GlaxoSmithKline - Facilities Integration

Following the 1995 merger of Glaxo Inc. and Burroughs Wellcome US operations, GlaxoSmithKline (formerly GlaxoWellcome) retained Heery to develop solutions for the integration of the two companies’ facilities, encompassing 6,000 personnel in approximately 3.5 million SF in 47 buildings on three corporate campuses in Research Triangle Park. As a result of preliminary planning for integration, GlaxoSmithKline decided to implement a four-year program to merge all of the staff and facilities of these two major pharmaceutical companies in the United States.

Fitting GlaxoSmithKline’s new combined space needs into the available campuses and facilities required an awareness of each facility’s constraints both in terms of physical shortcomings, existing occupancies and sequencing the work. Heery conducted a comprehensive architectural and engineering systems assessment to define this portion of the master plan further. In addition, Heery developed design guidelines and standards to ensure consistency in the design of new facilities and renovations, which address such things as lab and office space guidelines and finish standards, building utility system redundancy requirements, lab interior air quality and lab casework standards.

In 2001, GlaxoSmithKline retained many of the Heery project team members who successfully planned and implemented the integration of facilities and functions at Research Triangle Park following the 1995 merger of Glaxo and Burroughs Wellcome to provide strategic planning, project support and move planning services in support of the January 2001 merger of GlaxoWellcome and SmithKline Beechum.

Heery also provided architectural and interior design services for 88,000 SF to be occupied by GlaxoSmithKline within the American Tobacco Historic District in downtown Durham, North Carolina. Administrative areas within the space include multiple workstations and offices, conference rooms, break rooms and small interaction areas.The primary purpose of the project was to consolidate GlaxoSmithKline offices located throughout the downtown Durham area. The American Tobacco Historic District is an historic manufacturing district adjacent to the Durham Bulls Minor League Baseball Stadium and the center of a proposed urban revitalization initiative.