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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The College of New Jersey New STEM Building Ewing, New Jersey
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.
Bryant University Academic Innovation Center (AIC) Smithfield, Rhode Island
Expertise Schools of Engineering
ENGINEERING PROGRAMS SERVED
Central Connecticut State University
Cleveland State University
Colorado State University
Columbia 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
Northwestern University
North Carolina A&T University
Penn State University
Rochester Institute of Technology
Seattle University
Syracuse University
SUNY Polytechnic Institute
SUNY University at Buffalo
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 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
Columbia University Jerome L. Greene Science Center
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
Central Connecticut State University Applied Engineering Hub
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
University of Florida Herbert Wertheim Laboratory for Engineering Excellence
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
NC A&T Harold L. Martin Sr. Engineering Research and Innovation Complex (ERIC)
Northwestern University Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center
UT Martin STEM Building Study
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
Central Connecticut State University Applied Engineering Hub
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
Schools of Engineering Programs Supported.
Space Types
Student Projects
High Bay Space
Makerspaces
Research Labs
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.
Northeastern
Curiosity
Academic Sector Team
John Baxter aia, leed ap Principal / Academic Sector Leader jbaxter@pagethink.com
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
Laura Vargas aia, leed ap bd+c Principal / Senior Project Manager lvargas@pagethink.com
Alissa McFarland aia, leed ap bd+c Principal /Science and Technology Director amcfarland@pagethink.com
Creative Stewardship
Developing the next generation of entrepreneurs
University of Maryland E.A. Fernandez IDEA Factory
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 and collaboration spaces is where cutting edge research and innovation take place. 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.
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
Materials Science and Engineering (MatSE)
Open bench research clusters
Metallurgy, Ceramics, Polymers labs
Energy storage labs
Additive manufacturing labs
Collaboration areas
Undergraduate classrooms
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.
Urban Research Destination
The start of a 17-acre campus for scholars to collide and collaborate
Columbia University The Jerome L. Greene Science Center
New York, New York
Project Size
458,000 Square Feet
Service Provided Architecture / Programming / Planning
Program Features
Cross-disciplinary Engineering
Wellness center
Education lab
Laboratories
Offices and support spaces
Meeting rooms
Collaboration spaces
Outdoor terraces
Davis Brody Bond, a Page company has been working with Columbia University since the 1980s on their historic Morningside campus, as well as on other sites owned by the University. Over the last decade, Davis Brody Bond, a Page company has worked on the development of Columbia’s Manhattanville campus, a new graduate student campus in northern Manhattan. When fully realized, this new 17-acre urban academic environment will include more than 6.8M square feet of space for teaching, research, civic, cultural, recreational and commercial activity. Davis Brody Bond, a Page company served as the Executive Architect for Renzo Piano Design Workshop (RPBW) on the first group of buildings for Columbia University’s new Manhattanville campus.
This is the first building completed as part of the new master plan. The ninestory building is the largest that Columbia has ever built, and the biggest academic science building in New York City. It brings together a constellation of neuroscientists, engineers, statisticians, psychologists and other scholars from across Columbia University and around the world who collaborate on research, teaching and public programming. The 458,000-square-foot building is therefore designed for the kind of social interaction and interdisciplinary thought that is essential for new ideas to thrive. The Center’s design employs a unique laboratory concept consisting of four neighborhoods articulated by two intersecting axes. On the research levels, the North-South axis is dedicated to circulation, while the East-West axis is an active area that includes meeting rooms and break spaces on each floor and a 120-seat lecture space at the top floor. These spaces make up a key feature of the research experience at the Center, encouraging collaboration among the scientists by interspersing circulation, connecting stairs, double-height spaces, and a variety of scales of meeting rooms and other interaction 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.
Enabling ‘Physicianeers’
Where engineering meets medicine
Texas A&M University Engineering Medicine Building Renovation (EnMed)
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
Other-Worldly Opportunities
Providing tools to explore
Virginia Tech Goodwin Hall
Blacksburg, Virginia
Project Size
155,000 Square Feet
Service Provided Programming / Planning / Lab Planning
Program Features
Mechanical, Aerospace, and Chemical Engineering
Research and teaching labs
Terrestrial robotics lab
Extreme environments lab
Imaging and optics labs
Materials characterization labs
Nanofab labs
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.
Accelerating 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
Engineering and applied science
Academic / Government / Industry partnerships
Entrepreneurship
Specialty core labs
Vibration sensitive labs
High bay Rotorcraft lab
Outdoor Rotorcraft cage
Maker and fabrication shops
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.
George Mason University Fuse at Mason Square
Fairfax, Virginia
Project Size
360,500 Square Feet (New Construction + Underground Parking)
Artificial intelligence, data analytics, and cyber security programs
Entrepreneurship
Industry partnerships
Makerspaces and workshops
Flexible classrooms
Collaboration space
Events and conferencing
Retail & public outdoor space
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
Connecting Community
Space for disciplines to collide
University of Oklahoma Gallogly Hall Biomedical Engineering Academic Building
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
Service Provided Architecture / Programming / Planning / Lab Planning / Energy Analysis / Engineering / Interiors
Program Features
Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Industry partnerships
Ag materials & equipment bays
Biochemistry research labs
Fermentation lab
Bioprocess pilot plant
Capstone project studio
Student presentation forum
High bay space
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.
Creating an Engineering Nexus
Turning the heart of campus into a hub for the New Engineer
University of Florida Herbert Wertheim Laboratory for Engineering Excellence
Gainesville, Florida
Project Size
86,000 Square Feet
Service Provided Programming /Planning / Lab Design
Program Features
Cross-disciplinary engineering
Team-based learning spaces
Design labs
Collision spaces for crossdisciplinary collaboration
Biotech labs
Prototyping labs
Global teleconferencing labs
The University of Florida Herbert Wertheim Laboratory for Engineering Excellence (Nexus Lab Project) is a state-of-the-art educational environment to bring together interdisciplinary faculty, undergraduates, graduate students, and industry partners in collision spaces that compel collaboration. Envisioned as the hub of engineering at the University of Florida, the site occupies a prominent location in the heart of campus across from the student union. Positioned along the major pedestrian walk, the building allows the activities within to be displayed. This transparency extends vertically through the building via the central stair. The building is the center for engineering collaboration and inspiration for the next and future generations of engineers.
Facilities include bioengineering, computer science, advanced manufacturing, integrated product prototyping, and maker labs for student projects. Research labs are combined with state-of-the-art teaching labs, classroom, and collaborative telepresence space for global learning.
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
Cross-disciplinary engineering
Computer Science Engineering
Applied Arts & sciences
High bay space
Student project space
Specialty workshops and makerspaces
Flexible research labs
Distance learning classroom
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.
Engineering on Display
Highly flexible, technologically robust
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
Biomedical, Mechanical, and Civil Engineering
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Cross-disciplinary teaching labs
Digital design lab
Metal fabrication workshop
Prototyping lab
Robotics lab
BSL-2 research lab
Student project space
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
Cross-disciplinary
Science and Engineering
Computer technology, AI, and data science
Entrepreneurship
Industry partnerships
Specialty workshops, makerspaces
Research labs
Flexible classrooms
Student commons
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
Trinity University Center for Science and Innovation (CSI)
Service Provided Architecture / Programming / Planning / Design / MEP and Fire Protection
Program Features
General Engineering
Entrepreneurship
Cross-disciplinary applied sciences
Flexible teaching and research labs
Specialty workshops
‘Think-Model-Make’ space
Collaboration spaces
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
Health-science oriented
Collaborative, flexible teaching and research labs
Life sciences research clusters
“Science on display”
Advanced instrumentation and equipment
Team-based learning spaces
Student support spaces
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.
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. Schools
Specialized space for science, tech, engineering and health
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
Multi-disciplinary engineering
High bay robotics aviary
Motion capture lab
Advanced manufacturing lab
Wind and fluids labs
Student project areas
Metal and wood workshops
Prototyping lab
Active learning classrooms
Collaboration spaces
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.
STEM Offerings
Creating a vision for 21st-century engineering that is collaborative, innovative, entrepreneurial, and exciting
University of Buffalo New School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS)
Buffalo, New York
Project Size
108,000 Square Feet
Service Provided Planning / Lab Planning / Programming / Architecture / Building Sciences
Program Features
Program Study Services
Instructional Labs
Research Labs
Engineering Labs
Classrooms
Innovation and Office Spaces
Integration with Campus
Green Infrastructure Design
Workshops and Collaboration Spaces
Page recently completed a programming and concept design phase effort for a new School of Engineering building on the North campus. In keeping with the University’s vision for the growth of STEM offerings, this unique three-story building of 108,000 square feet and $78,473,000 will become a central hub for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), an inviting destination and gateway to the northern expansion of the academic core.
Program elements include a variety of student-focused teaching and discovery spaces. Specific workshops housed in adjacent buildings will be relocated to the new building, freeing up space for additional student collaboration space. The massing and design of the building were envisioned to be solid but efficient, with forms and materials that would fit comfortably into the campus’s existing mid-century modernist design aesthetic. The site design approach is sensitive to the pedestrian experience at the street level while showcasing interior spaces that project the excitement of engineering to the wider campus.
The programming process began with a space requirements list developed in-house by the University. Over three months, we toured existing facilities, conducted workshops with faculty and staff, and learned about UB’s unique programs and aspirations. A detailed report compiled and documented the entire programming and concept design effort and enabled the University and SUCF to approve the proposed design, which our team is now carrying into complete design and documentation services. Per New York State’s aspirational standards, the architectural and building systems design will proactively pursue Net Zero Carbon goals. The building will be durable, efficient, and easy to operate; it will be robustly performative without undue expense for operation and upkeep.
Schools of Engineering
Makerspaces for Everyone
Experiential learning, design thinking and prototyping
Tufts University
Robinson Hall Makerspace and Campus Makerspace Study
FAST (Fabrication, Analysis, Simulation, Testing) facility
3D printer farm
Laser cutter, CNC router, power drill, table saw, miter saw, and many other tools
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.
