Corporate

Vantage Builders Completes Persimmon Tech. Project

Wakefield, MA – Vantage Builders, Inc. of Waltham  announced that it recently constructed a new cleanroom and office for Persimmon Technologies Corporation at 178 Albion Street in Wakefield.

Persimmon Technologies, a provider of robotics for the semiconductor, data storage, LED, OLED, solar, and flat panel display equipment markets, needed an additional cleanroom, as well as office space.

The project required particular experience and ingenuity on behalf of the general contracting firm because the location is on the ground level of a renovated mill building.  Part of the Harvard Mills complex, 178 Albion Street is a brick-and-beam office building that was originally constructed as a textile mill in the early 1900s. “We needed to contend with the ground floor setting of the original mill building, which added certain complications, such as connecting systems with the rooftop units,”  said Mike Thayer, senior project manager at Vantage.

The 10-week, $500,000 project yielded Persimmon a new, sizeable cleanroom and office space.  The cleanroom has a variety of new systems, including positive pressure HEPA filtration, new HVAC, and process piping for compressed air and nitrogen.  There is new electrostatic discharge controlling flooring, gasket ceiling systems, and specially designed wall treatments.  The office fit-out – including new ceiling, wall, and floor finishes – is seamlessly integrated with Persimmon’s existing space.

The architects on the project were Saccoccio Associates Architects and the engineers were A.D.A. Engineering, Inc.