Exact Sciences is a molecular diagnostics company focused on colorectal cancer detection. Their ground-breaking technology in the Cologard tests has launched them into exponential growth since 2014. Potter Lawson began working with Exact Sciences in 2013 while they were in research and development and moving through clinical trials. We have been honored to help them grow to more than 1,800 employees over the past four years through strategic programming, space planning and master planning.
Potter Lawson served as the interior architect on theie new five-story, 146,891 square foot headquarters located in University Research Park adjacent to their current research and development lab. The new headquarters brings together the executive, business functions, and administrative staff who were divided among three buildings as well as a 346-stall underground parking ramp and 134 surface stalls.
This new world headquarters is home to 500+ staff and focuses on collaboration, flexibility, efficiencies in workflow, and wellness. This project exhibits several sustainability features including onsite dining and fitness reducing vehicular traffic, three levels of underground parking reducing onsite impervious surfaces, high performance building envelope, native landscaping removing the need for irrigation, stormwater is designed to use the Parks prairie-way infrastructure to help control stormwater, and highly efficient mechanical systems.
