Upgraded Suite Maintains GMP Qualities While Satisfying Requirements for Select Agent Biosafety
In order to manufacture 1,000 doses of a promising new vaccine against a potential biological weapon agent and a disease with significant military importance, government contractor SAIC Frederick had to find space that could satisfy stringent biosafety requirements and still provide a clean manufacturing environment--two goals that are in some ways at odds. The solution involved turning 800 sf of space within an existing GMP facility into an enhanced BSL-3 suite (i.e. BSL-3E), enabling the company to ensure the safety of personnel and the surrounding community while protecting the vaccine against contamination during production.

Reports Yield Information that is More Accurate, Current, and Consistent
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) had all the data it needed to manage two million sf of research space in Richland, Wash., but it had trouble synthesizing that data into meaningful reports that responded to specific information requests. The solution was to create a data mart that takes advantage of the company's existing data warehouse and the co-operative relationship between members of its Business Information Systems Council.

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
The Public Health Sciences (PHS) building on the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's main campus continues a series of projects started in 1988 to unite four scientific divisions (previously dispersed throughout more than a dozen buildings in Seattle) onto one site. The new campus-like setting offers improved organization for Fred Hutchinson and provides state-of-the-art laboratories to support the diverse research conducted at the Center.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The Advanced Microscopy Laboratory (AML) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is a new 6,900-sf, world-class microscopy laboratory built to house the latest generation of electron microscopes that can resolve, for example, single isolated atoms, or columns of atoms in a crystal separated (in projection) by less than the diameter of a single atom. The building houses a number of sensitive instruments including transmission electron microscopes, scanning transmission electron microscopes, field-ion microscopes, and other related instruments.

Outsourcing Agreement Signals Shift in Business Structure
Slightly more than a year old, the outsourcing contract between Procter & Gamble (P&G) and Jones Lang LaSalle for bundled FM services is a win-win relationship for both parties--exactly what the consumer goods giant initially intended. On all fronts the agreement is living up to mutual expectations, from reducing costs without compromising service quality to spawning broader career opportunities for former P&G employees, all while allowing Jones Lang LaSalle to deploy resources to benefit its own bottom line.