CDM’s multi-disciplinary teams have successful experience in planning and designing high-tech administrative, laboratory, and cleanroom facilities in university, medical, pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical, microelectronics, and nanotechnology settings. In every project, our research and development specialists emphasize a thoughtful and comprehensive approach that fully integrates the design of every building with its broader context—across a campus or a facility—with its interior purpose and function, and with the needs of its users, whether researchers, students, professors, or medical professionals. This holistic integration of design and other disciplines provides the best total solution for our clients.
Some of our state-of-the-art designs have encompassed elements as diverse as family, occupational, and community applied research; environmental health; epidemiology and biostatistics; pharmaceutical research, testing, and manufacture; and genetics. Each of these facilities had unique and sensitive design requirements for air distribution and control, vibration isolation, and equipment accommodation. CDM’s expertise in both design and system analysis addresses these unique environments while supporting life safety, containment, facility maintainability, and worker and community protection with the right combination of established and newer technologies. In fact, our basis of design for life safety systems established for a chemistry laboratory renovation has now been adopted as the standard at campuses across the United States. We are also adept at helping our clients meet unique, facility-specific goals, such as providing innovative facilities that draw interest and investment from the private sector, attract and maintain world class academic researchers, and provide virtual classroom capabilities to create exciting learning and research environments.