Pan-Pacific Plumbing & Mechanical has played a part in the construction of some of the most complex and advanced scientific research and laboratories in California. Our success and repeat business in this industry can be attributed to our excellent and knowledgeable staff.
Just north of Malibu and nestled in the Santa Monica Mountains, the city of Thousand Oaks is the home of Amgen’s global headquarters. The Thousand Oaks campus has a footprint of approximately 194 acres, 45 buildings and 4 million square feet of office space, corporate and senior leadership, research and development operations and manufacturing together with ample landscaped outdoor space.
Pan-Pacific is proud to have been on the team during the construction of various FDA licensed and validated facilities, laboratories/research/QAQC buildings and support buildings throughout the Amgen campus.
Through our long-standing relationship with Amgen, Pan-Pacific was called upon to assist with problem solving on many difficult projects.
Contractor: Amgen
Year of Completion: 1994
In the early 1990s, Amgen recognized that their sales were limited due to a lack of flexibility in their drug delivery methods. The requirement to expand gave rise to the need for Building 20. Building 20 provided two fill suites for creating deliverable methods of their drugs turning the raw product into multiple packageable forms. Amgen brought this dream to a group of contractors including Pan-Pacific and tasked us with creating a building and system that could help them in their desire to grow.
Through our cooperation and collaboration with other trades and vendors we were able to create a building that achieved the Owner’s needs and we did it in such as way that we delivered the facility 60 days early allowing Amgen to package enough product to pay for the building in that time frame.
Contractor: Swinerton Builders
Year of Completion: 1997
The Clinical Manufacturing facility won Project of the Year and Pan-Pacific was proud to be a part of it. Many new challenges were issued to Pan-Pacific and we enjoyed overcoming each one of them. Challenges faced and overcome included working with a contractor unfamiliar with the intricacies of a clinical manufacturing facility and using new concepts in construction which today we would call IPD. But perhaps the biggest challenge came half-way through the project when the Owner discovered a deficiency in the critical systems of the building tasking us with finding a solution. As a total mechanical project for Pan-Pacific we were the lead subcontractor providing the critical path and critical systems to the success of this building. We were able to engineer a solution to this deficiency and meet the needs of the Owner with no time extension.
Contractor: Turner Construction
Year of Completion: 1992
Through our diligence on this fast-tracked research facility, we discovered a number of systems that were missing from the drawings. We become part of the solution by finding ways to address the addition of these systems into a constructed building, as well as identifying acceptable installation procedures that achieved the Owner’s requirements. To meet these discovered challenges we used our innovation and collaboration with our trusted vendors to meet the ever-changing needs. For example, we redesigned the single planned DI system into six separate and independent DI systems which allowed for the intended delivery of the DI water. In another instance we discovered a way to deliver nitrogen at various pressures throughout the building by suggesting individual regulators at each outlet. All of these challenges resulted in over 750 changes orders which we were able to complete without time extensions.
Contractor: Tutor-Saliba
Year of Completion: 2007
The California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) is a research center at UCLA whose mission is to encourage university collaboration with industry and to enable the rapid commercialization of discoveries in nanosystems. CNSI members who are on the faculty at UCLA represent a multi-disciplinary team of some of the world's preeminent scientists. The work conducted at the CNSI represents world-class expertise in four targeted areas of nanosystems-related research including Energy, Environment, Health-Medicine and Information Technology.
Pan-Pacific performed 180,000 square feet of Tennant Improvement work for CNSI at UCLA which opened in 2007. This seven-story facility houses wet and dry laboratories including 1,400 feet of high-purity, stainless steel, orbitally-welded specialty gas piping which provided the University the flexibility to change the deliverable gasses to meet their needs. Pan-Pacific installed and coordinated the alarm system and leak detection systems for the highly-explosive and hazardous gasses which would be utilized throughout the facility for scientific experiments. Additionally, the facility contains three floors of core facilities with equipment including class 100 and 1,000 clean rooms for projects led by CNSI and other faculty.
Contractor: Turner Construction
Year of Completion: 2004
AIlergan in Irvine, CA totals almost four acres and Pan-Pacific has been a partner on many developments and remodels there.
We are extremely proud of the 174,000 square-foot research and development facility that contains a 50,000 square-foot interstitial/utility level, two levels of biology and chemistry research labs and a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) lab with support office space and a 250-seat auditorium and extensive site improvements.
Pan-Pacific was a key subcontractor on the project, performing site work and construction services.
Contractor: Rudolph & Sletten
Year of Completion: 2007
Originally constructed for Advanced Bionics this two-story, 180,415 square-foot complex located in the northern hills of Valencia is now home to Boston Scientific. The first story contains all the mechanical areas, laboratory spaces and a 15,000 square-foot clean-room specializing in Nano Technology. The second floor is for administration and operations which contains over 200 work spaces. This project encompassed many different, non-typical plumbing systems such as Medical Air, Vacuum, Helium, Argon, Nitrogen, Reverse-Osmosis Water, Oxygen and Hydrogen.
One of the biggest challenges Pan-Pacific faced was the intricate and complex maze of piping which runs underneath the raised floor of the clean-room. This piping had to not only be installed per medical standards, but it also had to be fully coordinated to avoid the floor supports placed on two-foot centers which were installed after our piping. The piping main for each gas line entering the room was an unregulated, full-pressure line. This required multiple pressure regulators to be installed and calibrated in order to achieve the desired output pressures. Pan-Pacific’s knowledge of laboratory protocols helped us delivered the project on-time and within budget with zero lost-time accidents.
Contractor: Dillingham
Year of Completion: 1990
In 1990, Pan-Pacific completed the expansion of the Doris Stein Eye Institute and companion building the Doris Stein Research Center on the UCLA Campus in Westwood, California. The Research Center is a four-story facility which provides 67,000 square feet for clinical and laboratory research, patient care activities, ophthalmic photography, optical dispensing and computer-related services. It also houses the Clinical Research Center, which provides core support for patient-based research studies. A conference center complex, including the 156-seat Research to Prevent Blindness Auditorium, links the building to the Jules Stein Eye Institute and accommodates the Institute's education and community service programs.
