Our Background

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SlateXpace™ was created for innovators

With three decades of innovation driving us forward, the CRB team has once again identified the industry’s next seismic shift and has engineered a solution to keep our clients ahead of it.

Today’s pharmaceutical manufacturers face immense pressure to move fast. To meet that pressure, they’re developing complex product pipelines, hoping to scale successful modalities to commercial volume quickly and cost-effectively. Conventional facilities, designed for single-product manufacturing, are slowing them down.

A new breed of manufacturing facility is necessary, one that’s designed to campaign smoothly between modalities without extended downtime or costly modifications. It needs to be flexible, scalable, and easy for manufacturers to validate and operate. Above all, it needs to retain its value long into the future, no matter where that future goes next.

It needs to be SlateXpace™.

Dedicated SlateXpace™ Team

SlateXpace, a CRB solution, leverages the expertise and capabilities of an experienced team that manages every detail end to end – from facility fabrication and delivery, equipment selection and installation, to start-up, qualification, and operator training.

We pair our experts in architecture, engineering, construction and consulting with strategically selected partners to offer a proven integrated project delivery team.

SlateXpace is the synthesis of recent earth-shattering yet seemingly unrelated advancements across multiple industries. The culture (and success) of CRB is deeply rooted in uncovering such hidden connections. We saw the pieces and put them together so you don’t have to. At its core, SlateXpace is a philosophy. It’s a new way of thinking that, once you experience it, you can’t ignore.

JP Bornholdt – Director, SlateXpace Technical Operations

Would you rather build a car or buy the one that meets all your needs? SlateXpace is like buying a car that meets current needs and also a “Transformer” that can serve as the needs evolve in the future. This pre-engineered system designed to serve multiple modalities gives a leading edge when it comes to adapting to the evolving life science industry and fighting pandemic.

Sachin Gheware – Lead Mechanical Engineer

The term ‘disruptive’ gets thrown around a lot in our industry. But for our clients, SlateXpace is exactly that – a game-changing turnkey facility, delivered in record time with budget certainty, that provides the kind of flexibility once considered impossible for customized and novel processes. SlateXpace was created with a simple vision: develop an elegant platformed solution that enables our clients to meet their increasingly complex objectives with confidence and deliver lifesaving therapies to their patients sooner.

Noel Maestre – Vice President, Life Sciences

As a team of designers and builders who have dedicated our careers to serving the life sciences industry, we set out to reimagine the design and delivery process based on current technologies and industry climate – with the ultimate goal of delivering lifesaving therapies to patients more quickly and efficiently. From technical framework to spatial and operational flexibility to ONEsolution turnkey delivery, we are excited to offer a streamlined elegance with SlateXpace.

Grace Linton – Facility Planning and Integration Specialist

SlateXpace was born from a drive to create an elegant future-facing facility solution for advanced therapy manufacturers struggling with modern manufacturing challenges. It’s incredibly exciting in that it reframes how manufacturing spaces are designed and delivered, and enables companies to realize facility spaces faster, with better certainty, than ever before. It has changed the way we see what’s possible.

Peter Walters – Director, Advanced Therapies

Our clients have spoken and we have developed our SlateXpace solution to deliver. More than just a modular clean room, SlateXpace is a complete turnkey delivery model that is designed to support the requirements of our client’s current process platform – with the flexibility and adaptability to future-proof their facility for tomorrow’s business needs. Integrated with our proven, world-class process design and construction capabilities, CRB has another exciting tool in our belt to handle all aspects of our client’s investments from concept to operational-readiness.

Lee Emel – Vice President, Operations

Designed for a flexible future, from the team with an extraordinary history.

CRB is a world leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, construction, and consulting services, with a focus on facilities designed to advance the life sciences. Our more than 1,000 employees provide best-in-class solutions that drive success and positive change for our clients, our people, and our communities.

Our Mission

Our mission is to meet the challenges of modern pharmaceutical manufacturing with a flexible, multimodal solution that delivers product to market faster and more cost-effectively.

“We started SlateXpace with the goal of delivering a facility that would never be idle. Manufacturers have the means to rapidly shift their operations as technologies change, business expands, and patient needs evolve. That will minimize downtime and maximize growth, no matter what comes next.”

— Ryan Schroeder, President of CRB