The project: Full-scale seismic retrofit, architectural, and MEP renovation of 651 Gateway, an existing 17-story, steel-framed office building into a life science laboratory. The goals: Improve seismic performance while maintaining the building’s current square footage and flexibility of the floor plate and also provide a structural design that accommodates the architectural and MEP upgrades, stiffening
Project Market: Science and Technology
Pharmaceutical Distribution Center
IMEG provided structural, mechanical, and plumbing design, along with industrial architectural services, for the renovation of a 60,000-sf building in Decatur, Alabama, into a pharmaceutical distribution center, re-arranging the existing layout to a new layout. A new air-handler was provided for the new clean rooms to allow continued use of the existing clean rooms during
Workflow Assessment
The Antea Group is a large environmental services firm with offices across the US. The firm had been using network-based concurrent desktop licenses with file geodatabases and as the use of GIS expanded in the organization, the stability and speed of the setup became an issue. IMEG was asked to perform a workflow assessment on
New Lab and Office Building
3151 Market Street is a $250 million, 494,000-sf Class A multi-tenant commercial building in West Philadelphia that will offer office and laboratory space along with common and retail spaces. IMEG provided plumbing and fire protection engineering design services, including lab-ready systems, for full core facilities on tenant floors and shell space to be leased. System
New Research and Development Facility
IMEG provided engineering design for a confidential pharmaceutical company’s new research and development facility at Iowa State University Research Park. The 52,000-sf facility features an open concept designed for collaboration and interaction of up to 100 scientists conducting research in swine, cattle, equine, canine, and feline. The first floor is comprised of almost 30,000-sf of
Vision Research Center Build-out
IMEG provided mechanical, electrical, plumbing, technology and civil engineering services for a 55,188-sf remodel of shelled spaces in the former Avery Dennison Corp. headquarters for Doheny Eye Institute, a nonprofit organization affiliated with the UCLA Stein Eye Institute. The Doheny Eye Center occupies the ground level, second, and third floors of the 123,000-sf building, and
Laboratory Fit-out
With a goal of providing cutting-edge space for interdisciplinary research, the Life Sciences Laboratory II building on the University of Massachusetts, Amherst campus features both laboratory and laboratory support space that includes a growth chamber laboratory, a freezer farm laboratory, an FTMS laboratory, and a server room. Working in the 98,000-sf South Wing, IMEG provided
Energy Sciences Building & Energy Module
IMEG served as Commissioning Authority from Preliminary Design through occupancy for a new Department of Energy (DoE) testing and research laboratory. IMEG provided peer reviews at the Preliminary and Final Design stages and managed monthly conference calls to interact with design MEP engineers responsible for the initial 160,000 SQFT building. IMEG drove significant changes to
Particle Accelerator Facility
IMEG is providing mechanical, electrical, and technology design and engineering services for a new 122,000-sf particle accelerator facility on the Fermilab campus in Batavia, IL. The project includes a linear accelerator, cryogenics building, and central plant and will be multi-phased with several bid packages. Equipment will need to be rated for electromagnetic radiation from the
Infrastructure Upgrade
Leading the project as the Prime Consultant, IMEG was contracted to support the Linac Coherent Light Source – II project (LCLS-II) at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The LCLS-II project sought to expand the capabilities and capacities of the campus’ existing LCLS facility, which was originally developed with future expansion potential. LCLS-II will construct a 4