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Think What’s Possible

Page is a powerfully imaginative and collaborative architecture and engineering firm: one that’s ready for today and designed for what comes next. We pair form with function, reason with emotion, and ideas with expert implementation. At Page, the potential of what’s possible is paired with the practicality of how to make it happen. Our purpose is designing places smarter, while improving the experiences of those who work, live, and learn in them. From thought to finish, Page experts—of all disciplines—see the big picture, figure the best way forward, and deliver solutions in inventive and amazing ways. Imagine that.

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Academic Designing future learning institutions.

SERVICES PROVIDED

Academic Planning & Programming

Analytics / Data

Building Sciences

Campus Planning

Commissioning

Historic Preservation

Innovation District Planning

Interior Design

IT / Security

Lab Planning

Landscape Architecture

MEP / FP Engineering

Modernization / Renovations

Structural Engineering

Wayfinding / Signage / Branding

What can design do to foster student success? Optimize campus resources? Create innovative and forward-thinking learning, living and research environments?

From campus planning and programming to engineering and high-performance design, our multidisciplinary team offers solutions that support your strategic goals, provide equitable access, prioritize health and wellbeing, and look to the future with flexible and resilient design approaches.

With more than 700 projects at over 400 colleges, universities, and schools nationwide, our built portfolio includes academic, STEM, health and medical education, innovation centers, student life, arts and performing arts centers, along with PK-12 facilities.

Our campus planning and analytics team has supported over 100 public and private university campuses throughout the country and abroad.

As interdisciplinary learning continues to combine disciplines and cross boundaries, our designers are creating new environments that inspire the next generation of learners to help foster innovation, collaboration, and discovery.

Schools of Engineering

Bryant University Academic Innovation Center (AIC) Smithfield, Rhode Island

Expertise Schools of Engineering

ENGINEERING PROGRAMS SERVED

Cleveland State University

Colorado State University

George Mason University

Georgia Institute of Technology

Johns Hopkins University

Lehigh University

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mississippi State University

New York University

Northeastern University

North Carolina A&T University

Penn State University

Rochester Institute of Technology

Seattle University

Syracuse University

SUNY Polytechnic Institute

Texas A&M University Galveston

Texas A&M University Health Science Center

Texas A&M International University

The College of New Jersey

Trinity University

Union College

University at Buffalo

University of Colorado Boulder

University of Delaware

University of Florida

University of Maryland

University of Massachusetts Boston

University of Massachusetts - Lowell

University of Rochester

University of Oklahoma

University of Scranton

University of South Carolina

University of Tennessee Martin

University of Texas at Arlington

University of Texas Austin

University of Texas at Dallas

Virginia Commonwealth University

Virginia Tech

Wentworth Institute

Yale University

Page is a nationally recognized leader in the planning and design of teaching and research environments for the science and engineering disciplines. We integrate expertise across all aspects of the design process to create built environments that facilitate innovation and showcase the excitement of discovery. We have designed millions of square feet of laboratories and technology-enriched facilities which enhance education and engage industry.

We help clients create dynamic, healthy, and inspiring Engineering buildings that embody an institution’s values and mission, empowering users within to push boundaries and be pioneers. We strive to enable hands-on learning, optimize access to resources and equipment, and efficiently accommodate both student projects and sponsored research. This often includes teaching and research spaces that can flexibly adapt to new, emerging cross-disciplinary programming. Specialized yet flexible makerspaces, student projects and club spaces, clean vs dirty areas, equipmentintensive labs, robotics labs, computational areas, and impactful student collaboration and presentation areas are often part of the planning.

Our designs respect how both equipment and actual people work, and our work helps bolster the student experience for a seamless transition into careers in industry. We strive to balance the building’s technical needs with the social, pedagogical, and physical needs of students, faculty, and industry partners.

Virginia Tech Goodwin Hall Blacksburg, Virginia

Schools of Engineering Work

AGRICULTURAL

Penn State Agricultural and Biological Engineering Building

BIOENGINEERING

Boston University Bioengineering Technology and Entrepreneurship Center (BTEC)

Colorado State University Scott Bioengineering Building

Union College Peter Irving Wold Center

UT Dallas Bioengineering and Science Building (BSB)

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

The College of New Jersey STEM Complex

Texas A&M University EnMed Building

Union College Ainlay Hall Integrated Science and Engineering Complex

The University of Oklahoma Biomedical Gallogly Hall Engineering Academic Building

UT Dallas Natural Science and Engineering Research Laboratory (NSERL)

Virginia Tech Goodwin Hall

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering

Northeastern University Mixed-Use Research Building

Texas A&M University Academic Innovation Center

The University of Oklahoma Biomedical Gallogly Hall Engineering Academic Building

Trinity University Center for the Sciences and Innovation (CSI)

Virginia Tech Goodwin Hall

CIVIL ENGINEERING

Seattle University The Jim and Janet Sinegal Center for Science and Innovation

The College of New Jersey STEM Complex

UT Martin STEM Building Study

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Seattle University

The Jim and Janet Sinegal Center for Science and Innovation

Texas A&M University Academic Innovation Center

University of Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) Building

Union College Peter Irving Wold Center

UT Martin STEM Building Study

Lehigh University Mountaintop Campus

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

Colorado State University Scott Bioengineering Building

Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering

NC A&T Harold L. Martin Sr. Engineering Research and Innovation Complex (ERIC)

Seattle University

The Jim and Janet Sinegal Center for Science and Innovation

The College of New Jersey STEM Complex

Trinity University Center for the Sciences and Innovation (CSI)

Union College Peter Irving Wold Center

Union College Ainlay Hall Integrated Science and Engineering Complex

UT Arlington Science Engineering and Innovation Research (SEIR) Building

UT Martin STEM Building Study

UT Dallas Natural Science and Engineering Research Laboratory (NSERL)

UT Dallas Bioengineering and Science Building (BSB)

Virginia Tech Goodwin Hall

ENGINEERING EDUCATION

The College of New Jersey New STEM Building

University of Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) Building

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

Colorado State University Scott Bioengineering Building

Texas A&M University at Galveston Ocean and Coastal Studies Building

Union College Peter Irving Wold Center

INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING

George Mason University FUSE at Mason Square

University of Maryland E.A. Fernandez IDEA Factory

Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering

Seattle University The Jim and Janet Sinegal Center for Science and Innovation

Texas A&M University EnMed Building

Texas A&M University at Galveston Ocean and Coastal Studies Building

Trinity University Center for the Sciences and Innovation (CSI)

Tufts University Nolop FAST Facility

Union College Ainlay Hall Integrated Science and Engineering Complex

University of Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) Building

UNC Charlotte Burson Hall

UT Martin STEM Building Study

NC A&T Harold L. Martin Sr. Engineering Research and Innovation Complex (ERIC)

Northeastern University Mixed-Use Research Building

MANUFACTURING AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

UT Martin STEM Building Study

NC A&T Harold L. Martin Sr. Engineering Research and Innovation Complex (ERIC)

MARINE ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY

Texas A&M University at Galveston Ocean and Coastal Studies Building

MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

Penn State Edward Steidle Building

UT Dallas Bioengineering and Science Building (BSB)

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

George Mason University Life Sciences and Engineering Building (LSEB)

Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering

Seattle University The Jim and Janet Sinegal Center for Science and Innovation

The College of New Jersey STEM Complex

Trinity University Center for the Sciences and Innovation (CSI)

Union College Ainlay Hall Integrated Science and Engineering Complex

UT Martin STEM Building Study

UT Dallas Bioengineering and Science Building (BSB)

Virginia Tech Goodwin Hall

NANOTECHNOLOGY

SUNY Polytechnic Institute The Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering

Union College Integrated Science and Engineering Complex

ROBOTICS

George Mason University College of Engineering and Computing Robotics and Autonomous Systems

George Mason University FUSE at Mason Square

NC A&T Harold L. Martin Sr. Engineering Research and Innovation Complex (ERIC)

The College of New Jersey STEM Complex

Virginia Tech Goodwin Hall

Space Types

High Bay Space

Makerspaces Research Labs Student Projects

Entrepreneurship Spaces

Computationally-Driven Spaces

Robotics Labs

What Do You Think? Inspiring the Pursuit of Curiosity

We’re curious, so we ask questions – bold, messy, sometimes outrageous questions – because we want to partner with you to discover solutions. When the right questions are matched with the right expertise, we can accomplish amazing things like connecting community, next-gen learning, long life / loose fit, agile collaborations, timeless relationships, empowering engagement, blurred boundaries, creative stewardship. What are you thinking about?

Let’s explore that together.

Curiosity

Academic Sector Team

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Melissa Burns aia, leed ap bd+c

Principal / Lead Planner mburns@pagethink.com

Brian Tucker aia, leed ap bd+c

Principal / Lead Planner btucker@pagethink.com

Rick Clarke aia, leed ap bd+c Principal / Design Director rclarke@pagethink.com

David McCullough aia, pe Principal / Science and Technology Director dmccullough@pagethink.com

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Principal / Senior Project Manager lvargas@pagethink.com

Alissa McFarland aia, leed ap bd+c

Principal /Science and Technology Director amcfarland@pagethink.com

Developing the next generation of entrepreneurs Creative

University of Maryland

E.A. Fernandez IDEA Factory

College Park, Maryland

Project Size

60,000 Square Feet

Service Provided Architecture / Programming / Planning / Lab Planning / Interiors

Program Features

ƒ Cross-disciplinary Engineering

ƒ Entrepreneurship

ƒ Design prototyping labs

ƒ High bay labs

ƒ Rotorcraft, Robotics, Autonomy labs

ƒ Quantum technology labs

ƒ Community engagement space

ƒ Engineering Café

Pushing the limits of what’s possible, the team designed a building that defies gravity — floating a solid box of flexible research space above two glass levels of student innovation and collaboration spaces. Dubbed the IDEA (Innovate, Design and Engineer for America) Factory, the street level invites onlookers to peer inside and see the energy of entrepreneurship at the heart of the Clark School’s reputation. You’ll find undergraduates sharing tools in the Rapid Prototyping Lab, preparing for design competitions in the ALEx Garage innovation workspace, or working on next generation apps in the Startup Shell, an incubator for student-run startups. The Shell already has generated over 60 ventures, valuing $20 million and growing.

Then the second floor, sheathed in glass, encourages students, faculty, and staff to grab a bite of the best food on campus while exchanging thoughts in collaboration areas and conference rooms. Great ideas often emerge after faculty lunch-time presentations and create buzz in this social hub for the engineering school. Floating above these inviting spaces, the box of research labs allows walls to be reconfigured in a snap, providing the University unprecedented ease in adapting to research demands. Home to the Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Center, drones zoom by, and students explore bio mimicry in the Robotics Realization Lab. Tucked away below ground is the Quantum Technology Center, hosting sensitive equipment harnessing the power of the very small.

Combined, the IDEA Factory is a place of curiosity, energy, and exploration, educating 21st-century engineering leaders.

Schools of Engineering

Robust Research

Historic renovation for modern materials

Penn State University

Steidle Building Modernization & Expansion

University Park, Pennsylvania

Project Size

107,000 Square Feet

Service Provided

Architecture / Programming / Planning / Lab Planning / Engineering / Energy Analysis / Interiors

Program Features

ƒ Materials Science and Engineering (MatSE)

ƒ Open bench research clusters

ƒ Metallurgy, Ceramics, Polymers labs

ƒ Energy storage labs

ƒ Additive manufacturing labs

ƒ Collaboration areas

ƒ Undergraduate classrooms

ƒ Historic modernization

Page partnered with Penn State to transform the Steidle Building – a Charles Klauder design contributing to a National Register Historic District – into a sustainable, state-of-the-art teaching and research environment for the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

Originally built in 1931 as a U-shaped floor plan, a center wing was added in 1939. Analysis demonstrated that removing the 1939 wing would allow the addition of a new, larger infill to house highly flexible, technically-robust research spaces, with the building’s original 1931 footprint supporting less intense functions. Open bench “research cluster” suites support the increasingly interdisciplinary, collaborative research environment. Daylighting is driven deep into the building interior via a narrow, skylit atrium. The interior organization respects the symmetrical spirit of the original, but its previously dark, enclosed labs and offices are now infused with natural light and visible activity. The modernization preserves the historic exterior while updating building systems, enhancing accessibility and life safety, and providing infrastructure for current and future materials science research.

The fully modernized building realizes an annual energy savings of 42% relative to the ASHRAE 90.1-2007 baseline. Using a uniquely inclusive scenariobuilding process, the Page design team and PSU staff, using Page’s proprietary energy modeling software, worked together to analyze multiple priorities simultaneously, including first costs, energy performance, and operational savings.

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Meeting Tomorrow’s

Challenges

Hub for hands-on research and engagement

Project Size

130,000 Square Feet

Service Provided

Architecture / Planning / Design Services / Interior Design

Program Features

ƒ Cross-disciplinary Engineering

ƒ Industry partnerships

ƒ High-tech manufacturing labs

ƒ Cyber security and network systems labs

ƒ Energy and sustainability labs

ƒ High bay lab

ƒ Bio-mechanical lab

ƒ Fabrication shops

ƒ Collaboration spaces

NC A&T State University Engineering Research and Inovation Complex (ERIC)

Greensboro, North Carolina

The Harold L. Martin Sr. Engineering Research and Innovation Complex (ERIC) at North Carolina A&T State University is a state-of-the-art interdisciplinary and multi-functional facility for academics, research, and community engagement. It provides the technology, environment, and education necessary to meet the global challenges of tomorrow. The $90 million facility hosts experiential learning and prototyping laboratories and studies, distance learning facilities, and modern learning spaces designed for hands on practice and innovation. The interior spaces of ERIC contains thematic research spaces, living labs/ experiential studios, modern reconfigurable classrooms, office and meeting spaces, and strategically designed open/green spaces.

When you stop by the ERIC, you’ll find students inventing new prototypes in the large makerspace, chatting with professors in the airy atrium, or debating energy savings versus embodied carbon on the green roof. Home to Cyber Security and Network Systems, Energy and Sustainability, and Health Applications, the four-story, glass-paneled facility hosts everything from modern reconfigurable classrooms to “living labs,” designated spaces where learning, innovation and practice come together in a user-centered and open way.

The ERIC is a hot spot for innovation. Faculty, staff, and students form industry partnerships and apply speed-to-market principles with new projects, prototypes, and job opportunities that impact the community. A leader in national and regional education, the ERIC highlights what’s possible in STEM Education.

Schools of Engineering

Enabling ‘Physicianeers’

Where engineering meets medicine

Texas A&M University

Engineering Medicine Building Renovation (EnMed)

Houston, Texas

Project Size

280,000 Square Feet

Service Provided

Architecture / Programming / Planning / Lab Planning / Interiors

Program Features

ƒ Novel medical + engineering program

ƒ Biomedical Engineering

ƒ Entrepreneurship

ƒ Prototyping and fabrication shops

ƒ VR simulation

ƒ Team-based learning

ƒ Collaboration spaces

ƒ Office tower modernization/ repurposing

The new Engineering Medicine Building project is the extensive renovation of a 17-story office building and a two-story former bank building to serve as a flagship to Texas A&M University’s revolutionary new Engineering Medicine (EnMed) program. Developed in partnership between the Texas A&M Colleges of Engineering and Medicine and Houston Methodist Hospital, EnMed is an integrated medical and engineering option for medical school that focuses on innovation and entrepreneurship.

The exterior now features an energy-efficient, unitized glazed curtain wall system with stone and metal panels. Inside, the building offers large, reconfigurable learning studios, flexible classrooms, multidisciplinary labs and glass-enclosed collaboration spaces. The building also boasts a café, a 240-seat auditorium, conference spaces, and support areas. But the facility’s crown jewel is the 17th-floor board room and multifunction space, designed to attract the brightest students, world-class faculty, and generous donors.

Serving the engineering curricula is a signature 2,471 square-foot makerspace, with reconfigurable tables, 3D printers, and a convenient machine shop. Students can use the 3D modeling and virtual creation tools in the VR and AR simulation rooms. A floor-to-ceiling glass partition system provides clear views of the innovation happening inside. Embedded in the glass is one of the original bank vault doors, a “vault of ideas” bridging the building’s past and future.

For the healthcare side, the medical education simulation center offers students skills-based training. The simulation suite provides a hospital environment complete with beds, mock headwalls, and integrated teaching space. Here, students work with faculty and patient actors in a life-like clinical setting.

Schools of Engineering

Providing tools to explore Other-Worldly Opportunities

Virginia Tech

Goodwin Hall

Blacksburg, Virginia

Project Size

155,000 Square Feet

Service Provided Programming / Planning / Lab Planning

Program Features

ƒ Mechanical, Aerospace, and Chemical Engineering

ƒ Research and teaching labs

ƒ Terrestrial robotics lab

ƒ Extreme environments lab

ƒ Imaging and optics labs

ƒ Materials characterization labs

ƒ Nanofab labs

ƒ Collaboration spaces

Goodwin Hall provides Virginia Tech with a remarkable new“signature” engineering building. Forty modular instructional and research labs create a high degree of flexibility for faculty collaboration and support of specialized equipment, such as high speed wind tunnels, 3D fabrication, nano characterization and fabrication, materials testing and optics.

The 155,000-square-foot facility houses the mechanical, aerospace, and chemical engineering departments, features robotics teaching labs, such as the Terrestrial Robotics Engineering and Control (TREC) Lab and Extreme Environments, Robotics and Materials (ExtReMe) Lab. The Extreme Environments, Robotics, and Materials Laboratory, for example, contains a Carl Zeiss inverted microscope, sample preparation equipment, a Thermography Digital Image Capture system, an environmental chamber for temperature testing on robotics, a Mechanical Testing Machine, and other extreme environment load testing equipment. This lab represents the type of specialized capabilities supported by the building’s infrastructure and overall lab design.

The Page lab planning team provided lab programming and planning for the LEED Gold certified building which was designed by ZGF Architects.

Industry Partnerships

Research fueled by collaborative relationships

Project Size

104,000 Square Feet

Service Provided Architecture / Programming / Planning / Lab Planning / MEP Engineering / AV and Acoustics / Interiors

Program Features

ƒ Engineering and applied science

ƒ Academic / Government / Industry partnerships

ƒ Entrepreneurship

ƒ Specialty core labs

ƒ Vibration sensitive labs

ƒ High bay Rotorcraft lab

ƒ Outdoor Rotorcraft cage

ƒ Maker and fabrication shops

ƒ Conference center

Northeastern University Mixed-Use Research Building

Burlington, Massachusetts

The Mixed-Use Research Building serves as a scientific hub and cornerstone for the University’s Innovation Campus with a facility that supports an array of academic, government, and private industry research partners collaborating on solutions to enhance the capacity of communities, critical systems, and infrastructure to withstand, respond to, and recover from man-made and natural catastrophes. This building accommodates flexible laboratory space, shared scientific core facilities, high-bay makerspace containing high-tech equipment, including 3-D printers and other prototyping technology, and a conferencing center for students, faculty, and research partners across campus. It is also the home of the university’s Biopharmaceutical Analysis Training Laboratory, which offers training and experiential learning on the intricacies of regulatory considerations for pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, and other related health products.

A roof-level observation terrace allows monitoring of activities in the adjacent Unmanned Aircraft Systems (drone) Testing Facility, which is designed for engineering, prototyping, and fabrication of a range of autonomous systems including aerial drones, underwater UAVs, and autonomous land vehicles. Unique facilities include an outdoor UAS testing facility with RFI attenuation, a high bay fabrication and precision prototyping facility, and shell space for vibration sensitive research instruments. Our integrated A/E design optimizes building efficiency by providing more net assignable space while reducing gross building area. A unitized curtain wall system, prefabricated duct and piping assemblies, and pre-assembled head-end MEP equipment were installed and offer innovative, energy-saving systems to save on first costs while reducing operating costs over the life of the building.

Inspiring a top tech-talent pipeline Vertical Neighborhoods

George Mason University Fuse at Mason Square

Fairfax, Virginia

Project Size

360,500 Square Feet (New Construction + Underground Parking)

Service Provided Architecture / Programming / Planning / Lab Design / Engineering / Sustainability

Program Features

ƒ Computer Science & Engineering

ƒ Artificial intelligence, data analytics, and cyber security programs

ƒ Entrepreneurship

ƒ Industry partnerships

ƒ Makerspaces and workshops

ƒ Flexible classrooms

ƒ Collaboration space

ƒ Events and conferencing

ƒ Retail & public outdoor space

ƒ Targeting LEED Platinum

Dedicated to creating the next generation of Northern Virginia’s technology workforce, Fuse at Mason Square will house graduate-level education and interdisciplinary research in a broad range of programs, including computing, artificial intelligence, data analytics, and cyber security, among others.

Transparency, openness, and connectivity drove the development of the proposed design intended to physically and visually welcome students, educators, entrepreneurs, industry partners, and the community.

Conceived as a series of vertical neighborhoods stacked throughout the structure, Fuse’s design creates a “Main Street” or collaboration spine on each floor with a wide pathway that encourages spontaneous connections between Mason and industry partners. Cross-pollination zones also support a mixingbowl approach to programming — intentionally interweaving Mason’s programs with partners’ spaces on every floor — encouraging connection and teamwork.

Each floor offers a loft-lab or deep lab block with column-free structural bays that meet educational and workplace needs by accommodating large classrooms and open and private offices. And a Specialty Lab core — located on multiple floors — offers a centralized resource of advanced research spaces.

Creating a marquee environment for Mason and industry partners, Fuse boasts open spaces filled with daylight and access to outdoor areas at multiple levels. From the inside out and outside in, you’ll discover dynamic learning, research, and innovation space, bolstering Mason’s efforts to recruit and retain the best and brightest.

Schools of Engineering

Space for disciplines to collide Connecting Community

University of Oklahoma

Gallogly Hall Biomedical Engineering Academic Building

Norman, Oklahoma

Project Size

80,000 Square Feet

Service Provided

Architecture / Programming / Planning / Lab Planning / Engineering / Interiors

Program Features

ƒ Chemistry, Biology, and Biomedical Engineering

ƒ Research and teaching labs

ƒ Studio labs, specialized workshops

ƒ Makerspaces

ƒ Vivarium

ƒ Collaboration spaces

The state-of-the-art Engineering Academic Building for the University of Oklahoma is the final building to complete the Engineering Quadrangle on the Norman campus. The 80,000-square-foot building has become the gathering place for all engineering students, especially in the ground-floor collaboration spaces. This facility houses the Chemistry, Biology and Biomedical Engineering disciplines along with research labs, studio labs, Makerspaces, lecture hall, research workspace and other administrative/support spaces.

The central area of activity in the Engineering Academic Building has been designed to be the ground floor collaborative space called the Living Room. Casual and team interaction, informal meetings and individual studying will occur in a variety of flexible seating and table options. The furniture allows for easy reconfiguration to accommodate student, campus and community events in the space. A grand staircase provides access to the teaching labs on the upper floors, offering students a healthy alternative to the elevator.

This academic building also houses the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, which provides multicultural programs to enhance the diversity of the engineering student body.

Pioneers in Sustainable Stewardship

Where engineering and agriculture meet

Penn State University Agricultural and Biological Engineering Building

University Park, Pennsylvania

Project Size

15,000 Square Feet

(Modernization) + 85,000 Square Feet (New)

Service Provided

Architecture / Programming / Planning / Lab Planning / Energy Analysis / Engineering / Interiors

Program Features

ƒ Agricultural and Biological Engineering

ƒ Industry partnerships

ƒ Ag materials & equipment bays

ƒ Biochemistry research labs

ƒ Fermentation lab

ƒ Bioprocess pilot plant

ƒ Capstone project studio

ƒ Student presentation forum

ƒ High bay space

ƒ Historic modernization/ expansion

Penn State’s iconic campus features works of the renowned architect Charles Klauder. This project modernizes and enlarges Klauder’s historic Agricultural Engineering Building for the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, a program which is ranked in the top 10 of U.S. News’s specialty engineering categories.

The department aspires to be an international leader in research, education and outreach in the most critical agricultural and biologically-based sustainability issues facing the global community. It required modernized facilities to help foster interdisciplinary research with other departments, other universities, governmental entities and industry partners.

The reinvented building supports teaching and research in natural resources engineering and protection, sustainable agricultural business practices, advanced agricultural machinery, harvest safety and logistics, bioproducts, specialty crops systems, bioenergy, bionanotechnology, food processing, fermentation, bioremediation and biorenewables. The building features new research and teaching laboratories, classrooms, a variety of informal collaborative spaces, a student forum for small group presentations, a senior capstone project design lab, faculty offices, a state-of-the-art shared fermentation facility, and a food and bioprocess pilot plant. Sustainable design features include high-efficiency air handling, a green roof, water conservation, daylighting, and prominent use of native Pennsylvania forestry products.

Repurposed and Reinvented

Transforming the academic paradigm

Lehigh University

Mountaintop Campus

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Project Size

63,000 Square Feet

Service Provided

Architecture / Programming / Planning / Lab Planning / Energy Analysis / Engineering / Interiors

Program Features

ƒ Cross-disciplinary engineering

ƒ Computer Science Engineering

ƒ Applied Arts & sciences

ƒ High bay space

ƒ Student project space

ƒ Specialty workshops and makerspaces

ƒ Flexible research labs

ƒ Distance learning classroom

ƒ Repurposing and modernization of historic Bethlehem Steel research campus

Hands-on, research-driven exploration is key at Lehigh University’s Mountaintop Campus. The University aspired to create a novel and experiential 21st century academic environment within its unique Mountaintop setting. Once a series of cavernous Bethlehem Steel buildings, Page’s modernization team transformed the facilities into an invention incubator. Students are freed from standard curricula and challenged to take control of their education, learning by doing.

Within the building, a range of spaces were created for the new Data X analytics program and other collaborative environments for cross disciplinary groups. The architectural interventions effectively harness the energy of the legacy steel production research facility while showcasing the excitement of new discovery.

Three story ‘mixing boxes’ create connectivity between workspaces in the linear ‘Crescent’ and the tall, open high bays. The bays themselves have new infrastructure where teams can come together to create projects and Makerspaces in their ancillary wings. A new linear addition on the east side helps transform the architectural expression from that of a business park building into a true campus building.

The industrial high-bay areas include movable, flexible amenities that allow students to work together on student-led projects, creating solutions for reallife problems with everything from engineering and biology to sociology and music. The limitless environment has fueled innovation, where projects like 3D printing prosthetics for stroke victims, harvesting plants for the hungry, or even studying breeding habits of endangered fish are the norm.

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Highly flexible, technologically robust Engineering

The College of New Jersey New STEM Building

Ewing, New Jersey

Project Size

89,000 Square Feet

Service Provided

Architecture / Programming / Planning / Lab Planning / Energy Analysis / Engineering / Interiors

Program Features

ƒ Biomedical, Mechanical, and Civil Engineering

ƒ Electrical & Computer Engineering

ƒ Cross-disciplinary teaching labs

ƒ Digital design lab

ƒ Metal fabrication workshop

ƒ Prototyping lab

ƒ Robotics lab

ƒ BSL-2 research lab

ƒ Student project space

ƒ Student forum

TCNJ’s new 89,000-square-foot STEM building anchors a crossdisciplinary STEM Complex by uniting the existing science buildings to Armstrong Hall, home of the Engineering program. Reflecting the latest research and pedagogies, the new facility provides cutting-edge academic spaces and labs – including a robotics labs, biosafety level-2 testing labs, an engineering design studio, and a metal fabrication/assembly workshop – as well as student spaces, and faculty offices for the Schools of Engineering and Science.

The heart of the new building and the Complex at large is the Innovation Center – a unique glass-walled environment for collaborative learning and research – that visually and physically connects the digital design lab, student project space, metal fabrication workshop, and prototyping lab with 3D printers and laser cutter. Highly flexible and technologically robust, the venue accommodates multimodal presentations, seminars, and demonstrations of student projects.

Designed to foster group learning through an iterative think/model/make process, the Innovation Center also supports mechanical engineering, robots, and bio-medical engineering, which have adjacent wet labs and clean room.

Phase 1 of the project focuses on the new STEM facility, whose transitional design scheme responds in massing, scale, materials, and details to the campus’s Collegiate Georgian architectural vernacular. The existing Science Complex will be enlarged by 23,600 GSF Chemistry addition. Phase 2 will modernize 56,000 GSF of existing classroom and lab space.

Blurring Boundaries

Empowering engagement, fostering relationships

Seattle University

Jim and Janet Sinegal Center for Science and Innovation

Seattle, Washington

Project Size

275,000 Square Feet

Service Provided

Architecture / Planning / Lab Design

Program Features

ƒ Cross-disciplinary

ƒ Science and Engineering

ƒ Computer technology, AI, and data science

ƒ Entrepreneurship

ƒ Industry partnerships

ƒ Specialty workshops, makerspaces

ƒ Research labs

ƒ Flexible classrooms

ƒ Student commons

ƒ Collaboration and conferencing space

Discovery through science with application through engineering are side-byside in Seattle University’s new Center for Science and Innovation (CSI). Here, students think about possibilities, make connections, and act for the good of the community. Linked with the university’s Bannan Center for Science and Engineering, the CSI is the future of STEM for Seattle University

At the new Center for Science and Innovation (CSI) street level, makerspaces hum with robotics and 3D printers. Engineering students share ideas while waiting in line for lattes. Soon, they’ll meet with mentors from Amazon or Microsoft in high-tech huddle rooms. You’ll also find computer science students working in corporate-style spaces where teams take a hoteling approach, using available tables for workspace and lockers for storage.

The top four floors are packed with biology and chemistry classrooms and research labs. Featuring laboratory planning for the 21st century, the CSI showcases sliding glass doors that seamlessly connect teaching and research spaces. While they’re in class, undergraduate biology and chemistry students can sneak peeks at research happening right next door.

Creating connections across campus and a dynamic public concourse, the CSI offers amenities like the café, coffee shop, and radio station for all to share. A large classroom on the first floor serves as an academic space by day and an activities room by night. There is an event area on the second floor for dining and fundraising activities. A good neighbor to the community, the CSI also is home to the Center for Community Engagement supporting local children and their families. Mithun was the local/executive architect.

Interdisciplinary innovation spills outside Strategic Adjacencies

Trinity University Center for Science and Innovation (CSI)

San Antonio, Texas

Project Size

155,000 Square Feet (New) +

85,000 Square Feet

(Modernization)

Service Provided Architecture / Programming / Planning / Design / MEP and Fire Protection

Program Features

ƒ General Engineering

ƒ Entrepreneurship

ƒ Cross-disciplinary applied sciences

ƒ Flexible teaching and research labs

ƒ Specialty workshops

ƒ ‘Think-Model-Make’ space

ƒ Collaboration spaces

ƒ Green roof

Trailblazing professors inspired Trinity University to strengthen its reputation as a premier institution in STEM disciplines and embark on the largest project in its history - a building dedicated to engineering, science and the entrepreneurial spirit. Big ideas happen here.

Built in three phases, the new Center for the Sciences and Innovation (CSI) complex provides research and teaching labs with technology access for eight departments, creating collisions of ideas and encouraging teamwork.

Strategic adjacencies connect neighborhoods of classrooms, laboratories and offices. Biology and chemistry students spark interdisciplinary conversations as they settle into collaboration spaces. This popular new hub provides unique learning environments, including “the Cube,” a creative makerspace that supports Trinity’s interdisciplinary program in entrepreneurialism. Light-filled, high -bay ceilings promote flexibility. Movable learning “pods” allow classes to break into smaller groups or transition for large-class instruction. Impressive glass garage doors open to the outside, so STEM innovation spills out and inspires passerby.

With RVK Architecture of San Antonio, Page’s design responds to the existing campus’ landscape and building aesthetic, San Antonio’s heritage of Spanish missions, and the region’s natural resources. The local sedimentary rock and its role in retaining the life-sustaining Edwards Aquifer are the heart of the design. The entry courtyard leads to an interior three-story limestone wall, which is porous so you can glimpse teaching, research, science and engineering. The campus’ signature hand-laid “Trinity red” brick, selected by O’Neil Ford, the campus’ first architect and designer, respects Trinity’s legacy.

Advancing Health Science Discoveries

Supporting students in high-demand fields

University of Texas at Arlington Science Engineering and Innovation Research Building (SEIR)

Arlington, Texas

Project Size

229,206 Square Feet

Service Provided

Architecture / Engineering / Lab Planning / Interiors

Program Features

ƒ Health-science oriented

ƒ Collaborative, flexible teaching and research labs

ƒ Life sciences research clusters

ƒ “Science on display”

ƒ Advanced instrumentation and equipment

ƒ Team-based learning spaces

ƒ Student support spaces

ƒ Collaboration spaces

The new University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) Science and Engineering Innovation and Research (SEIR) building is a collaborative, team-based learning and discovery space designed to provide significant student support in workforce needs and research activity. Designed by Page in collaboration with ZGF Architects, the sustainable four-story, 229,206-square-foot facility provides two floors of instructional space, with research activities occupying four floors and a basement level. State-of-the-art teaching is supported by 900 seats, and research space will advance health science discoveries and enable dramatic growth in engineering and science programs.

The modern glass and concrete building creates a new, iconic southern entry to the UTA campus. Each floor incorporates a 150-seat and a 300-seat classroom, both intended for general campus use for larger core courses. A key design aspect is glass interior walls enabling work in the collaborative lab space to be visible to first-year students — a concept known as “science on display.”

The building exceeds LEED Silver® standards for new construction, integrating the performance of the building’s massing, envelope, shading, highly energyefficient heating and cooling systems, water conservation practices, and sustainable materials for flooring and interior finishes.

Interdisciplinary Collisions

Connecting liberal arts, engineering and science

Project Size

142,000 Square Feet

Service Provided Architecture / Programming / Planning / Design Services / Interior Design / Engineering / Sustainability

Program Features

ƒ Biomedical, Mechanical, & Environmental Engineering

ƒ Computer and Electrical Engineering

ƒ Cross-disciplinary Applied Sciences

ƒ Flexible teaching and research labs

ƒ Vivarium

ƒ Collaboration spaces

Union College Integrated Science and Engineering Complex

Schenectady, New York

Union College’s new Integrated Science and Engineering Complex revolutionizes teaching, learning, and research while connecting people and programs across engineering, science, and liberal arts.

Light beams into the airy, four-story light well, greeting students as they enter the facility for a day of learning, research, or even a quick sit in a comfy chair in-between class. Extensive labs and high-level scientific instrumentation are on display through expansive windows, symbolizing Union’s pride in being the first liberal arts college to offer engineering in 1845.

The building is home to the College’s Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Astronomy, Mechanical Engineering, and Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering programs. There’s ample room for students to make interdisciplinary collisions, too, in any of the open, collaborative spaces. Students have easy access to faculty, and vice versa, with offices interwoven throughout the space.

The new building curves its way between the campus’ classic architecture, connecting to adjacent existing buildings through indoor corridors, making it easier for students to get around campus during the winter months. When the sun shines, students enjoy outdoor walking paths equipped with seating areas and an expanded green space serving as a relaxing oasis on campus. Perhaps most importantly, these access points invite non-science majors into the Complex.

Specialized space for science, tech, engineering and health Mixing It Up

George Mason University Life Science and Engineering Building

Fairfax, Virginia

Project Size

133,000 Square Feet

Service Provided Architecture / Programming / Planning / Lab Planning / Energy Analysis / Interiors / Branding and Wayfinding

Program Features

ƒ Multi-disciplinary engineering

ƒ High bay robotics aviary

ƒ Motion capture lab

ƒ Advanced manufacturing lab

ƒ Wind and fluids labs

ƒ Student project areas

ƒ Metal and wood workshops

ƒ Prototyping lab

ƒ Active learning classrooms

ƒ Collaboration spaces

ƒ Event and conference spaces

To support the growth of George Mason University’s Science and Technology campus, the Life Sciences and Engineering Building establishes technical instructional labs, classrooms, support spaces, and workspaces to serve an increasingly multidisciplinary curriculum focused on science, technology, engineering, and health.

The building program consists primarily of highly specialized spaces for instruction that will be used by various disciplines and Colleges/Schools of the University. The space program is organized around typologies, rather than departments, to reflect the multidisciplinary nature of the many programs and uses anticipated to operate in the building. Typologies include Instructional Dry and Wet Labs, Human Performance, Student Design, and University Classrooms. The composition of the program, and subsequent layout of the building, reinforces the two main project objectives of providing attractive and inviting spaces that draw people inside, promote collaboration, and enhance learning experiences by providing innovative environments that entice and engage students and faculty.

While creating its own identity, the new building also activates the new exterior space by providing ample transparency to ground level engineering labs and opening the student design competition bays directly onto the campus circulation path.

Makerspaces for Everyone

Experiential learning, design thinking and prototyping

Tufts University

Robinson Hall Makerspace and Campus Makerspace Study

Medford, Massachusetts

Project Size

5,000 Square Feet

Service Provided

Architecture / Planning / Lab Planning / Engineering / Interiors

Program Features

ƒ Campus-wide makerspace

ƒ School of Engineering student project space

ƒ FAST (Fabrication, Analysis, Simulation, Testing) facility

ƒ 3D printer farm

ƒ Laser cutter, CNC router, power drill, table saw, miter saw, and many other tools

ƒ Collaboration space

Page worked with Tufts University on the programming and design of the FAST (Fabrication, Analysis, Simulation, Testing) Makerspace facility, a space for entry-level ‘makers’ across the Tufts community. This space is one of several specialized maker facilities on campus. It is an integral part of the School of Engineering, but open to students of all disciplines and experience levels.

Located in the lower level of Robinson Hall, Tufts’ new Science and Engineering Complex (SEC), this open and inviting space encourages all students to explore and try new tools and techniques in a safe and supervised setting. Program elements include a Genius Bar, Digital Fabrication Lab, Assembly Floor, and a variety of right-sized social spaces for teamwork and ideation. Tools include 3D printers, laser cutter, CNC router, power drill, table saw, miter saw, and many others. Although some of the tools may seem daunting to novice users initially, the support staff and setting help make the creative experience enjoyable, safe, and sociable.

As an entry-level facility, Tufts’ goal was to create a space with the right mix of equipment and support spaces to help knit together the full array Tufts many specialized fabrication shops located on campus, including the Bray Lab (mechanical engineering-focused), Advanced Production Lab (digital production focused), Digital design Studio (media focused), Crafts Center (ceramics, jewelry, paper, wood and glass focused), the ExLab (interdisciplinary innovation focused) and the Venture Lab (entrepreneurship focused).

FAST was planned and constructed to be flexible for change over time, readily adapting to new equipment, new ways of collaborating and new trends in maker preferences over time.

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