Pilot Plant and Process Development Labs

To further their growth and success, Gilead built a Pilot Plant facility to facilitate rapid scale-up of new treatment initiatives and manufacturing processes.

This 35,000-sf renovation houses a GMP-compliant pilot-scale manufacturing plant, process development and analytical laboratories, lab support, conference rooms, and offices. A structurally-isolated steel platform supports rooftop equipment while increasing the seismic strength of the building. The B-occupancy building includes 3,500 sf of H-occupancy space for the pilot plant areas. These employ spill control and fire-water containment.

Project Information

Building Owner:

Gilead Sciences

Building Location:

Foster City, California UNITED STATES

Project Type:

Renovation

Principal Building Function:

Manufacturing

Project Delivery Method:

General Contractor

Project Timeline

Oct 2004	Completion
Last known status: Completed

Project Cost:

$25,200,000

Construction Cost:

$21,000,000

Cost Per Sq. Ft:

$600

About These Cost Figures

Building Information

Project Includes:

Manufacturing
Pharmacology
Pilot Plant
Warehouse

Total GSF:

35,000

Project Team

Architect

VDK Architects

Builder

Rudolph and Sletten Inc.

Consultant - Code

CR Code Resources

Engineer - MEP

Alfa Tech Consulting Engineers

Engineer - Structural

Paradigm Structural Engineers

Profile Created 01/05/2007

Last Updated 02/02/2007

About the Reported Cost Figures

The cost figures reported are supplied by the firms that submitted these projects for publication, which in most cases are the designers or builders. Whereas these sources are intimately familiar with their projects, they may not be fully aware of the owners' finally-realized and recorded costs. In some cases, costs are truly and completely accounted for, and in others they represent a near approximation of the final costs. Costs have not been adjusted for year of construction, nor has any attempt been made to make regional cost adjustments.

Further, costs are not comparable on any kind of detailed standard costing model. Hence, it is possible for the cost of one building to include a steam boiler, while the cost of a comparable building might not include the boiler, if steam is being supplied from an already existing campus grid. Or, in another case, a building might include excess boiler capacity to supply steam to another building. Some submittals include fees or unusual site improvements as part of the construction costs, which others do not.

Fig. 1

Lab Interior

Fig. 2

Mechanical Space