CENTRIA’s high performance, aesthetically-pleasing, sustainable products were used extensively for Merck Inc.’s Global Clinical Supplies Manufacturing, Packaging and Warehouse Expansion project, which recently won the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering’s (ISPE) 2011 Facility of the Year Award.
“CENTRIA’s products played a key role in helping us successfully execute our hybrid design approach,” says Eric Bohn, Principal, Jacobs/Wyper Architects, LLP, the design firm responsible for the project. “This project included three radically different buildings-an existing decommissioned warehouse that was renovated for improved clinical manufacturing and development, a new three-floor operations support facility, and a modular pilot plant for primary manufacturing operations. We needed lightweight products that could be easily installed on varied substrates and that would aesthetically unify these buildings.”
The ISPE Facility of the Year Award recognizes state-of-the-art pharmaceutical manufacturing projects that utilize innovative technologies to enhance the delivery quality of a project and reduce the cost of producing high-quality medicines. Now in its seventh year, ISPE has received award submissions from more than 25 different countries and territories, marking its competitive international nature.
