Insights Category: Events

ISPE Facility of the Year Award Winners

Since TRIA’s foundation eight years ago, we have had the privilege of partnering with some of the biggest names in the pharmaceutical industry, designing innovative state-of-the-art facilities. Our research-based process  ensures that we provide the right design solution that can help any company’s mission thrive. The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) has granted three Facility of the Year awards to TRIA designed facilities. Below we have highlighted these projects:

Moderna Therapeutics

Moderna Therapeutics

This facility was awarded the ISPE 2019 Facility of the Future Category Award

TRIA and DPS worked as partners on this LEED Gold project. DPS provided full architectural and engineering design for the Norwood facility as well as construction management oversight, commissioning, qualification and validation and procurement services. TRIA designed clinical labs, offices, employee facilities, and a conference center. The facility provides the capacity to develop materials for pre-clinical toxicology studies, as well as Phase 1 and Phase 2 clinical development programs. It also has the capability to support new medicines enabled by Moderna’s mRNA platform.

ElevateBio

Elevate Bio

This facility was awarded the ISPE 2021 Operational Excellence Category Award

TRIA provided architecture and design services for the interior fit-out of a raw warehouse space into a state-of-the art cGMP development and manufacturing facility for novel therapeutic technologies. Designed to feel like a “basecamp” – a physical foundation point for the incremental climb in the company’s growth, the client’s new facility features a collaborative open plan office and amenities that promote interaction and provide flexible production suites for GMP manufacturing, laboratories, and a range of supporting utility and warehouse areas. The facility was constructed to produce viral vector, cell therapy, gene therapy, and regenerative medicine for clinical purposes.

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CRISPR Therapeutics

CRISPR Therapeutics

This facility was awarded the ISPE 2022 Innovation Category Award 

TRIA worked closely with the CRISPR to set the objectives of designing with flexibility and scale in mind. Our team approached the project with our proven process of visioning, programming/planning, design and execution.

Using group visioning sessions, executive workshops and focus groups, TRIA identified the client spatial and aesthetic needs and gained an understanding of the company culture. Like every lab we design, we used tools developed by TRIA to define the quantitative requirements for the project, which were developed and documented during the programming/planning process.

Efficient and unique, the open plan office and amenity spaces are designed to promote interaction and collaboration. The design embraced the abundant natural light and embraced the exposed steel structure of the building. Glass walls were incorporated throughout to provide transparency, natural light and a connection between the office and manufacturing space.

On September 20th ISPE will be hosting their annual product show, a one-day premiere biopharmaceutical show with some of the leading names in the industry. TRIA will be at booth W66, stop by to learn more about our ISPE Award Winning Designs.

TRIA Helping Unite Lab Operations & Facilities Management Specialists at the Lab Facilities Summit

Date

February 6, 2023

Jon Romig, Senior Associate & Senior Lab Planner

TRIA is proud to be partnering with the Lab Facilities Summit on March 23, 2023 in Boston.

Ever changing regulations, aggressive sustainability goals, limited space and budget, complex stakeholder groups, facilities management and digital transformation are just some of the challenges faced by the Life Sciences industry in today’s environment.

These factors are forcing laboratory owners, users, and managers to focus on long term vision and change the way they design, plan, build, and retrofit buildings to ensure lab facilities are future-proof and occupant centric.

However, in such a complex environment, with multiple internal and external stakeholders, all with competing priorities, balancing vision, resources, infrastructure, and technology is critical.

To help these life science and biopharma organizations overcome their challenges, TRIA will be exhibiting their innovative solutions and providing insights to attendees and expert speakers to aid them in creating lab facilities of the future.

Jonathon Romig, Senior Associate, Senior Lab Planner, will be featured as a key expert speaker during his roundtable on ‘Utilizing Technology for Right Sizing, Planning, and Maintaining Operations in Lab Facilities’ alongside heads of lab operations and facilities management at the event.

TRIA’s booth will also provide a valuable opportunity for attendees to see how the organization’s architecture and design solutions can solve their challenges.

Other speakers from leading operators sharing their insights include:

  • Kimberly Dougherty, Sr Director, Facilities & Operations, Atalanta Therapeutics
  • Partha Krishnan, Deputy Director, Health Safety and Environment (HSE), Sanofi
  • Demet Aybar, Director of Facilities, Lab Ops and EHS, Strand Therapeutics
  • Jake Haworth, Associate Director of Operations, Moderna
  • Krisha Panchalingam, Senior Manager Lab Operations, Abata Therapeutics
  • Anthony Navarro, Head of Facilities & Lab Operations, Evelo Biosciences
  • Divya Krishnamurthy, Director, R&D Ops and Risk Management, Lyndra Therapeutics

Join TRIA at the Lab Facilities Summit to hear best practice strategies to plan, design, and manage future-proofed, occupant-centric, agile and sustainable lab facilities.

Find out more and register using our 15% discount code PARTNER15  click here.

Tour ElevateBio’s BaseCamp Facility

Date

April 15, 2022

ElevateBio’s Waltham BaseCamp facility

Join ElevateBio and ISPE for an evening of facility tours and panel discussions with industry experts. Tour the award winning facility designed by TRIA and learn more about site selection, design, construction and the challenges of achieving operational readiness and delivering life-saving therapies.

Learn about the perspectives and strategies of bringing a new multi-modal facility on-line from Mike Paglia, COO, ElevateBio BaseCamp; new process technologies, throughput modelling and designing for flexibility from Emily Heffernan, US Director, New Process Technology, DPS Group; and the challenges that abound with site selection and leveraging local and state incentive programs from Bob Coughlin, Managing Director, JLL.

Event Details

Wednesday, June 8, 2022
5:00PM – 7:30PM
ElevateBio BaseCamp
200 Smith Street, Waltham, MA 02451

For more information and to register for the event click here

ElevateBio Basecamp 

First-of-its-kind cell and gene therapy manufacturing facility recognized for operational excellence.

TRIA provided architecture and design services for the interior fit-out of a raw warehouse space into a state-of-the art cGMP development and manufacturing facility for novel therapeutic technologies. Designed to feel like a “basecamp” – a physical foundation point for the incremental climb in the company’s growth, the client’s new facility features a collaborative open plan office and amenities that promote interaction, and provide flexible production suites for GMP manufacturing, laboratories, and a range of supporting utility and warehouse areas. The facility produces viral vector, cell therapy, gene therapy, and regenerative medicine for clinical purposes.

About TRIA

TRIA is a full-service architecture firm that values client relationships above all. The firm’s principal-driven approach puts our leadership team at the table with client decision-makers, working together to envision success, solve problems and deliver exceptional results. Our lab design and corporate interiors teams strive to learn every client’s unique DNA, and by doing so, we create efficient and energizing spaces that reflect a company’s culture and foster innovation. At TRIA, we design spaces that enable business success and advance new discoveries – in the lab, around the office, and beyond. Visit us on the web at https://tria.design and connect with us on LinkedIn.