Perkins+Will Designs New Research and Product Development Facility
WASHINGTON, D.C. –– Designed by the Washington, DC office of award-winning global architectural and design firm, Perkins+Will, the New Research and Product Development Facility for the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CCAM) at Crosspointe Centre, southeast of Richmond, Virginia has opened.
CCAM is a new model for public-private partnership in research and development between universities and industry, which will promote faster and more cost-effective transition of laboratory discoveries to commercial applications. Established as a non-profit organization, CCAM’s dues-paying industrial members enjoy intellectual property rights resulting from shared research, while at the same time being able to commission proprietary research projects. This business model, the first of its kind in North America, is housed in a new 63,000-square foot state-of-the-art facility, designed to enable coordination and cooperation between manufacturers and Virginia’s top research and teaching universities. Engineering and computational laboratories and a large factory-like high bay space support the main research themes of surface engineering and manufacturing systems.