Project SHORE (Shire Operations for Regenerative Expansion) was master planned to be a new build-to-suit campus for Shire’s Regenerative Medicine Business Unit and provide increased commercial production capacity of Dermagraft, a dermal substitute approved for treatment of diabetic foot ulcers, along with future capacity for other products. The master plan includes an ultimate build out of up to 850,000 square feet on 28 acres. Phase 1 of the project comprised two buildings totaling 350,000 square feet. The Technical Operations Building includes Manufacturing, Laboratory, Warehouse, Distribution, and Central Utility space. A Commercial Operations Building was designed to house Administrative Offices, a Full-Service Cafeteria, a Fitness Center, a Training Room and Conference Rooms. A pedestrian tunnel with enhanced artwork was designed to safely connect the two parcels underneath the road. The project was developed using a High Performance Team (HPT) with the owner, project managers, contractors, sub-contractors, architects and engineers co-located in a large trailer complex on the site. This supported a highly coordinated team effort with a mission statement and core values created by the HPT Board of Directors to foster trust and guide the culture of the entire project team. This team utilized a very high level of Building Information Modeling (BIM) to improve coordination of building systems and utilize best practices for efficient project delivery. FPBA processed over 20 permits to support the fast-tracked schedule including overall entitlements, grading, steel frame, tunnel, shell and tenant improvement building permits. Although the project construction ended before completion, design documentation was fully complete and many of the High Performance Team methodologies were tested during the first phases of construction. This project will be a model for project delivery excellence in the industry.
FPBA and C.W. Driver joined forces to design and construct the School of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences at San Diego State University. Through the design-build process, the team assisted the university in meeting its LEED goals by identifying components of the existing building able to be reused during the renovation. Existing classrooms and lab spaces were renovated for use by undergraduate, masters and doctoral level students in speech-language pathology, communicative sciences, audiology and American Sign Language/deaf studies. Fast-tracked for completion in six months, FPBA and C.W. Driver successfully completed the 28,000-square-foot, two-story renovation, creating the perfect home for teachers, students and others to instruct, research, learn and improve their way of life.
Gilead Sciences commissioned this project to further its commitment to advancing therapeutics in the quest to improve lives. With over 23 acres in an industrial and manufacturing park in Southern California, Phase 1 is designed for 320,000 usable square feet in five buildings with generous vertical clearances to accommodate manufacturing equipment. The complete campus build-out is master planned for over 600,000 square feet. The facility includes large-scale sterile pharmaceutical manufacturing, lypohilization and final filling in ISO 5 to ISO 8 clean rooms. Tablet and vial packaging lines package and label products made at this site and at contract manufacturing sites across the nation. The lab-office building houses a full-service cafeteria and fitness center, along with QC, validation and manufacturing technical support laboratories. The building materials are of supreme quality, including GFRC panels, concrete, metal and glass. These materials create texture, relief and colors for a richer architectural look. The resulting architecture conveys a clean, modern aesthetic for one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies.
In this project completed for the University of California, Irvine, FPBA sought to evoke the facility’s mission of providing a better quality life to people. Common areas and amenities provide balance to the important, focused research work in the laboratories areas. Working with the existing constraints of the low-clearance basement proved to be the biggest challenge, as the space receives almost no natural light. To counteract this, uplifting colors are applied throughout the space, and the general ambience is greatly enhanced with the high ceilings and direct/indirect lighting that bounces off ceilings. The resulting facility maximizes research space, including bench, shelving and equipment. BIM enabled FPBA to realistically model the space and utility coordination before the first construction activity occurred, saving the entire team time, money and rework. Should future changes need to be made, they will be designed with the benefit of an accurate 3D model of all existing conditions.
This 10-acre park was designed for the City of Poway to coincide with the character of the “Old Poway Park.” FPBA designed the public amenities around old growth trees to achieve a rustic style. The park includes a Snack Shack building, a 2,400-square-foot-facility located in the flood plane of Aubrey Park, and four ball fields with backstops and dugouts for the Poway Girls Softball League. Site amenities include play structures, jogging trails and foot paths as well as public parking.
The La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology is a private biomedical research institute located in UC San Diego’s Science Research Park. The South Shell Lab Build-Out project consists of 6,000 square feet of flexible laboratory space for biomedical research, including a tissue culture lab, principal investigator offices and a lab technician office area. The project improved upon the existing building lab standards by testing multiple laboratory layouts and implementing lessons learned from past projects. The space’s open lab environment encourages a collaborative work environment.
With continued growth and demand, the City of Poway elected to move its library and sheriff station from storefront facilities to a new community service center to accommodate significant expansion of safety personnel in the growing Poway Community. FPBA created a high visibility civic center in an area designated for redevelopment with a flexible learning environment that responds to evolving information technology and print and electronic media. FPBA visually linked the style and architecture of sheriff station with the library, as the community wanted the facilities to be designed using consistent, regional architecture. After the project was completed, community use of the library increased tenfold.
The Carlsbad City Library serves the entire community, providing quality information, resources and evolving technologies to meet ever-changing community needs. This library creates a welcoming environment that supports the needs of the diverse citizenry as well as the city’s growing business community. Carlsbad Library creates a flexible learning environment that responds to evolving information technology and print and electronic media. It features multipurpose facilities that accommodate competing activities, such as a town meeting and a quiet reading area. Described as a library unlike any other in the county, the facility became a model to make libraries the community center of the 21st century.
Gilead Sciences opened its new site in Oceanside by purchasing an existing clinical-scale manufacturing building. Ferguson Pape Baldwin Architects was tasked with creating a campus environment when Gilead acquired the adjacent building to house laboratories and office space. The new site improvements created accessible pedestrian access and landscaping to tie the two buildings together, and the new glass storefront at the lobby entrance provided more natural light. The interior space was master planned to create a mezzanine for utilities and to preserve critical space for a future pilot plant, more labs and offices. Conference rooms, multi-purpose space, a cafeteria and fitness center were added to provide the amenities that had previously been lacking.
Gilead Sciences opened its new site in Oceanside by purchasing an existing clinical-scale manufacturing building. Ferguson Pape Baldwin Architects was tasked with creating a campus environment when Gilead acquired the adjacent building to house laboratories and office space. This parcel had limited parking and site area for utilities, so FPBA utilized its past experience in Oceanside to negotiate entitlement approvals with the local Business Park Association and obtain a Conditional Use Permit from the City for a reduced parking count. The new site improvements created pedestrian access and landscaping to tie the two buildings together and new glass storefront at the lobby entrance provided more natural light. The interior space was master planned to create a mezzanine for utilities and to preserve critical space for a future pilot plant, more labs and offices. Conference rooms, multi-purpose space, a cafeteria and fitness center were added to provide the amenities that had previously been lacking. The project was executed on an accelerated schedule in compliance with Gilead’s design standards. This project strengthens Gilead’s portfolio for research and development in Southern California with a strong base for recruiting of new staff and space for expansion to accommodate new functions. This project was a collaborative effort with BN Builders and a design-build team of engineers and contractors.
