Designs that advance new discoveriesScience & Technology

offices across Stantec with a focus on Science & Technology design.

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Facilities where new discoveries happen are designed from the inside out. It’s through collaboration and the exchange of ideas that science and technology advances enhance people’s lives on a daily basis.

Science & Technology

Whether it’s an academic research or instructional laboratory, research and development facility, biomedical laboratory, or bio/pharmaceutical manufacturing facility, we’re helping our clients improve the quality of life in our communities.

Science is a complex business and designing facilities that adapt to ever-evolving technologies presents unique challenges. Flexibility to adapt to changing standards and needs, sustainable building design, and high-volume production are some of the numerous factors to be considered. We understand those complexities and work with owners, researchers, instructors, and production managers to build facilities that inspire creative thinking and collaboration, as well as efficient processes.

From instruction to research, to production, we are designing a promising future.

I cannot think of another building type with which I’d want to be associated knowing that the laboratories we program, plan, and design may ultimately contribute to the discovery of something that will significantly and positively impact our lives.” —Michael Reagan, AIA

Inventive Design. Quality Medicine. Healthier Communities.In the competitive marketplace of modern manufacturing and research and development, the time required to identify, develop, and manufacture innovative and original technologies, products, and processes is critical. Every second impacts production volume, customer satisfaction, and the bottom line.

We design flexible facilities and processes that respond easily to changing requirements, maximize the number of innovations produced, and minimize the time and costs to develop them. Our designs seamlessly integrate research

with development enabling the coordination of activities between these two critical steps in the R&D process.

We listen and we work with you. Throughout the planning and design process we focus on the unique aspects of your corporate culture to ensure that our design embodies those values.

Whether it’s a renovation or upgrade, plant expansion or greenfield facility, research laboratory or corporate building, we will partner with you to find smart, inventive, and sustainable solutions.

Inventive Design. Quality Medicine. Healthier Communities.

My work in planning and engineering, whether it’s a research facility, biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility, or high-tech incubator, ultimately improves the quality of life for millions and, in many cases, helps saves lives. I see this as an incredible privilege and responsibility.” —Brian Larson, PE

Our design will help manufacture 50 million units of topical medicine. It will also keep our communities free of infection and disease.

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The pace of discovery is swift

Process. Equipment. Technology. Systems. All must integrate smoothly and efficiently. A large part of planning, designing, and engineering a pharmaceutical or biotechnology facility is driven by the individual process and equipment requirements.

How do we know this? Through our years of experience working with all size life science companies involved in the discovery, research and development, and commercial- scale manufacturing of pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and medical device products.

Our areas of expertise include active pharmaceutical ingredients (API), medical devices, oral solid dosage (OSD), parenterals, and vaccines/biotechnology.

Pharmaceuticals >> Research and Development >> Pilot Plants >> Clinical-Phase Manufacturing >> Full-Scale Manufacturing >> Chemicals >> Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients >> Oral Solid Dosage >> Sterile Manufacturing >> Medical Devices >> Oral Liquids and Aerosols >> Packaging and Warehousing >> Creams and Lotions >> Distribution Centers >> Transdermal Drug Delivery >> Consumer Healthcare >> Nutraceuticals

Biotechnology >> Biological Laboratories >> Clinical and Pilot Plants >> Full-Scale Manufacturing >> Vaccines >> Parenterals >> Cell Culture >> Fermentation >> Monoclonal Antibodies >> Plasma Processing

CorporateHow do you respond to advancements in science and new drug and compound discoveries?

We Design Facilities From the Inside Out.

We design facilities from the inside out

Our specialists in Oral Solid Dose equipment are keeping our communities healthy by helping this manufacturer produce 75 million tablets a year.

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Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) As demand for high-quality API and chemicals increases, we can help you achieve higher levels of compliance in process development and manufacturing. Fully aware of the demand for increasingly pure and potent actives, excipients, and intermediates used in today’s pharmaceutical and bio-products, we support all phases of drug and chemical development from bench-top through to high-volume production.

Handling of bio/pharmaceutical chemicals requires current knowledge of regulatory restrictions, modern equipment capabilities, and employee and equipment safety procedures. Our commitment to ongoing education, coupled with on-site staff with chemical processing experience, ensures that your product and employees will be protected.

Oral Solid Dosage (OSD) We also specialize in the facility, process, equipment requirements, and global regulatory issues associated with the research, development, and manufacturing of tablets, capsules, and other solid-dose forms. A large part of any OSD facility is driven by the individual process and equipment requirements. To appropriately design, engineer, build, renovate, or configure a modern OSD facility, it is best to work in the context of “process-out”, as opposed to “facility in”. Whether you’re challenged with modern OSD facility and process design; facility/process and equipment configurations; critical/non-critical utilities, HVAC, and process equipment; commissioning, qualification, and compliance; isolation and containment design and engineering; process analytical technology; or sustainability and energy efficiency, we speak your language.

I am continually energized by the challenges of my work, particularly given that no two projects are the same. Unique problems require creative solutions in this industry where technology is rapidly changing and where tight schedules are the norm due to patent limitations.” —Tony Rao, PE

I am rewarded every day by the knowledge that our designs of pharmaceutical manufacturing plants help bring new life-saving medicines into commercial production, and benefit people around the world.”

—Mark Canter

Medical Device Products Cognizant of the ongoing changes in medical technology development and regulatory policy, our integrated team of engineers and architects designs and qualifies specialized processes, facilities, and systems.

We partner with the medical community to provide support for technologies such as drug deliveries, implants, analytical equipment, surgical sutures, in vitro reagents, and other similar devices, which are useful for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes.

Parenterals We work with companies of all sizes that are involved in the development, formulation, commercial-scale manufacturing, and filling of sterile drug products. These manufactured products, typically in injectable liquid-dose form, must comply with sterile regulations during all phases of production and packaging.

Our designs for parenteral facilities and processes address issues associated with the manufacturing of injectable pharmaceuticals as well as the controlled environment required to protect the product and employee.

Vaccines & Biotechnology Are you faced with issues that are critical to improving efficiencies such as proper equipment selection, facility layout, space planning, infrastructure, security, equipment, and regulatory requirements? We understand the business of finished biological and vaccine products, along with associated filling, packaging, and distribution activity. It’s what we do. We design facilities and process systems that fully meet regulatory requirements and provides efficient operations and maintenance.

Intelligent designs progress with new discoveries

The medical community is well-equipped with dosage ready syringes due to our process engineers who are helping this pharmaceutical manufacturer fill 600 syringes per minute.

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Stimulating environments for collaborative discovery

laboratories, including more than 80 research/teaching labs.

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Creativity and hard work are two elements that contribute to a successful project. Business, joy, and longevity would invariably result from it.” —Andrés Sánchez, PE

Public institutions are focused on teaching and intellectual product research. They vary tremendously from their private sector and government counterparts, whose focus is more on security and commercial product delivery.

We know that product research and development is highly competitive. We can help you succeed in identifying, developing, and manufacturing your product so that you can get it out to market in a time-efficient and cost effective manner.

Research & DevelopmentTogether, we can create facilities and processes that are adaptable to future challenges, contribute to the control of disease, promote medical advancement, and develop emerging science and technologies for the good of our communities.

Vivariums Housing for animals, plants, and fish is dependent on the species and the chosen facility’s ability to promote health, comfort, and safety for the living organism. Our designs consider size, environmental demand, containment, protection, and well-being for growth or production.

Vivariums can range from large-animal accommodation in barns, to small-animal microenvironments, with bio/containment considerations for situations involving biological risk group agents. Marine species require tanks with controlled fresh or salt water environments and plants require greenhouses or growth chambers with environmental controls. These also consider biological risk group hazards for the protection of the species, worker, and the outside community. We work with you to determine the design requirements of the vivarium facility and system, in conjunction with regulatory agencies and authority standards.

Biological High Containment Classification of organisms according to risk group has traditionally been used to categorize the relative hazard of infectious organisms. Risk Group 3 is considered high individual risk and Risk Group 4 is high risk to both the individual and the community.

Infectious agents can include bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites. Some pathogens infect humans, others are unique to livestock or poultry and some are zoonotic agents capable of causing disease in both humans and animals. Diseases, such as Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, have the potential to mutate and crossover to infect humans. Emerging diseases, the ones not yet identified or developed in an infectious form, present a high risk in dealing with the unknown.

We design specialized containment facilities that are required when working with highly infectious agents. This is for the protection of the worker, environment, and community. Research work with non-indigenous pathogens, which are agents not present in the local environment, requires special consideration to maintain the facility containment barrier and avoid pathogen migration to susceptible environments with no developed immunity.

Truly great design is a product of endless passion and intense commitment, with success measured in outcome and not in hours.” —David Linamen, PE, CEM, LEED® AP

Translating new discoveries quickly into unique and effective treatment

vehicles with ceramics clean-air products were developed in research labs we designed.

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Diagnostic Diagnostic labs often provide a support function for associated clinical and medical procedures. These facilities and systems are part of a larger complex, or may be secondary, remote, stand-alone facilities within the public healthcare system. Work with human and animal specimens that may be infectious requires that they all be handled as biohazard material and that techniques and equipment be applied to control aerosols, spills, or any other inadvertent release of samples and reagents.

Our experience covers medical, as well as diagnostic, pathology, including provincial T.B. labs that work with a walk-in population. Diagnostic services are also provided by food and drug safety labs under federal regulatory jurisdiction. Labs for the agricultural sector are designed for facilities that work with and identify animal pathogens, through necropsy of animals, birds, and fish.

Research and Development / Quality Assurance Bringing significant experience programming, planning, and designing for the physical life sciences, our integrated team of architects and engineers continue to collaborate with some of the most advanced high-technology research and development manufacturers. Whether the lab is operated in an academic, industrial, or manufacturing environment, we drive the design direction, based on the function and process of the laboratory when designing the facility.

Research facilities must incorporate flexibility into the building and systems. With consideration to environment, safety, and energy conservation, we ensure the facility and systems design adapts to frequently changing programs. Alternatively, labs for industry can be situated in hazardous locations. They can either be required for the purpose of quality control or for the development of innovative processes and products. Whether it’s biochemistry, ceramics, wafer fabrication, electronics, photonics, polymer, or a myriad of other science facilities, our designs of these laboratories are helping to advance new discoveries.

Cleanrooms The design of clean spaces or cleanrooms involves much more than traditional temperature and humidity control. Other factors include control of particle, microbial, electrostatic discharge, molecular, and gaseous contamination.

Our experience and capabilities in cleanroom design ranges from positive pressure barrier facilities for classified biological processes to clean spaces in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, microelectronics, semiconductors, and aerospace industries.

We develop facilities and systems in response to the process demands and include aseptic processing areas, non-aseptic products, and semi-conductor manufacturing. Cleanroom standards are defined by ISO 14644-1 classification as well as your standards for the production facility.

Semi-Conductor We provide you with the tools and insights necessary for tactical, safe, and strategic planning. Through collaboration, we can determine the potential for improved manufacturing efficiencies using emerging technologies, as well as examine potential threats to the existing manufacturing infrastructure.

We integrate your facility around the process. Providing specialty clean environments and air emission control systems are fundamental to these facility types.

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I have the great privilege of working with brilliant people —visionaries and innovators—who are creating solutions to serious world challenges, while inspiring and mentoring the next generation to take on the charge. Developing physical environments that help them succeed in their work is what gets me up in the morning.” —Jill Swensen, AIA, NCARB, LEED® AP

Design with community in mind

We’re active members of the communities we serve. That’s why at Stantec, we always design with community in mind.

We collaborate across disciplines and industries to bring buildings, energy and resource, and infrastructure projects to life. Our work—professional consulting in planning, engineering, architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, surveying, environmental sciences, project management, and project economics—begins at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships.

Since 1954, our local strength, knowledge, and relationships, coupled with our world-class expertise, have allowed us to go anywhere to meet our clients’ needs in more creative and personalized ways. With a long-term commitment to the people and places we serve, Stantec has the unique ability to connect to projects on a personal level and advance the quality of life in communities across the globe. Stantec trades on the TSX and the NYSE under the symbol STN.