Life Science
New Center for Biometric Analysis Tops Off
Bar Harbor, ME – PC Construction recently reached a major milestone on The Jackson Laboratory’s new Center for Biometric Analysis when the final piece of structural steel was signed by employees of the laboratory and members of the construction team before being bolted into place. The center, a 21,000sf facility, is a significant expansion of research capability for The […]
Tedor Pharma Announces Renovation of Manufacturing Facility
Managed by Shawmut Cumberland, RI – Tedor Pharma Inc., a Cumberland-based U.S. pharmaceutical product developer and manufacturer, is expanding and upgrading its large-scale manufacturing facility located at 400 Highland Corporate Drive. The multimillion dollar project is being managed by Shawmut Design and Construction. The expansion, which will add approximately 5,400sf to the existing 40,000sf facility, […]
ABI-LAB Holds Grand Opening
Natick, MA – Dr. Michael Kauffman,CEO of Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc., was joined by state officials recently at the grand opening of ABI-LAB, a state-of-the-art 10,000sf differentiated accelerator and bio-incubator in Natick. It provides affordable lab space to seven biotech companies and will be home to over 15 companies as Phase 2 of the building is […]
LEO Pharma Expands Presence in Boston
Boston – LEO Pharma, a global healthcare company dedicated to helping people achieve healthy skin, recently inaugurated the LEO Science & Tech Hub in Boston by Her Royal Highness, Crown Princess Mary of Denmark. The event brought together members of the Boston life sciences community to explore opportunities for partnership and innovation with LEO Pharma. […]
MLSC New Appointees to Board of Directors
Waltham, MA – The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) announced recently that Governor Charlie Baker has appointed Pam Randhawa, founder and CEO of Empiriko Corporation, and Gary Paul Kearney, M.D., past president of the medical staff, chief of urology, and vice chairman of the department of surgery at New England Baptist Hospital, to the MLSC […]
Caldwell & Walsh Support Research at BC
Chestnut Hill, MA – Caldwell & Walsh Building Construction recently renovated the Tafti Lab in Higgins Hall as well as the Zhang Lab in the Merkert Chemistry Center at Boston College The Tafti Physics Lab included wood chemical storage cabinets, thermo box ovens, and a new exhaust hood. In addition, hydrogen gas lines were reworked […]
Shawmut Unveils Updated Robotics Lab at Northeastern
Boston – Shawmut Design and Construction recently completed the conversion and renovation of an existing lab into the new robotics lab at Northeastern University. The facility, which officially opened in September, is located on the fourth floor of Northeastern’s Richards Hall at 330 Huntington Avenue in Boston. Working closely in tandem with architectural firm Linea 5, Shawmut renovated the just over 3,000sf space with brand new manufacturing and prototyping rooms. […]
UMass Amherst Launches Institute for Applied Life Sciences
Amherst, MA – The opening of the Institute for Applied Life Sciences (IALS) at UMass Amherst was celebrated recently by Massachusetts life science industry leaders and state and university officials during a day-long event, celebrating a $150 million investment to bring new discoveries in healthcare services and products to market. IALS is a life sciences […]
The Complex “Life” of a Life Science Building
by Robert Reihl and Nancy Greenwald It is said that a new life sciences facility’s design and construction “. . . gets more complicated as the building comes to life”! And, in a creative inversion of a New Testament passage that declares, “our body is a temple,” we can explore the complexities of the life within the life science […]
DPS & TRIA Selected to Design Moderna Therapeutics Facility
Framingham, MA – DPS and its US architectural partner TRIA has won a major contract to provide architectural, engineering and project management services for a new $110 million, 200,000-square foot GMP mRNA clinical manufacturing facility in Norwood, for biotechnology company, Moderna Therapeutics. DPS is providing full architectural and engineering design for the Norwood facility and also providing construction management oversight, commissioning, […]
