Designing the Future of Manufacturing:
Where Innovation Meets the Workforce Environment
MACKENZIE PROFILE
Designing the Future of Manufacturing: Where Innovation Meets the Workforce Environment
Shaping Our Future As the manufacturing industry races into a new era — fueled by the rise of gigafactories, advanced technologies, and sustainable imperatives — so too must the spaces that support it. Our firm has a longstanding history of partnering with manufacturers and real estate professionals to create environments that drive productivity, foster innovation, and enable sustainable economic growth. From site selection to final commissioning, our integrated architecture and engineering services ensure facilities are efficient, resilient, and future-ready. As global demand surges — with over 150 new battery factories expected by 2030 alone according to Siemens — Mackenzie is at the forefront of designing workplaces that help our clients stay competitive in a rapidly evolving world. Mackenzie is a design firm for the built environment. For over 60 years, our services have evolved, and we now offer a range of disciplines including architecture, interior design, structural, civil engineering, land use planning, and landscape architecture. Our core values are summarized in our mission statement: We are a team of individual identities and diverse perspectives found on the details that deliver design excellence, invested in the wellbeing of our people, our clients, and the communities in which we work.
Designing the Future of Manufacturing: Where Innovation Meets the Workforce Environment
Why Clients Partner with Mackenzie Proven expertise in heavy as well as light industrial and manufacturing facility design Strategic alignment with future-focused industries such as semiconductor technology, battery manufacturing and clean technology Commitment to creating sustainable, energy-efficient, productive workplaces Collaborative project delivery that accelerates time-to-market for growing businesses
Designing the Future of Manufacturing: Where Innovation Meets the Workforce Environment
Services & Clients The services we offer are expansive and grounded in design thinking in the art and science of architecture, interiors, engineering, and land use planning. Companies that have benefited from our expertise include:
End Users
Developers
General Contractors Anderson Construction
AIM Aerospace
Bridge Development
Amazon
Capstone Partners
Bremik
Lift Partners
Conlan Company
Autodesk/Portland Incubator Experiment
PacTrust
Click Bond
Pannatoni
CSI Construction Company Deacon Construction Fortis
Danner Boots
Port of Portland
DWFritz
Port of Seattle
Farwest Steel
Prologis
Grainger
Seefried Properties
Leatherman
Specht
Oregon Metal Slitters
Trammell Crow Company
Triad Machinery
Timberlane
Scanlan Kemper Bard (SKB)
Turner Construction
Welded Tube Yogi Tea
Hoffman Construction Perlo Construction Sierra Construction Skanska Swinerton
VCC, LLC Western Construction Services Yates
Designing the Future of Manufacturing: Where Innovation Meets the Workforce Environment
Unified Design Services Architecture The architecture team delivers design excellence with a clientfocused, results-oriented approach informed by decades of experience. With a focus on our clients’ needs, and a cost-effective process, we’ve designed a very wide variety of building types for both public and private clients. Mackenzie’s architects aim to create lasting value for clients, their communities, and their environment.
Interior Design Our interiors group creates flexible designs, and prizes a layout’s ability to adapt to future uses and changes in client demands. The team has expertise in sustainable design methods, as well as a deep understanding of how the built environment influences the experience and performance of its users.
Land Use Planning Our land use planning expertise, developed over decades of working with private and public sector clients, is structured around a solution-oriented approach to development issues. Our varied experience, and our up-to-date knowledge of public policy and regulatory issues, enables us to recognize opportunities to benefit our clients and enhance project value.
Landscape Architecture The landscape team pursues the creation of meaningful places. We achieve this through design solutions that simultaneously meet the client’s goals, reflect the values and characteristics of the surrounding context and enhance the natural environment, and enhance the natural environment.
Structural Engineering Our structural engineers develop sophisticated, cost-effective solutions in concrete, steel, post-tensioned systems, and wood. The team is well versed in the unique structural challenges of clear spans, heavy loading, vibration reduction, and in a region vulnerable to earthquakes, our team is on the leading-edge of seismic design and upgrades.
Civil Engineering Our civil engineering staff excels with fast-track project approaches, and has in-depth experience in stormwater design, drainage, construction staging, roadway standards, and the hydraulic design of transportation systems. We focus on anticipating problems and identifying solutions, expediting the permit process, meeting crucial time schedules, and forecasting budgets. Designing the Future of Manufacturing: Where Innovation Meets the Workforce Environment
PROJECT EXAMPLES
Designing the Future of Manufacturing: Where Innovation Meets the Workforce Environment
Innovation Centers
The future of advanced manufacturing depends on seamless integration — where research, workforce training, and production coexist in dynamic, purpose-built environments. Our work in designing innovation centers creates spaces that connect talent pipelines, accelerate technology transfer, and support end-toend product development. These centers are more than buildings — they are ecosystems. Our firm partners with public and private stakeholders to design facilities that align with regional economic strategies and industry needs. From cleanrooms and high-bay labs to workforce training classrooms and advanced manufacturing floors, we create environments that drive both discovery and deployment.
Designing the Future of Manufacturing: Where Innovation Meets the Workforce Environment
Aerospace Innovative Center Campus plan and concept development for the City of Kent. The campus was developed with the diverse youth and adult populations of South King County in mind as a space to explore science, engineering, technologies, arts, and math. The City located this project on city-owned lands strategically placed at the “fiftyyard line” of the Kent Valley and within the walkable grid of its historic downtown. A partnership with Avenue 55 was formed to bring this project to fruition. The project supports a modern way of engaging with students outside of the traditional classroom, and providing exposure to the worlds of innovation, imagination, and collaboration that lie ahead in advanced careers in the region, with a focus on the intersection of digital and traditional hardware skills that are remaking career pathways.
Designing the Future of Manufacturing: Where Innovation Meets the Workforce Environment
Location Kent, WA Client City of Kent and Avenue 55 Size 250,000 SF building 9.4 acre site
T2 Mass Timber Innovation Hub Mass timber manufacturing facility to support our regional economy. Mackenzie was tasked with designing the site into a new mass timber innovation campus including manufacturing and R+D space, University of Oregon Research Lab, business incubator and public spaces. The facility will build mass timber panels for modular homes, which will be barged and trucked from Terminal 2 to communities in need around Oregon. The campus will also serve as a small business incubator, inclusive of women and diverse communities, and as a location for workforce training.
Designing the Future of Manufacturing: Where Innovation Meets the Workforce Environment
Location Portland, OR Client Oregon Mass Timber Coalition led by the Port of Portland Size 53 acres
Cleantech Facilities
At the forefront of the energy revolution, battery manufacturers require more than just space — they need high-performance environments that scale with demand, optimize energy use, and meet rigorous safety standards. Our team delivers tailored design and engineering solutions that harness the next generation of power generation.
Designing the Future of Manufacturing: Where Innovation Meets the Workforce Environment
Project Kansas New $4 billion electric vehicle battery plant. The facility, the largest economic development in Kansas’s history, is expected to support 4,000 permanent employees and bring in $2.5 billion in yearly economic activity. The plant has a U-shaped footprint sited around support and utility facilities and will be constructed in phases due to its complexity and size. The current focus of design is on the production facility, as well as designing spaces for staff in alignment with Panasonic’s employee-centric culture.
Designing the Future of Manufacturing: Where Innovation Meets the Workforce Environment
Location De Soto, KS Client Panasonic Size 600 acres
Designing the Future of Manufacturing: Where Innovation Meets the Workforce Environment
Twelve The first CO2-based eJet propulsion fuel manufacturing plant. This existing industrial site was home to a sugar beet processing facility. This was demolished to provide a brownfield site for this 21st century operation. The key to this location was its abundance of power immediately available. Twelve will operate a demonstration plant to show their proprietary technology that uses electricity to split water and CO2. This process produces hydrogen and carbon monoxide. These are combined to produce “syngas” — synthetic hydrocarbon gas they then process into sustainable aviation fuel.
Location Moses Lake, WA Client Twelve Size 12-acre campus with four buildings
Twelve will install and operate a plant that produces 5 BPSD of SAF that meets ASTM D7566.
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Semiconductor/R&D
Innovation begins at the intersection of flexibility and function. These projects showcase how our integrated design approach supports cutting-edge research, prototyping, and production — enabling our clients to accelerate product development in an environment built for discovery.
Designing the Future of Manufacturing: Where Innovation Meets the Workforce Environment
Confidential Client—Clean Room and Facilities Upgrade A semiconductor facility retooled for the future. The Mackenzie team, in collaboration with Corbin Consulting Engineers, provided design, engineering, and construction support for the complete renovation and modernization of a facility to manufacture silicon carbide automotive computer chips. The project included extensive modifications to the 300,000 SF fab cleanroom and subfab building. The arrangement of the fab was updated to suit a new tool layout, and system upgrades included capacity increases to makeup air and exhaust systems, the mechanical and process utility distribution “backbone,” spec and bulk gases, chemical and drain distribution systems, and the electrical distribution system. Additionally, the facility’s data center was upgraded to meet client standards, with a second data center and backup data center created in an adjacent building.
Designing the Future of Manufacturing: Where Innovation Meets the Workforce Environment
Location Roseville, CA Client Confidential Size 500,000 SF
Confidential Semiconductor R&D Client Technology campus with R&D, manufacturing, and office functions. The campus is designed to create a cohesive, interconnected environment to integrate R&D, manufacturing and office functions, and utilities. The campus buildings’ brick and storefront design retains their simple elegance decades after design and construction. Mackenzie also designed a two-story cleanroom addition to an engineering building, and infrastructure updates including utility and parking improvements. Mackenzie has provided a wide range of design services for this global provider of semiconductor processing equipment for more than 20 years.
Designing the Future of Manufacturing: Where Innovation Meets the Workforce Environment
Location Tualatin, OR Client Confidential Size 58 acre site, 36,500 SF building footprint
Designing the Future of Manufacturing: Where Innovation Meets the Workforce Environment
Confidential Semiconductor R&D Client Collaborative manufacturing and office building design to drive innovation.
Location
This facility houses multiple functions for multiple work divisions. The building contains Class 1,000 and 10,000 cleanrooms on a two story waffle slab. It provides a collaboration where close work can be done with customers to jointly create solutions. The site utilizes the latest process, inspections, measurement, and analysis systems technologies to create unique solutions.
Client
The design focused on a spine of collaboration and conference spaces, where staff from distinct divisions can come together to connect and create. Connection is a cornerstone for this company. They wanted to have a flexible space for staff to relax or host events. Based on that goal, we designed a spacious break room and presentation area that capitalized on the amazing views.
Hillsboro, OR
Confidential Size 218,000 SF Project components Office space for inter-division collaboration Class 1,000 Fab/Subfab for R&D and product demonstration Semiconductor tool layout planning Microscope lab Training classrooms Mechanical and electrical support rooms Warehouse
Designing the Future of Manufacturing: Where Innovation Meets the Workforce Environment
Designing the Future of Manufacturing: Where Innovation Meets the Workforce Environment
Confidential Advanced Technology Client Summary programming, lab layout, and tool movement for a new facility. Mackenzie recently provided design services to facilitate the sale of a production division to this confidential client. Our team worked closely with project stakeholders to review existing lab conditions and develop a condensed and highly efficient layout of tools and systems that were moved from existing labs across the seller’s campus to this new facility. The team focused on utility conveyance optimization to minimize cost and project impacts, working closely with the general contractor for real time cost and schedule analysis. Mackenzie analyzed and oversaw the Tool Utility Matrix (TUM) as the primary driver of the facility. Our team articulated the impacted area summaries, while developing a working tool planning solution to the required lab areas. Through our team’s development with lab owners and mechanical/electrical teams, the planning and tool layouts resulted in optimized grouping to facilitate both functionality and utility efficiency.
Designing the Future of Manufacturing: Where Innovation Meets the Workforce Environment
Location Rancho Cordova, CA Client Confidential
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Logistics and Distribution Facilities
Mackenzie is at the forefront of designing logistics and distribution spaces, where cutting-edge innovation intersects with a skilled workforce. With decades of experience, we understand how thoughtful design can drive significant business value. Our expertise spans a wide array of industrial and manufacturing design features, including truck maneuvering, trailer and outside storage, clear height requirements, slab design, bay spacing, fire protection systems, conveyors, cold storage, and energy-efficient design. By integrating advanced robotics with human ingenuity, we create dynamic environments that enhance operational efficiency and safety. This harmonious blend of technology and people ensures that our spaces are not only productive but also adaptable to future advancements. Mackenzie consistently designs over two to three million square feet of distribution and industrial space annually, setting the standard for innovative and efficient logistics and distribution facilities.
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Confidential Fulfillment Centers Multiple large-scale fulfillment centers. These were developer-led projects for a confidential end user. The projects were designed to follow the end user’s program and requirements including bay spacing, clear height, office, super flat floors, energy efficient lighting, a reflective thermoplastic roofing membrane, early suppression fast response fire sprinklers, security systems, and HVAC management systems.
Location Arlington, DuPont, and Pasco, WA; Portland and Salem, OR; Baton Rouge, LA; Houston, TX; Ontario, CA; Phoenix, AZ; Slate Hill, NY; FL; and DE Client Confidential Size Various sizes from 750K SF to 3.8M SF
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Portside A speculative industrial project located near the Port of Vancouver, WA. The project team smoothly navigated the City of Vancouver Streamline Permit Process. The site has parking for 264 cars, a wide truck court, and parking for over 96 trailers. The buildings will have a clear height of 30’ with an Early Suppression Fast Response sprinkler system, and are designed to accommodate multiple tenants.
Designing the Future of Manufacturing: Where Innovation Meets the Workforce Environment
Location Vancouver, WA Client Confidential Size 352,874 SF; Two buildings at 257,609 SF and 95,265 SF
Designing the Future of Manufacturing: Where Innovation Meets the Workforce Environment
Light and Heavy Manufacturing
Mackenzie is a recognized leader in designing industrial manufacturing projects, ranging from small maker spaces, to food/beverage manufacturing, to highly controlled advanced manufacturing technologies. Each project often includes a unique set of requirements based on the Client’s process, whether it impact entitlement and permitting approach, particular structural requirements, or unique code challenges. These projects are a cornerstone of our business and include a wide variety of expertise including: Advanced manufacturing/ automation Crane design and coordination Hazardous occupancies Heavy equipment foundations, High pile storage
Multi-story distribution Automated/robotic facilities Re-engineered buildings. Technical coordination of MEPF and process engineering systems Energy efficiency strategies
Designing the Future of Manufacturing: Where Innovation Meets the Workforce Environment
Water and wastewater treatment Cold storage Corporate offices space and interiors Last mile distribution
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Farwest Steel A heavy manufacturing and office facility for steel fabrication. The fabrication building is pile-founded, with heavy reinforced floor slabs to accommodate 20 ton overhead cranes, has a 25-foot hook height and overall building clear height of 35.’ The project was subject to local, state, and federal permits, including floodplain, shorelines, SEPA, and streamlined development review. The team collaborated with the Port of Vancouver, City of Vancouver, State of Washington, Columbia River Economic Development Council, and non-profit community groups to secure financial incentives. The site design included coordination of a rail spur to the building and coordination of heavy process machinery.
Designing the Future of Manufacturing: Where Innovation Meets the Workforce Environment
Location Vancouver, WA Client Farwest Steel Size 360,000 SF manufacturing; 20,000 SF office
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Premier Gear A ground-up build-to-suit gear fabrication facility. The design prioritized ease of access: trucks can drive through the facility, and be loaded or unloaded by overhead bridge cranes in every bay. Mackenzie developed an equipment plan with the owner, and designed specialty foundations to accommodate customized heavy machinery. Mackenzie provided an integrated design team with architecture, interior design, structural and civil engineering, land use planning, and landscape architecture.
Designing the Future of Manufacturing: Where Innovation Meets the Workforce Environment
Location Canby, OR Client Premier Gear Size 60,240 SF
Designing the Future of Manufacturing: Where Innovation Meets the Workforce Environment
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Designing the Future of Manufacturing: Where Innovation Meets the Workforce Environment