’s prestigious reputation. The scheme will awaken a previously undeveloped plot on the park’s northern edge and takes into consideration the neighbouring underused site for future development. The proposal is for two buildings, each arranged as two bar buildings connected by a central core to allow for flexibility of use and divisions. The proposal also allows for provisions for phasing and full use of site next-door should the site become available. This approach designs an eastern public space and unlocks the full potential of the site as a catalyst for a future train station to arrive serving the community and the site, transporting people to and from Central Oxford and positively impacting the park’s social potential for many years to come.
The concept for the façade design is derived from the experience of passing through birch trees.
― WHAT MAKES IT UNIQUE
A sustainable and eco-friendly lab which will change the future of development within The Oxford Science Park.
Sustainability We incorporated high-performance fabrics to reduce energy demand, while the adoption of passive design measures wherever possible will reduce the need for mechanical systems. Lifecycle analysis will reduce embodied energy, and with responsible resourcing to minimise environmental impacts, we are confident of reaching our targeted “Very Good� BREEAM Certification. Resilience Since the site lies in a flood risk area, most functions are lifted above the flood levels and the ground floor accommodation will be built to the highest standards to mitigate the effects of flooding.
Concept sketch showing view towards south west from Pocket Park
This is a site analysis showing the Nursery plot (far left block), Plot 16 (middle block) and Thames Water Pumping Station (on far right block) which totals 1.81 Ha (4.5 acres).
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Connecting Communities With an emphasis on community engagement, our design includes the creation of external landscaped spaces to facilitate a sense of arrival to the development and the wider park. The new railway station will increase connectivity to the area, unlocking social and economic growth in the coming years. People The buildings are arranged around a central public space to create a sense of enclosure, sunlight will flood through the site during the day ensuring a pleasant experience for all users.
Confidential Client Irving, Texas Client: Confidential Size: 110,000sf over 2 Phases Completion Date: Phase I- 2020
― WHAT IT IS
State of the art research and diagnostics laboratory for clinical testing services as well as molecular science.
The new facility provides 16,000 net square feet of clinical and R&D laboratory and support space in addition to 28,000 net square feet of office and conferencing space. The project consists of the buildout of an existing two story office building and includes a renovated main interior lobby and monumental stair.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
By pairing high-tech laboratory space and class A workplace, the facility looks to become the standard for diagnostics and research.
The new lobby will Another feature of the new lobby will be a highdefinition, 200 square foot video wall which will showcase the company’s ground-breaking results. The nexus of the facility is the genomic sequencing laboratory which, along with the adjacent high performance computational support space, will be on display to the main lobby area. This lab will include the latest instrumentation and sequencing equipment with dedicated utilities, ventilation, and lighting. All of the labs will include modular systems for reconfiguration, resilient materials for sterilization and durability, and flexible utility connections for adaptation and manipulation.
Project Orion Durham, North Carolina
Client: Confidential Client Size: 174,000 square feet Completion Date: 2021
A Mission to Detect Cancer Early After experiencing exponential growth, our client needed to create a space with room for development and heavy manufacturing while also providing a substantial amount of open and flexible space in order to allow the company to scale. This tenant build out includes diagnostic research facilities and office space to support the client’s mission of being the market leader in diagnostic testing capable of detecting cancer in asymptomatic people. Survival rates are higher when cancer is diagnosed at earlier stages. However, effective screening only exists for a few cancer types, and most cancer is detected at later stages, when survival rates are much lower. The new space exudes a spirit of innovation and thus, it’s fitting that the site is settled in Research Triangle Park (RTP), North Carolina. Founded in 1959 and located at the center of three Tier-1 research universities, RTP is the largest research park in the United States and a premier global innovation center. Its 7,000 acrea house hundreds of companies including science and technology firms, government agencies, academic institutions, startups, and nonprofits.
Takeda Research and Development Headquarters Cambridge, Massachusetts Client: Takeda Pharmaceuticals Size: 180,000 square feet Completion Date: 2015 Sustainability: LEED GoldÂŽ Awards: Award of Excellence, IFMA, 2017
― WHAT IT IS
A state-of-theart research and development environment for a global pharmaceutical company.
Takeda Research and Development Headquarters
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Designed to engineer serendipity where people run into one another by chance, which increases the chances of crossdisciplinary engagement.
According to Japanese legend, a person who folds 1,000 origami cranes will be granted one wish – a tradition embraced by Takeda as an expression of its aspiration to cure cancer. Sharing Takeda’s hope, our team felt a responsibility to create an R&D headquarters that would support the collaboration required to solve some of the world’s biggest health problems.
Project Apollo Houston, Texas
Client: Siemens
The newly renovated space for Siemens Project Apollo represents a
Size: 86,000 square feet
significant leap forward for the Process Analytics division. The new facility
Completion Date: 2020
consolidates Research & Development and Production assets in the southwest region to a singular new office and laboratory space. The R&D laboratories were previously housed in a remote location, in a facility that had well outlived its usefulness for the purpose. Project Apollo provides Siemens’ researchers and production testing staff much-needed modern laboratory space in which to carry out their work. The new facility also provides significant growth capabilities for the division. As development and testing space for gas analyzers utilized both upstream and downstream in the petroleum industry, the laboratories are outfitted with a wide array of potentially cylinder gases and gas blends to simulate real-world conditions and test the accuracy of the equipment. In addition, a variety of hazardous chemicals are used in the process, resulting in laboratories that required some significant safety factors be incorporated into the design. Fume hoods, fire-rated construction, high/ low exhaust, point-of-use exhaust, and purge exhaust modes were all incorporated into the design.
A custom 18ft floor-mounted fume hood with horizontal sliding glass doors was integrated into the project for failure testing of equipment. The planning concept of the facility focused on locating secure spaces and higher-risk spaces to the rear of the building, away from offices and more public areas, while providing efficiency in the building systems and efficiency in workflow between labs. Despite the heavy safety and security requirements for the spaces, borrowed lites and exterior windows were able to be integrated into the design to enhance occupant comfort. Additionally, flexible lab casework allows for reconfiguration of the lab spaces as testing or research needs require.
Illumina Foster City Foster City, California Client: BioMed Realty Trust, Inc. Size: 360,000 square feet Completion Date: 2017 Sustainability: LEED Silver ÂŽ
― WHAT IT IS
A collaborative new workplace to complement Illumina's start-up mindset.
Illumina is a meeting-intensive company, so conference room space was a huge priority. Each building has thematic conference rooms that include warm-up or cool-down spaces outside of meeting rooms for groups to use before and after meetings. The meeting rooms have a curved design to symbolize the company’s work with DNA and organic materials.
Illumina Foster City
A global genomics leader, Illumina provides comprehensive next generation sequencing solutions to the research, clinical, and applied markets. Illumina technology is responsible for generating a large majority of the world's sequencing data.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
The campus focuses on synergistic work and lab spaces- a feature many traditional life science buildings do not have.
Biogen Lab of the Future Cambridge, Massachusetts Client: Biogen Size: 95,000 square feet Completion Date: 2018
We began this project with a strategic study of their science, operations and future estimates of growth – out of which the “Future Lab” concept was developed. We then conducted a 6 week course in creativity with a group of scientists and other stakeholders – socializing the new design and planning concepts, getting feedback, and helping to support the change management that was required to introduce relatively radical (at the time) design ideas to the scientists.
― WHAT IT IS
The original mid-90’s design of their research labs was getting in the way of their ability to do better science.
Biogen Lab of the Future
→ Our goal was to treat their labs like workplaces – using principles of collaboration, flexibility, transparency, and daylight to make research environments not only more effective for science, but also more attractive to top talent.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
The client asked us to give them an R&D environment that would allow them to be more innovative, reduce the time to bring life-saving drugs to market, and adapt more easily to change.
JLABS @ MaRS Discovery District Toronto, Ontario Client: Johnson & Johnson JLABS Size: 40,000 square feet Completion Date: 2016
― WHAT IT IS
A strategic life science incubator at the core of Canada’s largest research cluster.
“The project to transform and fit-out the floor into the first Canadian location for JLABS, budgeted at $18.3 million, came in on time and more than a million dollars under budget.” Scott Mabury, VP of Operations, U of T
JLABS @ MaRS Discovery District
This was the first JLABS outside of the US, famous for the “no-stringsattached” arrangement, allowing resident companies to maintain complete entrepreneurial freedom as they build value. Nested in the West Tower of the MaRS Centre, the lab and support space footprint can house up to 50 start-up biotech companies.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
It provides a capital-efficient, resource-rich environment where emerging companies can transform.
Bayer CropScience - Biologics, Vegetable Seeds, & Greenhouse West Sacramento, California Client: Bayer CropScience
Bayer CropScience acquired the former Affymetrix silicon chip
Size: Phase I (Biologics) - 80,000 square feet; Phase
manufacturing facility with the goal of converting it into a
II (BVS) - 26,000 square feet; Greenhouse - 27,000
global center for agricultural research and development. We
square feet
designed the facility to house agricultural biologics research
Completion Date: Phase I - 2014; Phase II - 2015; Greenhouse - 2015 Awards: 2015, Design Build Institute of America, Award of Distinction
including: QA/QC labs, Chemistry Labs, APHIS Containment Labs, Formulations and Fermentation Labs and a centralized Glass Wash and Media Prep area. The program also included a refresh of the public and common use areas, a planned future expansion for the Vegetable Seeds Division, and a Pilot Plant. To accommodate Bayer’s highly compressed project timeline, we recommended a multi-phased approach and cultivated collaborative relationships with the users, owner’s representatives, the City of West Sacramento Building & Planning Department, engineering design consultants and the general contractor.
Clockwise from Top Right: Lab space; Views into the lab area; Touch down station
Institute for Regenerative Medicine R&D Headquarters Westborough, Massachusetts Client: Confidential Pharma Client Size: 250,000 square feet Completion Date: 2020
Building Community. When client established the Institute of Regenerative Medicine, it needed to find a home for this new global hub for regenerative medicine and cell therapy research – a home that would unite two previously distinct companies under one roof and support the Institute’s dynamic growth. We transformed a suburban office building into a highly flexible, stateof-the-art life sciences facility that provides a collaborative environment in support of the Institute’s mission and culture. To create a sense of community within the building’s large floor plates, we introduced a Main Street that weaves through the center of building, connecting the different neighborhoods organized along the path. People are drawn to the activity of informal meeting areas, coffee stations, collaboration zones, and the light-filled atrium at the heart of the building. Laboratory environments and workspaces are visible throughout, displaying the innovative research taking place and uniting people around the therapies being developed.
There’s no place like home. By bringing together two different companies under roof, we were presented with the unique opportunity to define the culture of this new institute and build upon its strengths. We helped them articulate the core values and mission of the institute, which guided every design decision as early as site selection. After evaluating multiple sites against the project’s guiding principles, we determined that the suburban Westborough location would allow the company to retain its core workforce while supporting recruitment strategies that were critical to the company’s growth
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An integrated workplace that unites the cultures of different companies in a flexible environment designed to grow with the company.
Celgene Avilomics Research Division Offices, Labs and Conference Center Cambridge, Massachusetts
Client: Celgene ― Size: 58,500 square feet ― Completion Date: 2015
In order to be closer to the innovation hub of Cambridge, Celgene recently relocated the home of its Avilomics Research division from its original location in Bedford. The design of this new space, located amongst a community of biopharmaceutical research and development companies at 200 Cambridge Park Drive, encourages creativity through embedded collaboration areas in the open office layout. Views of alewife reservation and access to natural light were key in the positioning of this open office scheme. The communicating stair provides access to hospitality elements, collaboration and meeting spaces. The internal labs on the second level are organized with shared access and transparency to the open labs. A standout feature of the project is the collaboration zone, and interactive, 300-degree meeting space designed to comfortably accommodate research teams while they present and discuss their work.
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Home base for a clinicalstage biotech company focused on design and development to treat autoimmune diseases and cancer.
Quest Diagnostics Lab and Office Dallas, Texas Client: Quest Diagnostics Size: 55,000 square feet Completion Date: 2016
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A duality of clean and open workenvironment for the office use with complex layouts for intricate lab functions.
Because of our laboratory experience, they approached our team with the challenge of creating practical and effective spaces for their employees.
The design includes a highly functional multipurpose room allowing them to have two different functions ongoing simultaneously.
Section 02. Selected Vivarium Projects
Vivarium Expertise
F
For more than 20 years, Perkins
Agriculture (USDA) for research and development
and Will has held specialized
of diagnostics for foreign animal disease.
expertise in vivarium and high containment facility design. We offer unique and valuable expertise in the design of
vivarium facilities across the country. We design change-responsive research models within science facilities that inspire innovation, accelerate discovery, and enhance energy performance.
Our team’s recent experience ranges from small renovation projects to 100,000 square foot facilities and includes the following species: insects, rodents, small mammals, large animals (hoof-stock) and non-human primates. Many of these facilities support or include containment (ABSL-2, ABSL-3 & ABSL-4 ,BSL-3Ag) environments. Our portfolio includes
Our team has had the opportunity to work on
transgenic, specific pathogen free (SPF) and GLP
a number of recent projects centered around
facilities. Our facilities represent award winning
veterinary diagnostics and research. In addition
design – Turnkey Facility of the year in 2010, 2012,
to the new Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic
2014, unique solutions (Chimp Haven Primate
Laboratory (TVMDL) in College Station, we are
Sanctuary) and highly sustainable/ energy
currently finalizing the design of the new Animal
efficient buildings (TCH Neurological Research
Disease and Diagnostic Laboratory for the state
Institute).
of Washington (WADDL). Located at Washington State University, the new facility will provide state-of-the-art laboratory and office space that will significantly enhance WADDL’s research capabilities. We also have two major veterinary diagnostics and disease research facilities, one of which has just finished completion and the other of which is currently under construction. The Global Health Research Complex (GHRC) is located adjacent to the new TVMDL building in College Station and provides Texas A&M University with advanced capabilities for research on veterinary disease and diagnostics. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS)
Recent projects include stand-alone vivaria facilities supporting larger institutional research programs (Memphis Bioworks, UTMB Building 17), state-of-the-art rodent vivariums supporting larger research facilities (TCH Neuroscience Research Institute, University of Washington School of Medicine, University of Washington Life Sciences Building, Northwestern University) as well as large animal facilities to be utilized for preclinical medical device testing and vaccine, diagnostic testing, and disease countermeasures development (TAMU GHRC, TAMU TVMDL, TAMU TIPS, DHS NBAF).
National Bio and Agro Defense Facility (NBAF) is
Perkins and Will projects have been awarded
a replacement for the aging Plum Island Animal
three of the last ten Turnkey Facility of the Year
Disease Center and will provide enhanced
awards, which recognizes the best vivarium facility
capabilities to DHS and the U.S. Department of
in the country.
We are leaders in vivarium design with three Turnkey Facility of the Year Awards in the last decade.
High Containment Expertise The Houston office of Perkins and Will is home
the latest thoughts and trends, as well as the
to the firm’s expertise in high containment
latest insight into evolving design standards
facility design. Our team has been directly
and regulations. Perkins and Will maintains
involved in and led planning and design for
a comprehensive Lessons Learned document
some of the most recent high containment
for biocontainment facilities. The document
projects in the country totaling over 800,000
is updated continually with input from each
square feet and well over $1 billion in
on-going project, and utilized as a QA/QC tool
construction. The NBAF, noted above, includes
internally. By referencing these documented
the nation’s first BSL-4 laboratory for research
lessons learned, we ensure each new project
work with large livestock species. Projects
learns from the lessons of the last, in an
such as BRF and NBAF represent some of our
effort to continually improve our designs with
most recent high containment work, but our
each new project. The firm has continued
portfolio also includes two BSL-4 projects
to acquire new expertise and grow its high
for the University of Texas Medical Branch at
containment expertise in other offices around
Galveston (UTMB) and a BSL-4 facility for DHS
the country. However with Perkins and Will’s
at Fort Detrick in Maryland. Our team members
service philosophy of “bring the experts to the
have been involved in numerous other high
project”, the Houston Texas office of Perkins
containment facilities, including recent BSL-3
and Will continues to be the go-to for expertise
work for the University of Washington, USC,
on vivarium and high containment projects
UCLA, Texas Tech, and DHS. Our team has had
around the globe.
unprecedented success in turning over high containment facilities that are completed and commissioned in a timely manner. The Perkins and Will high containment design practice continues to touch a multitude of projects both nationally and internationally. We are engaged in working with some of the most forward-thinking government agencies and research universities. Our current experience with peer agencies and institutions in the design of biocontainment facilities provides us with a perspective on
We take the time to understand our clients’ visions and needs. We bring the right expertise and experience to your projects, resonating with your goals.
Clockwise from Top Left: University of Washington School of Medicine, South Lake Union, Phase 3.1
From cages to aquatics, and bison to chimpanzees, we know what it takes to design and deliver these highly specialized programs.
→ Harvard University Biolabs, Bellono Aquatics
� National Institutes of Health, Porter Neuroscience Research Institute
Clockwise from Top Left: 1-3, University of Texas Southwestern, Laboratory Research and Support Building; 4, University of Texas Medical
Clockwise from Top Left: Texas A&M University, Global Health Research Complex
Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute Houston, Texas Client: Texas Children’s Hospital Size: 400,000 square feet (37, 161 square meters) Completion Date: 2010 Sustainability: LEED Gold® Awards: Turnkey Facility of the Year, ALN Magazine, 2012 Building Team Silver Award, Building Design+Construction, 2011 About: This is a research-based center of excellence in pediatric neurosciences with the vision to house
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interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research. 19 principal multidisciplinary investigators and teams of 130 scientists sit here. The tower consists of five levels dedicated to research, two levels of vivarium, and the remaining levels house researchers from MD Anderson Cancer Research and Baylor College of Medicine.
Ground-breaking facility that combines clinical, educational, and research programs focused on children with mental or neurological disorders.
The “collaboratories” as the laboratories are dubbed, are flooded with natural light while research occurs in an open and flexible environment. The building features a twisting tower with leaning columns that string together to visually form the double helix of a DNA strand, signifying the unification of science and research. This twisting tower hosts collaboration spaces with panoramic views of the city.
“This truly is a life changing building, not just for us, the occupants, but also for the children and families who will benefit from the work that this building inspires.” - Dr. Huda Y. Zoghbi, Director of the Texas Children’s Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute and is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator
→ Two researchers previously housed in siloed labs have moved toward trials with adults and children to modify disease progression of Rett Syndrome.
Texas Institute for Preclinical Studies College Station, Texas Client: Texas A&M University Size: 105,000 square feet Completion Date: 2009 Awards: Turnkey Facility of the Year, ALN Magazine, 2010 The facility includes a large animal (pig, sheep, and cow models) surgery suite with two operating rooms, ICU's, prep rooms, and sponsor labs. The imaging center includes a 7 Tesla large Bore MRI and a 3T MRI. The facility includes three large outdoor holding paddocks of approximately nine acres with support buildings. Indoor holding facilities include 18 large animal holding rooms each capable of accomodating 12 animals for a total capacity of over 200 animals. The office for technology commercialization and nine biomedical research labs are located on the second floor. The facility also includes a 140-seat auditorium.
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A core Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) center for translational research and preclinical studies.
"This is the first time in history the quality of the facility matches the quality of the people who work in it." -Dr. Brett Giroir, Texas A&M Vice Chancellor for Research
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As a result of improved synergies and integrated capabilities, the Institute enhances competitiveness for sponsored research from state, federal, and commercial entities.
Its primary purpose is to conduct medical device and combination product safety studies in large animal models. The core imaging center associated with TIPS participates in clinical and preclinical research.
Memphis Bioworks Research Tower Memphis, Tennessee Client: Memphis Bioworks Foundation Size: 230,000 square feet (21,368 square meters) Completion Date: 2013 Awards: Turnkey Facility of the Year, ALN Magazine, 2014 About: This facility provides much-needed preclinical research services and models focused on assisting medical device, pharmaceutical, chemical, and biotech companies in bringing products to market. Highlights include a large animal surgical suite with pre and post-op rooms, imaging, high throughput wash facility and a well-coordinated
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interstitial floor.
Phase 1 of a biomedical research park in partnership with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
Designed for LEED Silver certification, this designation continues to be unique for vivaria. This rodents, aquatics, and large animal vivarium features a number of energy-efficient components.
Section 02. Selected High Containment Projects
Risk Groups Risk Group 1
No or low individual and community risk
A microorganism that is unlikely to cause human disease or animal disease.
Risk Group 2
Moderate individual risk, low community risk
A pathogen that can cause human or animal disease, but is unlikely to be a serious hazard to laboratory workers, the community, livestock or the environment. Laboratory exposures may cause serious infection, but effective treatment and preventative measures are available and the risk of spread of infection is limited.
Risk Group 3
High individual risk, low community risk
A pathogen that usually causes serious human or animal disease, but does not ordinarily spread from one infected individual to another. Effective treatment and preventative measures are available.
Risk Group 4
High individual and community risk
A pathogen that usually causes serious human or animal disease and that can be readily transmitted from one individual to another, directly or indirectly. Effective treatment and preventative measures are not usually available.
Biosafety Levels Risk Group
Biosafety Level
Laboratory Type
Laboratory Practices
Safety Equipment
1
BSL-1 (Basic)
Basic teaching, research
Good microbiological techniques (GMT)
None; Open bench work
2
BSL-2 (Basic)
Primary health services; diagnostic services, research
GMT plus protective clothing, biohazard sign
Open bench plus Biological Safety Cabinet (BSC) for potential aerosols
3
BSL-3 (Containment)
Special diagnostic services, research
BSL-2 plus special clothing, controlled access, directional airflow
BSC and/or other primary devices for all activities
4
BSL-4 (Maximum Containment)
Dangerous pathogen units
BSL-3 plus airlock entry, shower exit, special waste disposal
Class III BSC or positive pressure suits in conjunction with Class II BSC’s, double-ended autoclave (through the wall), filtered air
Engineering Features for Biosafety Levels BSL-2 Laboratory
ABSL-2 Animal Facility
BSL-3 Laboratory
ABSL-3 Animal Facility
BSL-3Ag Animal Facility
BSL-4 Lab/Animal (Suit)
Airlock/Vestibule Entry Access Control Devices Personnel Shower-Out Hand Washing Sink Hands Free Hand Washing Sink Autoclave Available Pass-through Autoclave Dunk Tank and/or Fumig Chamber Single-Pass Air, Directional Airflow HEPA Filtered Exhaust HEPA Filtered Supply Supply/Exhaust Interlock Gas-Tight Dampers (Room Level) Visual Airflow/Pressure Monitor HEPA Plumbing Vents Effluent Decontamination Vacuum Line Protection Monolithic Walls & Ceiling Seamless Flooring Airtight Construction Breathing Air System Chemical Shower Required by BMBL (5th ed.) Not required by BMBL (5th ed.), however, generally considered as an enhancement
National Bio and Agro Defense Facility Manhattan, Kansas Client: United States Department of Homeland Security Size: 708,000 square feet Completion Date: 2021 Biosafety Levels: ACL-2, BSL-2, ACL-3, BSL-3, BSL-3Ag, BSL-4, BSL-4 Large Animal The NBAF is an integrated foreign animal and zoonotic disease research, development, and testing facility which will enhance the nation's capabilities to ensure agricultural animal health. The facility provides a full range of research space types and capabilities for agricultural pathogen study never before seen in the United States. As the nation's first BSL-4 facility capable of handling in vivo research with large animal models, NBAF will allow researchers to study some of the world's most destructive newly emerging diseases, such as the Nipah and Hendra viruses. Meanwhile the BSL-3Ag and BSL-3 portions of the building will study the more common foreign animal and zoonotic diseases that continue to threaten public health and agricultural economies around the world.
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A high containment facility of unprecedented scope that will allow researchers to study foreign animal and emerging diseases in a state-of-the-art facility designed to the highest standards of biosafety and biosecurity.
The United States' first facility capable of in vivo studies with large livestock in a BSL-4 environment. This will become the new home for research of foreign animal disease in the United States. The NBAF will replace the aging Plum Island Animal Disease Center off the coast of New York. The NBAF's effluent Decontamination System consisting of eleven 7,500 gallon tanks is the current record holder for "Largest Effluent Decontamination System in the world."
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
As a key national asset, NBAF will become the international icon for biocontainment around the world.
The NBAF includes 100% N+1 redundancy on all building systems with the capability to remain off the power grid for up to 14 days without outside power and 24 hours without off-site domestic water.
“The NBAF will be a key component in our joint effort with USDA to advance research, which is critical to the security of our nation’s food supply and agricultural economy." Under Secretary Dr. Reginald Brothers, Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate
To achieve a more efficient work day, the NBAF includes a lunch room inside the containment area of the building. This is made possible by carefully integrating the building design with protocols required both prior to exiting higher risk BSL-3 areas and at the entry to the lunch room. The lunch room is visible from the lobby and connects visually with the informal break area outside containment with a view out through the front of the building.
Global Health Research Complex College Station, Texas Client: Texas A&M University Size: 107,000 square feet Completion Date: 2020 Biosafety Levels: ACL-2, BSL-2, ABSL-2, ACL-3, BSL-3, ABSL-3, BSL-3Ag The GHRC's research programs are centered around the prevention of emerging and infectious diseases affecting both livestock and humans, bioterrorism countermeasures, food safety, and disease diagnostics and detection. It is one of the few research facilities in the world that has dedicated training capabilities for both BSL-3Ag large animal and BSL-3 laboratory research protocols and practices. It is meant to be a catalyst to fuel synergistic connections between the University's biomedical, veterinary, engineering, and health programs.
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A modern, cuttingedge biocontainment facility to study high consequence infectious diseases.
Global Health Research Complex
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
One of only a very small handful of modern BSL-3Ag facilities in North America. The GHRC is designed to allow researchers to works with a wide range of species, from mice to bison.
“This facility is really a crown jewel, not just for the Division of Research for Texas A&M University and the state of Texas, but really a very important asset for the nation and for our global partners in addressing disease." -Dr. Mark Barteau, Vice President for Research, Texas A&M University
National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center Fort Detrick, Maryland Client: United States Department of Homeland Security Size: 160,000 square feet Completion Date: 2010 Biosafety Levels: BSL-2, ABSL-2, BSL-3, ABSL-3, BSL-4, ABSL-4 The NBACC was the first new building project for a newly created department in the President's cabinet, the Department of Homeland Security. Created to better integrate efforts across other government agencies, this new facility was designed for collaboration with the FBI and others in the effort to analyze evidence from any future bioterrorism event. The facility also provides research space for study and development of vaccines and treatment countermeasures for select agents that may be weaponized. The NBACC is part of a new biodefense quad on Fort Detrick comprised of sister facilities operated by the NIH and the U.S. Army. Awards: Mega Project Excellence in Construction Award, Associated Building and Contractors- Metro Washington and Virginia Chapters, 2009
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Home to the leading Federal agency for bioforensic analysis from investigations of biocrime and terrorism.
“Facility design is brilliant, knocked my socks off.” Maureen McCarthy, Director, Office of Research and Development, Department of Homeland Security
The facility includes meeting spaces designed to Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) standards, a requirement for processing classified information.
National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center
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Researchers here developed advanced DNA sequencing methods to determine the identity of a 4,000 year old Egyptian mummified head, solving a mystery dating back to its discovery in 1915.
↑ Large windows give laboratory staff a view of the outdoors. Even researchers in the BSL-4 areas enjoy a view to the natural landscape outside.
→ Created quietly a few months after the anthrax attacks, the NBACC was intended to be the principal outpost to handle agents such as Anthrax and Ebola virus.
← The NBACC is the first stop for collected evidence from a suspected bioterrorism event in the United States. In 2013, NBACC confirmed the presence of Ricin in letters mailed to government officials.
Galveston National Laboratory Galveston, Texas Client: The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston Size: 194,000 square feet Completion Date: 2008 Biosafety Levels: ACL-2, BSL-2, ABSL-2, ACL-3, BSL-3, ABSL-3, BSL-4, ABSL-4 The GNL was funded by the National Institutes of Health as one of two national biocontainment laboratories following the attacks of 9/11. Researchers at the GNL work on therapeutics, vaccines, and diagnostics to combat
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emerging infectious diseases. The facility includes a full gamut of laboratory spaces and capabilities for the study of high consequence diseases affecting human health. Once construction was complete, the GNL was commissioned and approved to start work with BSL-4 pathogens in less than two years, a feat almost unheard of for a facility of this complexity.
This prominent biocontainment research facility provides much needed high containment and BSL-4 laboratory space for researchers from around the United States.
UTMB has been on the forefront of fighting infectious disease since the early 20th Century, and the GNL continues that tradition as a national resource comprising an important part of our country’s research infrastructure. This facility was the first BSL-4/ABSL-4 in a high rise building. It was designed for hurricane resistance, successfully weathering several major storms since its completion. Located in the heart of a busy academic campus, security requirements were successfully met without a perimeter fence.
Researchers at the GNL developed the first aerosol vaccine shown to neutralize the Ebola virus in non-human primates.
Galveston National Laboratory
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Work inside the facility focuses on developing therapies, vaccines, and diagnostic tests for microbes that could be used by bioterrorists.
Robert E. Shope BSL-4 Laboratory Galveston, Texas Client: The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston Size: 12,000 square feet Completion Date: 2003 Biosafety Levels: BSL-4, ABSL-4 The Robert E. Shope BSL-4 Laboratory was the predecessor to the Galveston National Laboratory, and is connected to the GNL via sky bridge. The Shope Lab was born from UTMB's reputation as a recognized center for the study of tropical and emerging diseases, as the logical next step to advance the level of research possible. As the first BSL-4 laboratory built on an academic campus, the funding and approval of the Shope Lab was a unique achievement at the time. The facility took on a whole new importance following the attacks of 9/11 as the push to study countermeasures for bioterrorism suddenly became a national priority.
― WHAT IT IS
A BSL-4 laboratory facility designed for operational flexibility to study the world's most harmful pathogens.
� This project includes significant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
← Redundant MEP systems, intricate waste systems, and a high level of building security result in an extremely complex and concentrated lab space.
↓ The Shope lab is an addition to a historic building on campus, and was required to undergo review by the Texas Historical Commission.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
The Shope Lab was the first of the modern generation of BSL4 Labs in the United States.
Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory (TVMDL) College Station, Texas Client: The Texas A&M University System Size: 93,000 square feet Completion Date: 2016 Biosafety Levels: BSL-2, BSL-3, ABSL-3 Awards: Award for Project Excellence (APEX), General Contractor of Houston, 2019
1 of 3 projects designed for TVMDL; repeat work from a relationship dating back to 2009. The TVMDL has received some of the planet's largest mammals; elephants and giraffes have been brought in from zoos nearby Houston and Dallas on more than one occasion.
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The State of Texas's front line of defense for rapidly identifying the outbreak of a high-consequence agricultural pathogen.
Aarhus
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As one of the highest volume veterinary labs in the nation, case loads average more than 200,000 per year.
"A remarkable facility, by far the best vet diagnostic lab in the country. Others may try to build better, but it will be very difficult to do so." - Chancellor John Sharp
Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute Los Angeles, California Client: University of Southern California Size: 126,000 square feet Completion Date: 2013 Biosafety Levels: BSL-2, BSL-3, ABSL-3 The Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute is located on the Health Sciences Campus of the University of Southern California, northeast of downtown Los Angeles. This building initiates a new design direction for the Keck School of Medicine. Phase I of this new Research Quadrangle, linking the academic and clinical sections of the campus to either side, will serve as a state-of-the-art laboratory facility for basic and clinical neuroscientists. A vivarium and NMR suite are located in the basement. The ground floor includes three laboratory suites, a large conference room, admin offices, a cafe, and a loading dock. The balance of the building houses 24 laboratory suites, support space, and office suites with mechanical space located in the rooftop penthouse.
― WHAT IT IS
The labs are designed to allow for in vitro and in vivo research on a variety of pathogens.
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The building responds in many practical and energy efficient ways to the client's program, site context, and the climate of Southern California.
"Perkins and Will pulled together a strong team of designers, engineers and other consultant who had a good understanding and knowledge of the technical requirements of our facility. Perkins and Will led this coordination effort well. Our project faced many unforeseen challenges along the way, and the project team, led by Perkins and Will, consistently rose to these challenges, and devised good solutions." -Brian E. Henderson, M.D., Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
South Lake Union School of Medicine Phase 3.1 Seattle, Washington Client: University of Washington Size: 312,000 square feet Completion Date: 2013 Biosafety Levels: BSL-2, BSL-3, ABSL-3 The new research tower was designed to achieve the School of Medicine's vision of building a highly competitive research facility that would meet the growing needs of cutting edge research and science teaching, investigation and discovery. The open BSL-2 labs are located along the building perimeter, where they receive maximum daylight and views. Scientists' offices were pulled out of the lab areas and relocated; providing unobstructed views from offices to lab areas. The BSL-3/ABSL-3 suite is located on the topmost inhabited floor of the building for maximum security. The suite was designed for work with select agents and the planning allows the facility to easily grow and shrink the area dedicated to select agent work. Awards: P3 Innovation Project Award, All Phases, The National Council for Public-Private Partnerships (NCPPP), 2014
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A 7-story research tower designed to facilitate collaboration and transparency among researchers.
Select agent studies require more stringent security requirements, registration of employees, and often unique protective equipment requirements. Via program adjustment to the access control points within the suite, and simple relocation of PPE to the newly designated vestibule space, the select agent area of the facility can grow and shrink with no physical modification to the lab.
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The facility provides a significant increase in research square footage for the school. Designed to be open for collaboration and flexibility, the labs also have expansive views to the exterior and close access to office space directly outside the bench space.
↑ A progressive lab planning model was implemented to provide flexibility in designating select agent areas in the BSL-3/ABSL-3.
→ The BSL-3/ABSL-3 suite is designed with a racetrack corridor around it, providing the opportunity for views to the exterior and views into the labs along a clear tour route.
→ With over 400 researchers working and interacting in labs designed for immunology, rheumatology, BSL-3, a vivarium, vision science, and CERID research, this arrangement also adds an extra level of safety and oversight.
Section 02. Selected Oligonucleotide, Gene Therapy, and cGMP Projects
Oligonucleotide facilities
Our expertise Oligonucleotide manufacturing is part of the spectrum of facilities that Perkins and Will has designed. Drawing on our expertise for cGMP design, gene therapy facility design, and chemistry manufacturing facility design, these are often components of the comprehensive facilities we design for academic institutions and gene therapy companies. Our ability to design chemical manufacturing facilities and our experience in flammable solvent management has served us well to design oligonucleotide facilities that are cGMP compliant and efficient business operations. Utilizing our laboratory planning and manufacturing planning skills, we bring our experiences to each project along with our specialist consultants to form an expert team to manage the complexities of oligonucleotide production. Working along side our consultant process engineers, we strive to understand client process and business needs, design facilities that advance the science of oligonucleotide production. Most of our facilities are imbedded in larger projects where different production technologies are required to manufacture the final drug product. These facilities are pilot scale or in-process materials provided as a part of a manufacturing production train. We skillfully align the different manufacturing technologies to create synergies of logistics, production, and quality testing to improve speed to market without impacting product quality or process compliance.
As with many facilities, the primary technology used in producing a commercial product is flanked by key spaces which enable this process to become efficient, development labs to create process steps, logistics spaces to manage key reagents, testing laboratories to test manufactured products, and engineering logistics embrace the primary manufacturing technology and create an integrated solution for research or commercial products. Drawing from our experiences with the spectrum of cGMP facilities we design, we bring the best of our design practices to the chemical process to make oligonucleotides and surround that technology with well designed support facilities that have served clients well it achieve their business and science objectives.
We take the time to understand our clients’ visions and needs. We study the context and create novel solutions.
Gene therapy Gene therapy has been a transformative force in medicine. The concept that the insertion or modification of genes to create human therapeutic modalities has migrated from altering surrogate cells for the production of complex human proteins to creating specialized human treatments has greatly advanced human medicine. Personalized medicine in the form of CAR-T cells has become almost commonplace with hospitals and companies competing for patient populations based upon the routine practice of medicine. Stem cell therapies and gene replacement therapies are the next wave of human medicine and face similar challenges as processes advance towards standardization to ensure patient safety. As these different technologies have developed, regulatory agencies have also advanced their thinking, and facilities that were once novel are now substandard as
That presents new challenges of containing living organisms with infectious possibilities. This novel approach has added a new layer of concern to facility design were the facility itself must both be a barrier for the competing priorities of keeping out contaminants for product safety and keeping in living organisms for process biocontainment. This concern differentiates gene therapy facilities in all forms from more traditional protein
guidance documents promote concepts of more traditional
manufacturing.
pharmaceutical manufacturing.
Perkins & Will has been on the forefront of designing gene
Gene therapy technologies are very robust and encompass
therapy facilities. Working with an array of institutions
a variety of techniques necessary to create these novel therapies. Utilizing chemical, viral, and bacterial plasmid processes, the different elements of the gene therapy product are created in a way that needs to be efficient and also needs to ensure the utmost safety of the patient population. Concerns for product contamination comes from the outside environment, as was seen in traditional cell culture processes, but also from the novel technologies and open process steps needed to create the transformed genes of today’s treatments.
from Universities, the NIH, and commercial entities, we have designed facilities that create efficiencies of operations based upon each client’s unique process approach while always keeping operator and patient safety as the number one priority for our design. Our in-house scientist has 25+ years of FDA-regulated manufacturing experience which he brings to each project to ensure these attributes while helping clients manage operational, process, safety, and regulatory concerns. Although there is some commonality between projects, every project has its proprietary approaches and unique challenges to be managed. Utilizing our in-house extensive and successful experience of bring biological products to US, EU/UK, and ROW markets, we develop facilities and strategies to help our clients advance quickly through design and construction while never losing sight of the need for patient safety along with efficient facility approvals for clinical investigative studies and commercial manufacturing facilities. We listen to our clients carefully, bring the best from each successful project to the table, and craft unique solutions to the complex problem of designing research and manufacturing facilities for these novel therapeutic modalities.
↑ The Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts
← Editas, New Headquarters, Cambridge, Massachusetts
cGMP Planning and Design cGMP facilities represent unique intersection of novel science, innovative design, intensive engineering, and demanding regulatory oversight. Unlike typical environments for science, these spaces must adhere to principles that protect both product and patient alike – requiring that they meet a “higher standard.” Perkins and Will approaches every facility attuned to its unique functional and rigid compliance requirements, yet is still focused on creating a workplace that incorporates new work trends, attracting and retaining talent. Leveraging our experience in science and workplace programming, laboratory design, and GMP expertise, we focus on the elements that best serve the people and the products they produce in these facilities.
We have worked with academic centers, health care providers and commercial entities on a wide array of GMP facilities. These range from integrated pilot plants, through
cGMP Services nj User Requirement Specifications (URS) nj Manufacturing process review and documentation nj Clean room system recommendations and life Cycle Review
stand-alone cell therapy production laboratories, up to controlled dedicated spaces for cGMP operations and support. We have designed for renovations as well as new construction, integrating user requirements, our regulatory knowledge and each client’s philosophy on compliance. Critical elements include maintaining product segregation, developing process flow control with clear pathways, and
nj Preconstruction planning and budget analysis
discerning clear-cut separation between activity/user areas/
nj Detailed programming and analysis of
business entities. The clarity and efficient functionality of our
alternative design concepts nj Process flow documentation and analyses nj Risk assessments and quality analyses with documentation
plans are for critical GMP operations. Our successful FDA and regulatory review experience applies to macro (whole buildings) and micro (integrated facilities in existing facilities) GMP operations and process
nj Process equipment planning and analysis
flow planning:
nj Specialty utility systems planning an analysis
nj We know that successful validation and regulatory review cycles
nj Conceptual planning, Basis of Design, and Test Fits nj Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) and construction plans nj Type C or other regulatory meeting planning and support nj Engineering coordination for clean room mechanical and utility systems nj Turnkey project coordination and clean room vendors nj Qualification and validation planning
require full commitment to a schedule due to the long-lead on client side process; construction and turnover are but a small part of an entire effort. nj We manage coherent documentation control, process design reviews and information management which is implicit in cGMP environments and our own care in handling of project deliverables, records, and close-out can contribute tremendously to the success of the client’s regulatory efforts. nj We have the programming expertise and flow analysis that can aid in helping a client evaluate, proof, evaluate and refine a preexisting master plan or basis of design to further the success of a client’s business. nj We understand the often complex and subtle design issues that can support successful FDA reviews.
Selected GMP Experience Biogen
Eisai Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
- cGMP Formulation Suite Renovations
Cytotoxic cGMP Manufacturing
- Process Chemistry Laboratory
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Hopkinton, Massachusetts Private Biotech Company
Research Triangle Park,
- Central cGMP Warehouse Processing cGMP Suite Renovations
Cambridge, Massachusetts
North Carolina
Hopkinton, Massachusetts
Boston Heart Diagnostics
Genzyme
Merrimack Pharmaceuticals
Clinical Lab
- cGMP Global Operations
cGMP Manufacturing Space
Framingham, Massachusetts Cell Signaling Technology
Facility
Center - QC Raw Materials Sampling Laboratory Northborough, Massachusetts
Beverly, Massachusetts
- QC and Microbiology Laboratory
Immunotherapy Manufacturing Facility Seattle, Washington
Cambridge, Massachusetts Private Medical Technology Manufacturer Sterilization Facility
Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Antibody Production Laboratories
Dendreon Corporation
R&D Headquarters
Marlborough, Massachusetts
National Institutes of Health - Division of Transfusion Medicine Cell Processing Facility
- cGMP Storage facility
- Surgical Medicine Production Facility
Allston, Massachusetts
Bethesda, Maryland
- Gene Therapy Laboratory Framingham, Massachusetts
Philips Electronics North
Erytech
Just Cell Therapy Facility
Manufacturing Facility
Medical Device Facility
Office, Laboratory, &
Plymouth, Minnesota
Princeton, New Jersey
Manufacturing Facility
Ra’anana, Israel Private Biotech Company Universal Cells Viral Vector Facility Seattle, Washington
Andover, Massachusetts
Lonza Biologics - 40 cGMP Freezer Project
South Boston, Massachusetts
R&D Headquarters
America - Lifeline
- Andover Lab Master Plan
Seattle, Washington
- cGMP R&D Extrusion Laboratory
Teva Pilot Plant
Pfizer
Renovation
Private Consumer Goods Company
University of Virginia
- WFI Plant - GMP Warehouse Renovations
Pinn Hall cGMP Laboratory Charlottesville, Virginia
Our GMP planning is led by Senior Lab Planning Strategist James Levin, DVM, DACLAM. Jim is a GMP facilities expert with over 25 years of experience shared between biopharmaceutical research and manufacturing, biocontainment and animal research, with an emphasis on facility design and process flow management. In his career, Jim has supported facility design projects for private industry, academic and government institutions, including: Avant Immunotherapy cGMP Quality Control and Product Release Labs, NIH cGMP Cell Culture Manufacturing Suites, Boston University cGMP Clinical Trial Suite, United Therapeutics – cGMP Drug Substance Manufacturing facility for Cell Culture Biologic and Drug Therapy, cGMP Drug Product Manufacturing facility for injectable and inhaled therapeutic products, and cGMP Medical Device Manufacturing facility for nebulizer therapy, among many others.
National Institutes of Health Building 10 E-Wing Renovation Bethesda, Maryland Client: National Institutes of Health ― Size: 250,000 square feet
Perkins and Will was engaged by
in the clinical research programs,
the National Institutes of Health to
which incorporate specialty lab
develop a comprehensive Program
programs that support the Clinical
of Requirements, concept design,
Center’s Transfusion Medicine
and construction documents for
Program’s (DTM) patient and donor
the second half of the Building 10
aphaeresis and BSL-2 laboratories
revitalization, the E-Wing represents
currently housed in the West Distal
the last phase of the two phase
Wings for clinical research programs.
adaptive/reuse project consisting of the F- and E-Wings.
The project represents a complex phasing and sequencing of
The Renovation of the E-Wing in
renovations occurring within an
Building 10 represents a conversion
occupied hospital facility. Specialty
of 16 floors comprised of former
requirements include: a new animal
patient care, laboratory areas, and
cagewash facility; ISO 7 and ISO 8
support space spread over 16 floors.
cell therapy cGMP suite; CO2 farm
The new spaces will include: clinical
with central distribution; localized
program area, cGMP production
LN2 dewar room for supplying -80
facilities, research laboratory, lab
and control rate freezers; Irradiation
support, teaching facili-ties, office
suite; and a whole blood collection,
space, and building support space
research aphaeresis, and blood
for approximately 800 personnel
donor clinic.
Northwestern University Simpson Querrey Institute Chicago, Illinois Client: Northwestern University ― Size: 41,000 square feet
The Northwestern Simpson Querrey Bioengineering project is a component of the Louis A. Simpson and Kimberly K. Querrey Biomedical Research Center. Embedded in the 600,000 square foot project, the project co-locates four significant groups: The Simpson Querrey Institute for Bionanotechnology, McCormick School of Engineering, Center for Bio-Integrated Electronics and Center for Synthetic Biology. In addition, Perkins and Will is
The fit-out also features a new clean room facility that will allow Northwestern University to produce novel clinical therapies and medical devices for the first time. The 1,300 square foot facility will provide IS0 7 and ISO 8 clean room capacity for the synthesis of novel synthetic peptides and creation of innovative medical devices.
providing programming and design
This is a highly efficient clean room
services for customized research
facility that takes advantage of
spaces, including a GMP Suite,
its collaborative adjacency with
Maker’s Lab and Imaging.
the research laboratories and support spaces to provide a new capability to the Northwestern medical community.
University of Virginia Pinn Hall cGMP Laboratory Charlottesville, Virginia Client: University of Virginia ― Size: 10,500 square feet , 6,250 square feet of clean room manufacturing space
Perkins and Will was solicited to
devoted to creating therapies for a
serve as the architect for the Pinn
variety of human diseases. A new
Hall renovation to develop a cGMP
human diagnostic laboratory for
laboratory for medical therapy
flow cytometry will be created to
and translational research. The
facilitate the construction of the
project is to design and construct a
new lab. The centerpiece of the
10,000 sq ft facility that can support
facility is a multi-purpose, multi-
the clean room manufacturing
product clean room FDA-regulated
of human tissues for clinical
production facility focusing on
transplantation and immune-
transplantation therapies and
based oncology treatments. The
the creation of novel immune-
new facility will replace a smaller
based therapies for blood-based
an existing smaller facility and
circulating cancers. Laboratories will
greatly expand the capacity to
be constructed to comply with ISO
perform world class research in
6, 7, and 8 clean room regulations.
transplantation medicine, oncology,
A clinical cytotherapy laboratory
and immunotherapies.
with future clean room capabilities
Nestled within Pinn Hall, this new facility will form a hub of scientific research and development
for the provision of the cell based therapies is included in the project.
Keralink Lab and Office Fit-Out Waltham, Massachusetts Client: Keralink ― Size: 6,548 square feet
KeraLink International is a non-profit dedicated to reversing corneal blindness through transplantation. This 10,000 square foot facility in Waltham, MA is built around a 500-square foot ISO 6 cleanroom for processing tissue donated for transplant. Adjacent to the cleanroom, 1,500 square feet of glass-walled clean laboratory houses specimen preparation processes. The perimeter of the building is occupied by support labs, quarantine and staging facilities, and open offices. The project is designed to maximize transparency between the laboratory work space and the office and support areas, and to include visual connection from the most isolated clean space through all surrounding areas and to the landscape outside.
Allergan, Inc. Bioscience Laboratory Irvine Irvine, California Client: Allergan, Inc. ― Size: 27,500 square feet: 20% Office & Amenity / 80% Manufacturing
Bioscience Laboratory Irvine is a stand-alone biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility for a licensed, parenteral drug. The two-story building has 27,500 sf of occupied area for stand-alone operations. The manufacturing suite is designed to cGMP compliance and is located on the second floor, with interstitial space and roof equipment area above. The program for BLI includes a bioreactor suite, purification suite, dedicated sterilization and gowning areas designed for cGMP environmental classification and BSL-3 containment. Support areas include QA/ QC laboratories, materials management, secured file storage, validated utilities generation and waste neutralization. The project included site master plan revisions and upgrades to the central utilities systems. BLI was delivered on a multiple package, fast-track method to accelerate the construction completion date.
Just Biotherapeutics Office, Laboratory, & Manufacturing Facility Renovation Seattle, Washington Client: Just Biotherapeutics ― Size: 140,000 square feet: 25% Office & Amenity /15% Lab / 60% of Clean Room Manufacturing and Project Access Space
Perkins and Will was re-engaged to design their commercial monocloanal antibody production facility. Working with a high-bay core/shell under construction, we developed a process architecture strategy to extend the successes of the new headquarters to this cGMP facility. Melding attractive and open office/amenity spaces with open laboratories, GMP support spaces, and a large GMP manufacturing ballroom, we have designed a space which is attractive to employees and compliant with commercial drug manufacturing requirements. Utilizing prefabricated clean room ‘pods’. the manufacturing space is efficient to manage and operate, and highly flexible for defined and future process operations.
Private Biotech Company New Headquarters Boston, Massachusetts Client: Confidential ― Size: 250,000 square feet: 45% Office & Amenity / 50% Lab / 5% Vivaria
The creation of a new institute
to interview and collaborate with
for regenerative medicine is an
scientists, translating processes
ambitious and daunting task –
and ideas into optional layouts,
especially when it grows from
and designing spaces particular
40 to 250 people within two
enough to meet specialized needs
years. The demands of culture
while at the same time flexible
and workplace in the scientific
enough to accommodate inevitable
community are as critical as the
changes over time.
technical demands associated with new laboratory technologies and cGMP manufacturing. These critical components must work together to achieve sound management, attract and retain top talent, and accelerate speed to market for important therapies.
Additionally, the Perkins and Will team includes its in-house Senior Lab Strategist, a former Senior Vice President of Operations in the pharmaceutical business who has himself built facilities for approval by the FDA. This command of the regulatory and operational issues
Integration of programming,
has saved time and contributed to a
planning and design with a single
well-considered program of spaces.
experienced in-house team, able
Confidential Client US Manufacturing Facility Central New Jersey Client: Confidential ― Size: 30,000 square feet: 40% Office & Amenity / 10% Lab / 50% Mfg & Clean Rooms
This confidential client is expanding
towards duplicating this plan at
its workforce capabilities to the US
future locations. The facility must
from the EU. The client has an office
exceed FDA regulations and provide
presence in the northeast and is
a workplace that is attractive to
adding a manufacturing capability
employees and motivational to their
to their US assets. Although first and
work. The facility is also flexible in
foremost a manufacturing facility for
terms of future products and assay
individualized patient therapy, it will
technology to support their pipeline.
become the US center for Quality
The work zone is open plan with
operations for the US market. The
much attention to collaboration
facility is functional but inviting
spaces, meeting rooms, and privacy
to their new staff. The facility also
zones. The connections between
takes advantage of their suburban
desk, collaboration, and work
location with access to public
zones is a prime feature of the
transportation and recreational
floorplan encouraging efficient
opportunities immediately adjacent
communications and productivity
for their usage.
for the scientific staff. Every
The Company’s focus was to increase manufacturing capacity and capabilities with an eye
space is maximized for efficiency, functionality and productivity of this active manufacturing facility.
Confidential Client UK Manufacturing Facility North London, England Client: Confidential ― Size: 125,000 square feet: 30% Office & Amenity / 60% of Clean Room Manufacturing
This confidential client is anticipating the commercial manufacture of its products in the EU and US. The client is manufacturing product for clinical trials via a CMO and is looking to transition to a purpose-built manufacturing facility for its state-of-the-art genetic cell therapy. Looking at proposed technologies and projected capacities, we looked to create a space that could manufacture multiple products and adjust to market demands as product launches come online. The company was looking to create a highly functional space that would be attractive for employees to commute to on a daily basis. With an established research base in the London area, this facility is expected to enhance the desirability of joining this company while manufacturing a high-quality life saving line of products. Given the very high cost of London real estate, they selected a high bay industrial park for their location. Utilizing the existing core and shell, we took their early facility concepts and refined them to fit as a ‘building within a building’. The new space would be US, EU, and worldwide compliant utilizing 3 levels that will be created.
The space is highly functional and created zones of product separation to ensure product integrity and patient safety. Logistics was located to a second smaller facility on campus, so great attention was payed to personnel and materials flows to support the design. The facility design included elasticity in numbers and types of products that could be produced, and in in the broad range of markets that needed to be served. The facility could serve as a regional or world wide supply hub for this company for the life cycle of this manufacturing facility.
National Institutes of Health NCI TIL Modular cGMP Laboratory Bethseda, Maryland Client: National Institutes of Health ― Size: 13,250 square feet
Perkins and Will was selected to design a modular facility for the manufacture of a novel therapeutic approach being developed by the National Cancer Institute. The NIH had pre-determined that a modular facility could be built faster and cheaper than a traditional facility for the size and scale of this project. Working with a prefabricating vendor, we designed a facility that would accommodate their modules and complement their approach. The pairing of the prefabricated modules within our building brought all of the elements of this GMP facility together in a very efficient manner.
The key drivers of this project were creating efficiencies in construction time and to create a versatile GMP facility for the manufacture of surgically obtained TIL cells. The facility is purpose built for their process and can provide individualized products for their clinical research. Having the core shell designed in parallel with the prefabricated modules allowed for an efficient facility design process that was well coordinated for the required engineering support. The prefabricated modules were then constructed in parallel with the core shell and moved into place at the appropriate moment in the construction process creating an efficient parallel construction program. The net result is the creation of a GMP facility that meets the programmatic needs of the clinical researchers in a reduced time frame thus getting these life saving therapies to patients more efficiently.
Genzyme, A Sanofi Company cGMP Global Operations Center Northborough, Massachusetts Client: Genzyme ― Size: 250,000 square feet
This LEED CI-Gold cGMP facility is a sophisticated multi-channel operations center supporting basic distribution functions as well as seemingly unaffiliated departments, including Clinical Pharmacy Research Services (CPRS), the company’s drug trial division. This significant shift in scope came about as a result of a partnership between the architect and the client’s project management team, using Perkins and Will’s advanced programming process. Although Genzyme secured the existing Northborough warehouse and developed a program prior to contracting with the firm, the design team took nothing for granted, instead conducting a value stream analysis to capture information about departmental processes, complex chain of custody, and supply chain relationships and synthesized these into a design that collocates nine departments to achieve operational efficiencies.
Boston Heart Diagnostics Headquarters Framingham, Massachusetts Client: Boston Heart Diagnostics ― Size: 30,000 square feet
Boston Heart Diagnostics provides personalized diagnostic solutions to prevent heart disease. The company’s success resulted in significant growth, and necessitated a move to a larger space that would support its research and production efforts. Perkins and Will worked closely with Boston Heart Diagnostics to discover a more efficient workflow within and between the different departments, and then translated that understanding into an open and flexible layout. The new design allows for more efficient sample transport through strategically planned adjacencies. Overhead chilled RODI feeds save square footage and energy by eliminating the need for additional refrigerators. Collaborative workspaces are included in the office area, along with an open kitchen area to promote interactions between scientists. The use of glass and low partitions allows light to penetrate deep into the space, creating a bright, welcoming environment designed to inspire and promote innovation.
Section 03. Master Plans and Strategic Plans
Respecting the past, shaping the future.
Designing places, reflecting values
We reenergize communities by crafting engaging spaces, dynamic neighborhoods, and innovative infrastructure. We draw upon place, history, and experience to bring a new vision for positive change, and a concrete plan for how to achieve it. We understand the tapestry of an urban district. Interweaving new open spaces and transit corridors unleash a city’s potential to spark the exchange of ideas and business, and to grow. Urban districts exist at the intersection of many different interests, and so our engagement with public/private partnerships looks ahead to create long-term solutions for development and regeneration.
The Packing District Orlando, Florida Client: Dr. Phillips Foundation Size: 202 acres (82 hectares) Completion Date: Ongoing
― WHAT IT IS
A comprehensive branded master plan that tells the dynamic story of a neighborhood’s past, present, and future.
The Packing District
Plan Explorations Alternative 1
Focus on History Celebrating the site’s rich history allows stories, both new and old, to emerge from the historic industrial buildings. The result is a hyper-local plan that uses a community’s past to help shape their future. To weave a rich narrative of the Dr. Phillip’s history and heritage into the design, the team undertook a process of discovery and learning, with dialogue around vision, storytelling and research.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
The Dr. Phillips Foundation’s mission, informed by his family’s vision, drove every design decision.
Alternative 2
Alternative 3
Create a Campus
Blur the Lines
Building on the identity of the College Park
Blurring the lines between indoors and out,
neighborhood within the plan, we centered
large open spaces invite daylight and create
the campus on a large public park, offering
dynamic views and experiences.
green space connections between buildings for students and faculty.
Turner Field Stadium Neighborhoods Livable Centers Initiative Plan Atlanta, Georgia Client: City Of Atlanta & Invest Atlanta Size: 1,340 acres (542 hectares) Completion Date: 2016
― WHAT IT IS
A comprehensive community planning and engagement initiative around the former Braves stadium, encompassing several of the city’s historic neighborhoods.
The plan is at the intersection of some of Atlanta’s most ambitious programs, in an area that includes the 1996 Centennial Olympic Stadium (now home to the Braves) and several historic neighborhoods negatively impacted by urban renewal projects.
The final design offered three different plans. Each respected the site’s DNA as well as the respective goals of the community, the developer, and city businesses.
Turner Field LCI
The client and community vision, the market, and an understanding of the site came together to form planning principles that guided priorities.
Turner Field LCI
To harness the power of the community around the vision, our planning team created an innovative public engagement exercise, Activity Visioning, designed to allow the team to understand the level of development desired while continuously informing the community of all the possible services and amenities.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Expansive public green spaces connect a variety of residences, from single family homes to high-rise apartments, creating a diverse neighborhood culture centered on well-being.
With information gathered from Activity Visioning, we also created Activity Score, an algorithm that synthesizes population and density data to create a single score. This informed our team’s people-centered decisions on public transit nodes, building height and park placement, among others.
Scranton Peninsula Master Plan Cleveland, Ohio Client: Project Thunderbird (a developer consortium) Size: 25 acres (10 hectares) Completion Date: 2017
― WHAT IT IS
A 100-year vision for a former industrial site on the Cuyahoga River.
→ The plan creates a dense pedestrian-oriented neighborhood with expansive views of the river on three sides, creating a unique waterfront experience.
↓ Today, the Peninsula is surrounded by vibrancy.
Scranton Penninsula Master Plan
← The site today offers sweeping views of the city, architecture that broadcasts the site’s industrial past, as well as intimate enclosures where nature has begun to reclaim.
↑ The plan extends the waterfront experience deep into the Peninsula through a series of “slipway” pedestrian paths and linear gardens.
Scranton Penninsula Master Plan
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Not only are the views naturally spectacular, but they are designed to orient visitors to the downtown Cleveland skyline.
A continuous public waterfront will culminate in a world-class park on the southern edge that will connect more neighborhoods to the expanding riverfront park system.
3005 Democracy Way (Mission Point) Santa Clara, California Client: Genzon Investment Group / Kylli, Inc. Size: 48 acres (19 hectares) Completion Date: 2019
― WHAT IT IS
A mixed-use urban neighborhood that blends the convenience of urban living with greenspace and nature.
New open spaces, including recreation fields, gardens and plazas support community gatherings, regional connectivity and environmental stewardship, and a healthy lifestyle for all.
3005 Democracy Way (Mission Point)
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
The plan envisions a community rising from a balanced and diverse mix of neighbors and businesses.
Platinum Corridor Urban Design Study Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Client: University Place Associates Completion Date: 2018
― WHAT IT IS
A highly sustainable, inclusive urban community— and a model for developing collaborative entrepreneurship.
← Major new gathering spaces at each end of the corridor join enhanced pedestrian edges along every street. Our design seamlessly integrates branding so visitors and entrepreneurs can find their way around the district.
Platinum Commons
→ Gateway Green
A robust public realm anchors the new development along the corridor.
Platinum Corridor
The Platinum Corridor engages with the surrounding residential communities and the vibrant university and healthcare campus neighbors.
The District is guided by six key principles: •
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Express the Platinum Corridor identity as the new center for sustainability, community, and innovation in West Philadelphia. Honor the history and culture of the community. Create jobs and economic opportunity for the West Philadelphia community. Establish a model of sustainable design and resilience. Curate a legible identity for the corridor. Create a cohesive design language for architecture and the public realm.
Power District Redevelopment Plan Gainesville, Florida Client: Gainesville Community Redevelopment Agency Size: 17.7 acres (7.2 hectares) Completion Date: 2013
― WHAT IT IS
A vision for repurposing a former powerplant district, creating a new Gainesville destination.
← Both repurposed old buildings and new buildings flow around plazas and a well-loved community garden.
→ The Plan aims to achieve greater density and vitality while preserving the distinct industrial character of the area
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7. Plaza
4. Plaza and Public Parking
8. McRorie Community Garden
9. Sweetwater Branch Creek (Opened to Daylight) 10. Overflow Parking
Power District Redevelopment Plan
By re-imagining existing models that often isolated urban communities through walls and borders, our new development breaks down walls, allowing for free movement of people and ideas.
1. Break the single structure
2. Take each segment and make
into small segments that can
smaller buildings on their own
be owned and developed by
development plots.
different people.
3. Reorganize the buildings into a dense urban fabric.
4. Establish a series of micro-blocks laced with public streets and circulation paths.
Buildings: Density Done Differently BUILDING
CENTRALIZED PARKING BUILDINGS
DE-CENTRALIZED PARKING
Public Space: A Community Destination
Users and Owners: Mixed Use, Mixed User
Phasing: Incremental Implementation Standard Approach:
Micro-Block Approach:
Max Potential Phasing: 1
Max Potential Phasing: 4+
# of Building Types: 1
# of Building Types: 8+
Section 04. Developing Data Driven Solutions
A Data Driven Approach The workplace is more than a place of work; it is a space providing physical and emotional well-being, environmental sustainability and a place of interaction and innovation. BENCHMARKS
Our workplace strategy process is based on understanding how an organisation currently works and aspires to work in the future. We believe that designing something as important as your future workplace should
VISION SESSION
ON-SITE OBSERVATIONS
be supported by a robust process. Each organisation is
Data Driven Design
unique, and through data we can understand you work now and how your patterns compare to industry norms. We believe in making decisions for the future based on a firm understanding on the current state.
FOCUS GROUPS
Data performs multiple roles. On the one hand, it serves to benchmark what currently exists, which allows you
ACTIVITY SENSOR TRACKING
to better understand the impact that any decision you make will have on your business. Once this benchmark is established data then assists in logical future decision making and strategy development. We have a number of tools which we use for data
SPACE UTILIZATION STUDY WORKFLOW ANALYSIS
collection to ensure that information gathered is robust, manageable and reliable. These tools and activities, as part of our typical methodology, are outlined in the following pages. The activities can be selected as appropriate for the project and desired outcome.
LEADERSHIP INTERVIEWS
LEESMAN SURVEY
FUNCTIONAL INTERVIEWS
The Process Indicative Timeline
BENCHMARKS VISION SESSION
ON-SITE OBSERVATIONS
Goal Setting & Vision
Data Driven Design
FOCUS GROUPS
LEADERSHIP INTERVIEWS
Recommendation Workplace & Design Strategies
ACTIVITY SENSOR TRACKING SPACE UTILIZATION STUDY
Refinement WORKFLOW ANALYSIS LEESMAN SURVEY
PHASE 1: MOBILIZATION 2 WEEKS * Varies dependent on activities and scheduling
FUNCTIONAL INTERVIEWS
PHASE 2: DATA COLLECTION 3 WEEKS*
PHASE 3: ANALYSIS & ASSESSMENT 2-4 WEEKS
PHASE 4: DOCUMENTATION 2-4 WEEKS
A Data Driven Approach to Workplace Strategy and Design
Data Collection
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of flexible working practices will be the norm?
Our data collection tools aim to capture both quantitative and qualitative information in order
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What are the challenges to adopting these new working practices? How could we over come these?
to provide the most robust evidence for our design solutions.
How will your teams work in the future? What kinds
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How can the workplace contribute to a diverse and inclusive culture?
Workshops Visioning Workshop Run with key business stakeholders, this step is fundamental in defining a collective vision for the
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How would you bring employees closer to the business purpose?
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How would you define success of the real estate project?
project. Topics will be discussed to invite discussion and provide an output which will continually be referred to throughout all milestones to ensure the strategy is in line with the vision. These sessions are also an opportunity to educate the audience on what is happening in the world of work and to pose alternative futures. Questions posed in these sessions vary depending on the desired outcome. Typical questions may include: •
What do we want employees to come to the workspace for?
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What is keeping us from achieving this outcome? example workshop
A Data Driven Approach to Workplace Strategy and Design
Staff Workshops We believe in the importance of co-design and bringing staff on the design journey. One of the ways to do this can be by engaging staff in design or strategy focused workshops.
BUSINESS ENGAGEMENT / Workspace - Appetite for Activity Based Working Looking at both the partner and staff findings superimposed, findings align for all business units with a degree of variance, with the exception of Audit, where there appeared to be a contradiction between partners & staff views, whereby staff expressed a higher appetite than partners to try ABW.
PARTNERS & STAFF COMBINED
Through the careful curation of questions these sessions can be a useful tool in validating the leadership vision,
HIGH DESIRE
understanding the employee perspective and identifying areas where change management may be required to
Consulting and Deal Advisory show the strongest appetite for ABW.
bring employees on the journey to the future state. The image to the right illustrates an example whereby Partner and Staff workshops were carried out in separate sessions, covering the same exercises, to understand the appetite for moving to an Activity Based Work model
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making decisions for the future, the voice of your future leaders can be insightful.
appetite for ABW. LOW DESIRE
Tax shows the lowest appetite for ABW with a few exceptions (all Partners) expressing high desire to change the current ways of working.
Business Support shows interest in ABW but express restricted ability to work in a more
mobile way.
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A Data Driven Approach to Workplace Strategy and Design
Interviews
the day to day workings.
Staff Interviews
Leadership Interviews
Interview questions can be issued in advance to ensure a
Interviews carried out with a cross section of staff give
These interviews are an opportunity to gain insight into
productive session.
an insight into how different aspects of the workplace
the appetite for new ways of working and understand
Blocking & Stacking
The interviews can inform departmental profiles,
Drivers & Approach
the business. Questions may focus on how well they are
challenges and opportunities that may be present for the business. These conversations set the direction for any future engagement with the business. They are also an opportunity to understand how collective future thinking
are experienced across varying levels and roles within
outlining the current and desired future state and any
supported in collaborative and focuswas tasks, meeting Developing on the key principle of taking into account desired business adjacencies, business interview output considered specialist requirements. when developing the options for the blocking and stacking of Fabryczna buildings and B3. Business engagement data revealed culture and B2 perceived availability of space to carry out that employees saw no critical adjacencies required between departments. A key desire that was stated throughout business business activities, through to how well the workplace interviews included removing barriers and minimising sub-divisions within departments.
supports wellbeing and culture.
Business Interview Departmental Adjacencies.
is amongst leadership.
Personal & Corporate Banking
Corporate Center
The interviews are semi structured, where we ask a series of pre-set questions but may ask further questions to
COO AREA
clarify or further explore themes and ideas.
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GCS
Comms & Branding
HR
Group Technology
Departmental Head Interviews These interviews are where we learn more about the makes them unique. We explore each departments
requirements. To gather a clear picture we recommend that the
Asset Management
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vision for the future in terms of working practices, head
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different business units, how they function, and what
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SPACE UTILISATION STUDY / Room Booking Analysis: Stokes Place (Client Suite Only)
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developing a work setting menu that can be tailored to support the business.
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data, and together will provide the building blocks for
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within offices (58.1%). More than half of the workstations (57%) are classified as highlyLegend utilised (71-99%).
ad-hoc meetings.
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place across the workplace.
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how much time is spent in individual and group areas,
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Q. Thinking about the work that you do, which of the following activities are important and how well are they supported?
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This Lmi rating enables you to understand how your Physical Features
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Staff Perception Surveys AT HOME Survey As we know, we are working through unprecedented times, with our workforces adapting to a rapid change to working from home. In order to make informed decisions around future office transition strategies, it is critical to understand how this has affected your employees effectiveness and wellbeing, mindsets and work patterns. In response to this, Perkins and Will have developed the ‘AT HOME Survey’, an evidence-based approach to understand the impact of working from home (WFH) during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Questions focus on three modules, before working from home, to understand the previous state; Since working from home, to understand task effectiveness whilst working from home during COVID-19, and Transitioning to the Office, to identify the key factors that will draw employees back to the office. These survey findings are being used by organistations to understand current task and role effectiveness working from home, to inform decisions on their ability to adopt more flexible working practices in the future, and to debate what the role of their future office. Are desks to be replaced by places to gather and meet?
example AT HOME survey output
Section 05. Workplace Strategy
Clockwise from Top Left: Newell Brands Design Center, Confidential Client, Atlasstian
Aligning people, process, and place.
→ CBRE
← Be The Match
Clockwise from Top Left: Dropbox, Vistria, Nixon Peabody, Nike
Clockwise from Top Left: Indeed, Madison Marquette, Fitbit
We challenge We question The one thing we have learned from the last few months is that the future is uncertain. Traditional planning scenarios are being rethought and disruptive influences arise seemingly out of nowhere. Our strategy team delivers solutions as innovative as our clients, solutions that support long-term, resilient and sustainable change. We are process thinkers; we take on each new assignment with deep experience but with a complete open mind. We challenge, we question, we postulate, we contextualize, we push you to take risks in your thinking. Our job as an architect, designer and strategist is to make sure your plan is bespoke to your organization. Design thinking, human-centered design methodologies and data analytics are at the core of our P+S process. Through an iterative and integrated participatory approach we constantly refine the realities and nuances of your organization today and
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listening closely
convergence
Successful projects begin and end with deep client engagement – strategy guides and design inspires, but the engagement of the clients’ team and end-users throughout the process are a crucial factor
We believe in true convergence and a systems design approach. Brand, culture, inspiration, technology, motivation are all
innovation
caring
Innovation means asking ‘why not’ with everything we do – we invests in our own staff with an annual Innovation Incubator program that rewards staff for inventing ideas, processes and products that benefit
We are compassionate, supportive, and emphasize the well-being of all users. Our strategies emphasize health, wellness and mindfulness as central to our client’s
driving change dynamic processes Strategy and design are interwoven, not discrete processes. Our team is made up of architects, strategists and designers. We believe in synergy, and our focus is rooted in making a difference for our clients
To drive change you need an approach that knows when to punch the accelerator as well as coax the brakes. Our process and design communication strategies provide an implementable plan that consistently adapts to the dynamics
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You are ready to start planning:
You are thinking about the future:
Our team of professionals will
The most critical phase of a new project, and it is where our team can add the greatest value. We can help with:
Plan
• Help identify the multiple drivers impacting your real estate and space design (e.g. technology, behavior, logistics, operations)?
• Facilitating a visioning session with your leadership
• Provide in-depth analysis on dense data
• Educate on best practices and benchmarking of your peer organizations •
• Bring tools that support multiple scenario analyses
Help to sort out numerous issues to help you extract the signals from the noise
• Distill information for top-level decision making
• Help understand your target user, their motivations and the experiences they require.
Project Life-Cycle
• Outline a roadmap for implementation of your decisions
• Assist in the development of a planning
You want to drive change & measure success: • Evaluates the successes and concerns of the space design, providing real time information to you to consider in future planning • Advises on trends, emerging technologies, and disruptive events that will
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• Our team remains through the design process to serve as the client voice on the design team. • Our team will extracts innovative concepts into an ‘idea bank’ that you can use on future projects • We also help you communicate the design intent with the end-user to help
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A comprehensive and integrated planning approach to explore, classify, and prioritize your program needs and your overall design outcomes.
Listen
Explore/Explode
Re-imagine/Connect
Recommend
Identify the client’s vision & establish clear goals and success metrics
Find the essential components and determine priorities
Visualize options that satisfy priorities and goals
Provide a clear roadmap for the next steps of the design process
• Ask many questions • Conduct visioning sessions • Comprehensive understanding of the organization, business objectives, strategic vision, culture and operational structure • Craft a shared point of view and common understanding of priorities
• Data collection: quantitative and qualitative • Approach customized to each client (e.g.: persona building, surveys, photo journalism and other humancentric methodologies) • Data analytics: Identify patterns and key insights
• Connect the dots and layer data • Represent findings (dashboards, scenario planning, user journeys) • Data visualization adapted to clients needs and priorities.
• Recommendations that match the optimal strategy and preferred degree of flexibility. • Graphic materials and tools to support the client through the design process. • Work closely with designers to translate recommendations into physical design solutions. • Recommendation can come in the form of space programs, concept plans, videos, stack diagrams, communication strategies, amongst many. 195
Our process is scalable, moving from the macro community/real estate portfolio, to the specific building project and further to the strategy of the micro-level place of work. Portfolio Strategy
Building Strategy
Place Strategy
We evaluate entire portfolios for clients at a macro level to understand:
Our strategists support the building planning process by addressing such questions as:
• Should we decentralize our facilities to align our facilities with our client base?
•
With a human experience focus, our strategy team provides a range of services at the place of work level including:
• Does our single consolidated facility represent a security risk? • Conversely, what cost and operational efficiencies may be realized by consolidating our facilities? • How does your overall facility deployment support or detract from your business goals?
•
How dynamic is the organization and how much flexibility should be invested in the design to accommodate future change? How do you optimize the configuration of the building to balance efficiency with inspiring design?
• How should infrastructure be developed to grow and change with the future tenants of the building?
• Updated standards and guidelines •
Integrated workplace strategy that blends centralized work settings as well as remote working programs
•
Plans to incorporate sensor technology to understand use of space
• Change management advisory and program development
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Case Study 1: Portfolio & Place Strategy
Location: Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey Completion Date: 2018 Size: 31,000 m2
The Challenge Long range real estate portfolio analysis and recommendations to link business goals with facility demands and design of a transformational user experience.
The goal of the global consumer products company Unilever was to transform their 1960s campus in Englewood Cliffs, NJ to a workplace that connected their staff closer to their brands, their colleagues, and their clients. This
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Case Study 1: Portfolio & Place Strategy
Location: Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey Completion Date: 2018 Size: 31,000 m2
P&S Involvement The Planning & Strategy team worked together with Unilever to creatively reposition the corporate campus by consolidating the buildings into a highly flexible, collaborative environment. The strategy which included cost, logistics and programmatic analysis explored different ways in which to connect a series of individual pavilions with a continuous aesthetic and branding
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Case Study 1: Portfolio & Place Strategy
Location: Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey Completion Date: 2018 Size: 31,000 m2
Sustainability & technology strategy Integrated smart technologies record energy data and automate energy use, enabling the building to learn from employee behaviors and remember their preferences. Rooms, even entire floors, can turn themselves off during periods of infrequent use, and Unilever staff can customize their personal lighting and audiovisual systems with custom apps
Experience Strategy Employees that work across Unilever’s brand verticals from brands as diverse as Lipton Tea, Q-Tips, Ben & Jerry’s, and Vaseline now share common space, interact, and collaborate with one another. This was facilitated by our workplace planners and strategists and is the first time in Unilever’s history to consolidate these teams for the purpose of collaboration and innovation. By enclosing the outdoor courtyard that had originally separated the five buildings across the campus, our design team created a vast atrium-like space in which Unilever employees can meet, work, dine, play, or simply unwind – all while being immersed in the brands and stories of the organization they represent. 199
Case Study 2: Portfolio Strategy
United Nations, New York. Location: New York, NY Completion Date: 2015 Size: 300,000 m2
The Challenge Long term occupancy analysis of fixed portfolio assets that results in a phased renovation plan for all occupied facilities and an interactive database that the client can incorporate into their ongoing planning process.
In the late 1990s, the United Nations developed a master plan for its iconic New York City complex that outlined a series of infrastructure upgrades, including structural, mechanical, electrical, and technology for the entire site. As an integral part of the implementation of this master plan, Perkins+Will has worked closely with the United Nations Capital Master Plan Unit and its consultants to develop a comprehensive functional program for the site. Our relationship with the UN has broadened to provide a continuity of services that includes Swing Space Planning, Infrastructure Planning & Quality Control, Transition Planning, Move Facilitation services, and full Interior Design,
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Case Study 2: Portfolio Strategy
United Nations, New York Location: New York, NY Completion Date: 2015 Size: 300,000 m2
P&S Involvement The Planning & Strategies team developed a structured approach to gather the programmatic needs of over 80 distinct user groups that occupy spaces within the 3.5 millionsquare-foot United Nations New York area portfolio. This process yielded valuable insight into the daily operations of the various groups and provided a clear cross-reference and balance between the needs of a group and the overall demand for the renovation. The approach also provided an auditable information trail, an important contribution to planning when a project extends across many years. We continue to work closely with the United Nations Capital Master Plan to develop targeted communications that help facilitate the transformation of an organization that has not seen a major renovation in most of its 59-year history. Clear, consistent, communication and a structured relocation process is critical to managing the expectations of a diverse client base and to enable the United Nations to continue its mission during
Services Provided: • User interviews, surveys and mapping • Data analytics - scenario planning • Swing space planning
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Case Study 3: Campus & Place Strategy
Confidential Global Consumer Products Company Location: White Plains, NY Completion Date: Target 2021 Size: 300,000 m2
The Challenge Long term visioning for campus. Occupancy analysis with scenario planning that explores costs, schedule, adjacencies, long term flexibility and user experience.
The client was looking for a real estate strategy that would allow them to increase the capacity of their global headquarters up to 2600 approximate employees - an increase of almost 40% of their current population. With a strong focus on employee experience, the strategy challenge was to design a holistic plan that incorporated technology, hospitality, new ways of working, strategic design
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Case Study 3: Campus & Place Strategy
Confidential Global Consumer Products Company Location: White Plains, NY Completion Date: Target 2021 Size: 300,000 m2
P&S Involvement Meet Jay, Em and Bea
The strategy developed covers multiple fronts:
These three PepsiCo associates have very different ways of working. The following pages will walk you through ways you could experience the space on a typical day.
Jay
The Meeting Maven Spends most of the day at meetings — some are planned, some spontaneous.
Interactive Agile Sharing Ratios Dashboard Em
The Desk Dweller Likes to have autonomy and keep personal belongings close. Bea
The Multi-Tasker Loves to move freely throughout the space; changes scenarios to feel inspired and creative.
1. A workplace study to identify design opportunities for densification, refinement of open/closed collaboration ratios, and ultimately an unassigned seating model. 2. A build-in-place strategy that allows the campus to remain in full operation while the renovation takes place. The P+S team developed an interactive model that allowed decision makers and the construction team to identify the impacts (shared ratios, number of people moving) for each phase of the construction. 3. A change management and design communication plan to help staff navigate the change. Graphics and key messaging were crafted by the P+S team. 4. A hospitality journey map that explores a new way of
Services Provided: Discover what your day-to-day could look like! Watch this short video
Phased in place strategy - interactive dashboard
Design Communication & Change Management Strategy & Implementation
• User interviews, surveys and mapping • Data analytics - scenario planning • Swing space planning • Strategic communications
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Case Study 4: Building Strategy
Columbia Properties Trust - Covid 19 Response Location: New York Completion Date: 2020 Size: 16,000 m2
The Challenge Building Strategy to address the question of ‘how must my business practices evolve, in order to successfully operate in a post-pandemic world?’.
Columbia Properties Trust was looking for recommendations to modify their half-completed building to accommodate new priorities that tenants will look for in a postCOVID-19 occupancy. At an unprecedented time filled with questions and unknowns, the client was looking to think strategically and
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Case Study 4: Building Strategy
Columbia Properties Trust - Covid 19 Response Location: New York Completion Date: 2020 Size: 16,000 m2
TOUCH-FREE DESIGN
MAYBE, CONSIDER THIS IDEA
CONSIDER SLIDING DOORS REVOLVING DOOR ALREADY PURCHASED
Automatic Doors
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VISITOR EXPERIENCE
NO , HOLD FOR NOW CAN BE ADDED LATER
THERMAL SCANNING & SENSORS
ARCHITECTURAL
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The sliding door will have to be sized to cover the egress needs of the swing doors that is removing.
5' - 2"
5' - 9"
5' - 5 1/2"
EQ
ADA
3' - 2"
ICM
CR
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ADA
2' - 7"
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ADA
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WORK POINT
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EQ
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WORK POINT
10' - 0 1/2"
LOBBY
6' - 8"
Walk off mat size can be reduced
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5' - 5"
ADA
0' - 6"
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Overhead vs. Horizontal
Wired vs. Wireless
People counting through sensors logging traffic at all main building access points
Thermal Scanning at Building Access Points
EXTERIOR WALL/STRUCTURAL
13' - 11" 8' - 6"
This size of this door forces the elimination of the two side door entries
View from Broadway
The design of the structural glass wall will have to be modified from what is currently included in the contract documents and shop drawings. Some Structural input will be needed to confirm the vestibule substructure
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The minimum sliding door size is 10’-0” wide. A vestibule will need to be provided. This will be larger than the revolver that it is replacing.
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SomeE MEP input will be needed to adjust the strategy in this area
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
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YES , EXPLORE THIS IDEA EFFORT ALREADY UNDERWAY
Destination Dispatch Elevator System
In addition to Destination Dispatch, implement touchless systems that allow vertical circulation through badge, Biometrics and/or QR Code scanning.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
First-Aid/Medical Room
NO , HOLD FOR NOW CAN BE ADDED LATER
First-Aid/Medical room located in the cellar, that could also be used as an ‘isolation room’. for consideration: Have a trained in-house Emergency Medical Technician
P&S Involvement
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TOUCH-FREE DESIGN
Proposed location: Cellar
App. 150 SF Rentable Retail space will be taken away for consideration:
Limit the number of people allowed in the elevator at one time
Destination Dispatch Elevators
The planning & strategies team put together a multi-disciplinary team of engineers, interior designers and technology experts to explore different aspects that could positively impact the tenants well-being. The analysis explored cost, easiness of implementation, and overall impact on the tenant experience.
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Streamlining operations and improving efficiencies. From laboratories to workplaces.
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