Purdue Research Foundation, Polytechnic’s Nova Lab

Purdue Research Foundation called at the end of September with a tenant who needed laboratory space and a date they had to be in it. We turned it over the first week of February.

The renovation delivered 5,000 SF of lab and 1,700 SF of office. The lab side carried the real work: new mechanical air handlers, strobic exhaust fans, medical gas, an emergency generator, and a new hot water heater, all of it specified, ordered, and installed on a schedule with no room to get anything wrong twice.

Design and construction ran together rather than one after the other. Long-lead materials were released as soon as decisions firmed, with some arriving on site a week or two before they were needed. That is how four months becomes possible.