Air Products Builds Global Headquarters Complex

Industrial gas manufacturer Air Products is constructing its $400 million global headquarters in Lehigh Valley, Pa. Accommodating over 2,000 employees, the complex will provide a 525,000-sf administrative building, a world-class R&D center, and an enclosed parking structure.

Top 10 Reports of 2019

1. Academic Workplace Evolution: How Universities Are Rethinking Spaces for Faculty and Staff
2. Using Data-Driven Design to Produce Research-Supported, Customized Client Solutions
3. Five Space Planning Principles to Avoid the Inefficiencies of Research Program Turnover
4. University of Michigan/Ford Robotics Building Designed for Research and Recruitment
5. Designing Academic Research Facilities for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
6. Combining Research, Medicine, and Athletics to Create New Translational Models
7. LAB2050: Imagining the Lab of the Half Century
8. First Engineering-Based Medical School Integrates Disciplines with an Eye to the Future
9. Adding Manufacturing to a Pharmaceutical Research Lab
10. Designing Diverse Learning Environments and Maker Spaces

Fujifilm Constructs Gene Therapy Innovation Center

Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies will begin construction in March of 2020 on the $55 million Gene Therapy Innovation Center in College Station, Texas.

Unilever Opens Hive Innovation Centre

Unilever opened the Foods Innovation Centre in December of 2019. Located on the campus of Wageningen University in the Netherlands, the $94 million Hive facility offers collaborative research and development facilities for the creation of sustainable food products.

HALIX Opens Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing Facility

HALIX opened a 72,000-sf biopharmaceutical development and manufacturing center in November of 2019 at Leiden Bio Science Park in the Netherlands. The five-story structure provides BSL-2 cleanrooms with unidirectional process flows that can easily be upgraded to BSL-3 as needed.

Thermo Fisher Opens Viral Vector Facility

Thermo Fisher Scientific opened a $90 million viral vector facility in  December of 2019 in Lexington, Mass.

AZI Constructs Isotope Production and Research Facility

AZI is constructing an 85,000-sf isoptope production and research facility in Bunker Hill, Ind. The $44.5 million project includes the expansion of a 55,000-sf shell building by 30,000 sf to accommodate a 280,000-pound 70MeV cyclotron.

Amazon Plans Robotics Innovation Hub

Amazon is planning to construct a $40 million robotics innovation hub in Westborough, Mass.

WuXi Biologics Expands Dundalk Pharmaceutical Campus

WuXi Biologics is planning to expand its pharmaceutical manufacturing campus in Dundalk, Ireland. A three-story, 167,000-sf vaccine production plant will leverage single-use technologies and processes to optimize efficiency and scalability.

Great Ormond Street Hospital Opens Zayed Centre for Research into Rare Disease in Children

Great Ormond Street Hospital opened the £42 million Zayed Centre for Research into Rare Disease in Children in October of 2019 in London.