Lab Design News has published the Novartis-Penn Center for Advanced Cellular Therapies in their weekly e-newsletter. Their profile highlights the unique design challenges of this cGMP facility atop of an 8-story medical center.
In order to comply with the FDA’s regulations for cGMP manufacturing environment, the design team utilized a modular clean room system to create a “box within a box” design approach. The modular clean room system allowed the design team the flexibility to mold and shape the clean room manufacturing environment into the boundaries of the high rise envelope.