Genzyme celebrated the topping-off of its new 177,000-sf laboratory and administrative facility in Framingham, Mass., in April 2006. The state-of-the-art building, designed by ARC/Architectural Resources Cambridge with construction management by Bovis Lend Lease, will consolidate Genzyme scientists from a number of different locations when it opens in the third quarter of 2007.
Collaboration, interaction, and teamwork plus lab flexibility are promoted in the new facility design by locating a continuous band of lab bench space adjacent to the central support facilities. A six-story atrium offers casual meeting and lounge space. Genzyme is seeking LEED certification for the building, which includes such "green" features as a sophisticated heating and cooling system, high-efficiency fume hoods, low-flow water fixtures, and landscaping with drought-tolerant native species.
The project also includes a separate 27,300-sf central utilities plant to supply the new Science Building, as well as existing research, manufacturing, and development buildings on the Framingham campus.
