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Designing A Production Laboratory For Clinical Materials
September 11, 2009
•Feature Article: Designing A Production Laboratory For Clinical Materials
By Douglas Carter
Interdisciplinary collaboration is as critical to successful laboratory design as it is to biopharmaceutical development. The interdisciplinary design and engineering team for the new mission-critical headquarters and laboratory facility of Human Genome Sciences (HGS) in Rockville, MD, collaborated to overcome technical challenges associated with laboratory stacking, exhaust venting, and vibration control. The result of their efforts is a unique design solution combining architectural and site aesthetics with a state-of-the-art, flexible clinical-trials-materials production laboratory.
HGS is a midstage development biopharmaceutical company with a significant product pipeline derived from proprietary genomic technology. The company has completed the first phase of its campus master plan, which totals 837,800 ft2 of construction area and comprises a six-story administration building, two four-story laboratory and office buildings, and one parking garage for 900 cars. The master plan provides for expansion to 1,030,000 ft2 (FAR area, or floor–area ratio) on a 50-acre site. The architectural firm of Davis Carter Scott (McLean, VA) provided the master planning and architecture for this state-of-the-art project.
Reprinted with permission from BioProcess International 4(11):48-50 (December 2006)
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