JM Coull to expand and renovate PerkinElmer site

JM Coull is renovating and expanding two facilities for PerkinElmer, a technology leader dedicated to improving human and environmental health, as part of the development of the company's new Personalized Health Innovation Center of Excellence. The center will focus on accelerating scientific innovation to help researchers who are working to eradicate disease and extend the quality and longevity of life. Working with Gorman Richardson Lewis Architects, JM Coull will transform an existing first floor into three new laboratories. The 16,000 s/f space will house chemical, biochemical and vivarium laboratories. The project also includes a two-story office addition. The 40,000 s/f building will provide the company with additional office space, conference and training rooms, a dining hall and fitness and locker rooms. The office addition is projected to be completed this summer. Across the street from the office building addition, JM Coull will add 15,000 s/f to the south side of an existing single story, high bay PerkinElmer warehouse. The existing warehouse will be converted into offices and light manufacturing space. JM Coull recently completed renovations for a suite of three cleanrooms plus a clean gowning room to accommodate the manufacturing of microfluidic cells, a process currently performed by PerkinElmer in the silicon valley of California. JM Coull has previously managed renovations and additions to two of the company's facilities. JM Coull is a construction management and design-build firm specializing in new construction and renovations for the life sciences industry. The firm uses an integrated approach to project management and focuses attention on the early phases of a project, using its proprietary StartSmart process, to ensure overall success. The company works throughout New England from its offices in Maynard, Mass., and Shelton, Conn.