Case Studies

Sheila Liccketto was taught how to be practical and versatile by the time she was a teenager. For instance, before she was allowed to drive, her father made sure she knew how to check the oil and change a tire and the brakes on a car. This approach has informed her work as director of […]

The Indiana Statehouse and State Government Center has had some ups and downs, literally. Seems the machinery that runs the elevators is outdated. Due to digital advancements and service disruptions, the original parts have become increasingly difficult to replace. Scott Lambert, director of Indiana’s building operations, is doing something about that at the various public […]

It’s not like adding a wing to an apartment complex or hotel. So, muses Sean Tracy about the ongoing modernization he oversees at Castle Rock Adventist Hospital in Colorado. Last year, this community hospital run by Centura Health in the town of Castle Rock added 36 beds for post-surgical patients on a shelled out fourth […]

Caring for the environment has long been a passion for Steven Piepgrass, whose first job out of college involved cleaning up Distant Early Warning Line stations and oil and gas sites in the Arctic. During the 1950s, the U.S. military built approximately 30 bases from Alaska across northernmost Canada and into Greenland, with the goal […]

While his career in architecture and design has taken him all the way to the Middle East, Steve Berry’s home remains in a different arid climate: the Valley of the Sun in and around Phoenix.  Now senior vice president of architecture and design for Robson Resort Communities, Berry ensures the company’s portfolio continues to provide […]

Since its founding in 1989 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Vertex Pharmaceuticals has fought serious diseases by understanding their underlying causes and going all-in to discover and develop medicines that address them. As senior director of real estate, Sean McFaul ensures Vertex has the workplaces necessary to research and develop therapies—and to attract researchers. Speaking with Blueprint […]

It’s been an unusual three years for residents of the Cypress Run apartment community in Orlando, Florida. Building by building, they’ve been temporarily moved to furnished units, leaving their furniture and possessions behind for about six weeks. The relocations are needed because contractors have been renovating exteriors of the community’s 31 buildings, including replacing the […]

The new sign atop the gleaming 22-story tower in South San Francisco says it all: SmartLabs. Smart laboratories literally are bustling on the four highest levels where researchers in the life sciences pursue the next therapies or medications. Some of them working for startups, their employers didn’t have much to spend or time to wait […]

Simon Smith was not alone in assuming his company’s shift to remote work because of the COVID-19 pandemic would not be long-term. As the associate director of facilities and operations at Rightpoint, he says he expected the company’s offices to reopen about two months after they closed in March 2020. More than 18 months later, […]

Those adhesive medicated patches and films can be quite the comforter, bringing relief to chronic pain, opioid addiction and Parkinson’s, to name just a few conditions. But while simple in appearance, so-called oral thin films and transdermal delivery systems are quite intricate, each a complex dosage delivery system that requires a sophisticated and robust manufacturing […]