Research & Development
Breaking ground for your groundbreaking research
Understanding
As technology advances at an ever-increasing rate, so do the needs of your facility to stay on the cutting edge. Our comprehensive understanding of R&D systems and their costs lays the foundation for a reliable, time-sensitive build with room for future adaptations—because change is coming, and you want to be prepared when it arrives.
Photo: Confidential Life Sciences Client
Understanding
As technology advances at an ever-increasing rate, so do the needs of your facility to stay on the cutting edge. Our comprehensive understanding of R&D systems and their costs lays the foundation for a reliable, time-sensitive build with room for future adaptations—because change is coming, and you want to be prepared when it arrives.
Photo: Confidential Life Sciences Client
Commitment
Whether you need a clean room, or a heavy chemical R&D environment, DPR has the knowledge and experience to apply advanced ventilation and mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) systems to keep your scientists and facility safe and your building up to code. Our builders are experts in designing and constructing R&D centers with gas and chemical delivery systems.
No matter where your work falls on the scientific spectrum, the DPR team is committed to helping you turn hypotheses into breakthroughs.
Photo: Penn State University Agricultural and Bio-Engineering Building Renewal
Commitment
Whether you need a clean room, or a heavy chemical R&D environment, DPR has the knowledge and experience to apply advanced ventilation and mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) systems to keep your scientists and facility safe and your building up to code. Our builders are experts in designing and constructing R&D centers with gas and chemical delivery systems.
No matter where your work falls on the scientific spectrum, the DPR team is committed to helping you turn hypotheses into breakthroughs.
Photo: Penn State University Agricultural and Bio-Engineering Building Renewal
By the Numbers
Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation
2020 Commercial Real Estate Awards, Best Medical Project
University of Southern California Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience
2019 Los Angeles Business Journal Commercial Real Estate Awards, Best Medical Project
San Diego County Sheriff's Department Crime Laboratory
2019 ENR California, Award of Merit South for Green Project
Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation
2020 Commercial Real Estate Awards, Best Medical Project
University of Southern California Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience
2019 Los Angeles Business Journal Commercial Real Estate Awards, Best Medical Project
San Diego County Sheriff's Department Crime Laboratory
2019 ENR California, Award of Merit South for Green Project
Our Experience
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Our specialized laboratory construction expertise provides customers with a seasoned team to plan, coordinate, build and validate projects of all sizes and complexities.
Eli Lilly Tenant Improvement
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To treat the most dangerous infectious diseases, researchers need highly specialized workspaces. DPR brings the same rigorous and meticulous planning to constructing these facilities as the scientists who work in them.
Georgia State University Petit Science Center BSL-3 Lab Renovation
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DPR leads the industry in cleanroom expertise supporting projects ranging from Cell and Gene Therapy single-use clinical trial space built under tight capital constraints to large bulk fermentation facilities for monoclonal antibodies. Our extensive database of stick-built and modular cleanroom projects can help inform which application is best for your project without the need for upfront commitments.
Illumina Project Fire Turtle
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University teaching labs are educating the next generation of scientists, engineers, and innovators. Our skilled teams deliver these facilities on time and on budget to enable your students to get to work.
Penn State Agricultural and Bio-Engineering Building Renewal
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As the drive for innovation remains paramount for the Life Sciences industry, one of the essential steps in advancing your company’s R&D capabilities – the procurement of a facility’s R&D equipment – is also one of the most complex. Our in-house experts will execute the buyout and expediting services of this equipment so that you can focus on solving critical problems through new ideas. DPR’s investment in developing a supply chain program with professionals who bring broad and varied expertise provides best-in-class solutions to deploy and manage the entire procurement process.
Photo: ATCC BSL3 Laboratory Renovation
Dennis
Kirkpatrick
Life Sciences Core Market Co-Leader
Supporting life sciences customers in their work to help change people’s lives for the better is Dennis Kirkpatrick’s primary focus as Co-Leader for DPR’s Life Sciences Core Market. With experience in delivering best-in-class outcomes for biotechnology…
Mike
Marston
Life Sciences Core Market Co-Leader
Mike Marston’s construction career began when he was offered his first internship following a summer spent roofing houses. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in Civil Engineering & Engineering and Public Policy, Mike joined DPR in…
Greg
Fraikor
Higher Education Core Market Leader
With a successful track record in a diverse range of market sectors including federal design-build construction, higher education, government R&D, mission critical and life sciences, Greg Fraikor brings a seasoned perspective and experience to his work.…