Recent Projects
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This project is a restoration of two conjoined structures that are on the National Register of Historic Places - one structure was designed by Frank Furness and the second by Lindley Johnson both built in the early 1890’s. They were united in 1917 to house the Princeton Club of Philadelphia, replete with temporary housing and two squash courts.
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In association with the Canadian aluminum producer, Alcan, and the construction manager Hooker Cockram from Sydney, Australia, JWA provided planning and schematic design services for this 400,000 sf aluminum cable facility in Tianjin, China. Construction documents were produced by a local institute in China.
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The 6,000 sf Klehr Center was built within one of Lancaster’s historic residential neighborhoods, and its design fits well into the historic vocabulary of the area. The building will be used for religious, social and academic purposes. It has received the Associated Building Contractors Central Pennsylvania Chapter’s First Place Award of Excellence for 2009.
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This 289,000 sf project was constructed for developing and manufacturing new pharmaceutical products. It includes an existing building renovation for manufacturing, packaging and laboratories (123,000 sf), a Swedish-built modular manufacturing facility (72,000 sf), and an office building (94,000 sf). All future drugs for the company will pass through this facility during clinical trials.
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This small (3,600 sf) project was designed for AZ’s North American Headquarters site in Wilmington, DE as a reception center for on-site contractors. It has achieved LEED Gold Certification in part through the use of a concrete trombe wall and a 10 kW photovoltaic array on the roof.
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Slated for opening in the Fall of 2009, the 15,000 sf Center will provide social, academic and religious facilities as well as the only kosher dining on Temple’s campus.
News
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Spartan Bowling Event
February 24, 2010
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 Jacobs/Wyper Architects participated in the Spartan Smackdown Marketing Event. The bowling team, comically referred to as ‘Minds in the Gutter,’ consisted of John Cox, Christine Hofnagel, Medha Rege-Bam, Katie Svigals, & Danielle Vassalotti Rebori.Christine, a previously certified bowling coach, had an outstanding performance that lead the team to victory.
It was a great event & we look forward to defending our title next year. We especially would like to thank Spartan Surfaces for the wonderful evening.
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Summer 2009
June 18, 2009
As we look out in the midst of our current economic crisis, we are adjusting to a changed landscape. Many former and prospective clients have curtailed capital spending by postponing or canceling projects altogether. We see this in all sectors of the economy with which we are involved – university and corporate sectors particularly. We have adjusted by pursing work in related areas, such as (1) in pharmaceutical and chemical manufacturing, where the connection between capital investment and enhanced revenues is more direct than with other types of corporate facilities, and (2) in mission critical facilities, particularly in the public sector where we expect the investment to be significant in the next several years.
We are able to move sideways by virtue of having a very technically competent in-house staff and long-standing relationships with superb external engineering firms. You will see under Recent Projects a number of interesting pharmaceutical and chemical manufacturing projects that are currently underway. One of these, for the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Medicine, involves a new cyclotron installation and an associated GMP drug manufacturing facility where precursor drugs are synthesized with radionuclides to create injectible tracer drugs.
Our move to mission critical facilities – emergency command centers, 911 call centers, data centers – has been facilitated by the addition of Tim Lisle to our partner ranks. We have known and respected Tim for 30 years, and he brings a national reputation as a great facility planner and designer in this important area.
Another staff addition is Rob Petito who is returning to Jacobs/Wyper after a 20-year hiatus. Rob left a long time ago to pursue his interest in historic restoration and adaptive reuse of older buildings. In the intervening years he has worked for John Milner Associates in Philadelphia, Mesick Cohen Waite Architects in Albany, NY, and for the last several years he has been a principle of John G. Waite Associates, Architects in Albany. Rob will strengthen and expand our restoration expertise and our historical portfolio.
While these project types are currently underpinning the operation the office, we do have other work underway including the Edward H. Rosen Center for Jewish Life at Temple University, labs for stem cell research at University of Pennsylvania and fluid dynamics at Princeton. We are also restorating two buildings in downtown Philadelphia that are on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Klehr Center for Jewish Life at Franklin and Marshall College is receiving the First Place Award of Excellence from the Associated Builders and Contractors of Central Pennsylvania this year.
RECENT AND CURRENT PROJECTS
- Schering-Plough Drug Development Campus
- Temple University – 99 a new student center
- Franklin and Marshall College – new center for Jewish life
- Tiger Development – restoration of two buildings on the National Register (one by Frank Furness)
- GlaxoSmithKline – departmental relocations as the company consolidates
- Schering-Plough – $80 million new drug development campus including
- Manufacturing and 100,000 sf office
- Voltaix – $14 million new headquarters and high hazard chemical manufacturing and storage facility
- Becton Dickenson – $13 million manufacturing facility
- Bayer – $13 million manufacturing renovation
- CEVA – new $14 million vaccine facility
- University of Pennsylvania – a new 10,000 sf regenerative medicine lab and a new
- Underground cyclotron facility for the Medical School
- Princeton University - new fluid dynamicslab
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AstraZeneca
March 20, 2009
The AstraZeneca Dining Facility Project that Jacobs/Wyper completed last year recently has won an award of Citation (recognizes projects of notable accomplishment) from the Delaware Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. The 16,000 sf facility at AZ’s Newark research and manufacturing facility. -
Merck
March 20, 2009
Recently in the news has been the approval of Merck’s HPV vaccine for cervical cancer. Two years ago Jacobs/Wyper completed a $12 million vaccine research lab for the company in Wayne, PA that was built to facilitate the development of this product.