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Commercial & industrial GC · Est. 1998

Process plant under construction at night, lit by site lights, with crawler cranes against a deep blue sky

P-03 Industrial & Advanced Manufacturing Under construction

Helix Bioworks Production Facility

Foundry District, Calder Flats

A cGMP biologics production plant: ISO 7 cleanrooms, process utilities, and a schedule set by the first batch run.

Size
145,000 SF
Contract value
$112M
Duration
18 months
Delivery method
Design-Build
Status
Underway, topping out Q3 2026
Sector
Industrial & Advanced Manufacturing
Location
Foundry District, Calder Flats

N-01 The brief

Helix Bioworks sold its first commercial production slots before the building existed. The facility (ISO 7 cleanroom suites and a process-utility spine of RO/DI water, clean steam and compressed gases) had to be mechanically complete in time for a nine-month equipment qualification campaign that could not move.

N-02 The build

Progressive design-build: scope and price validated with the owner's process engineers before contract, then the schedule built backwards from the qualification start date. The process-utility racks are being prefabricated off-site in 40-foot modules while our crews place the 14-inch production slab. Every cleanroom envelope detail is being documented as-built for the owner's quality dossier during construction, not reconstructed afterwards.

N-03 The handover

Structure tops out Q3 2026, tracking eleven days ahead of the qualification-driven baseline. (A fictional project shown mid-construction. This is how we report progress: honestly and in writing.)

The owner's view

“The as-built records arrive while the building goes up, not after. My quality team has never been this far ahead on a capital project.”

Priya Natarajan, Head of Site Engineering, Helix Bioworks Fictional reference

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