October Chapter Meeting
Medtronic Campus - Designing for Health and the Environment
Monday, October 8, 2007
Join us October 8 for an opportunity to tour the new Medtronic Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management (CRDM) headquarters campus. Medtronic is known for developing life-saving therapies and devices for people around the world. This campus will house the company’s administration, research and development, and marketing departments for implantable pacemakers and defibrillators, monitoring and diagnostic devices and cardiac resynchronization devices and external defibrillators (AEDs). The 85-acre campus near Highway 10 and 35W in Mounds View will be the largest Medtronic facility in the world.
After breaking ground on Phase 1 on December 7, 2005, the construction is nearly complete and they are currently in the midst of a 12 week process of moving in 3,000 people. Anchored by three 8-story buildings totaling 1.2 million S
F, this first phase is anticipated to initially house up to 3,200 employees performing research & development, management, marketing, sales, finance and legal and support functions. Ultimately, the campus master plan would contain 1.5 million SF and serve 6,000 employees.
The campus is LEED registered but not LEED certified. However, since Medtronic is all about health, the campus incorporates many sustainable design features and healthy building initiatives. This includes many sustainable site features like xeriscaping, storm water management ponds, and a 5-level parking ramp in lieu of comparable surface parking, as well as interior features like natural daylight throughout the building, carpet tiles to allow removal and replacement of a small area rather than a complete tear-out, and office cubicles near the windows and private offices towards the core. The furniture was the result of a design competition between three manufacturers, and is ergonomically designed in a custom 7’-6 x 7’-6 module. The design of the building allows for transparency, where the reflecting pond appears to flow through the conference room a
nd greenery from the back is visible from the corridor in the front.
Our afternoon tour guide and evening presenter will be Jim Driessen, project manager with Medtronic Global Solutions. A mechanical engineer by training, a project manager by practice, with 27 years of experience Jim has been instrumental in the success of this project. He will be joined tentatively by the designer, Dan Young Dixon of Opus; Medtronic project manager, Jennifer Halligan; and Opus construction project manager, George Parrino.
Schedule:
4:00 - 5:00 PM Tour of the new Medtronic Campus
5:00 - 6:00 PM Registration/Social Hour
6:00 - 7:00 PM Dinner/Chapter meeting
7:00 - 8:00 PM Presentation on the Sustainable Features of the Campus
Location:
Tour Directions:
35W north to County Road J.
Go west on County Road J to Coral Sea Street (signal light here).
Coral Sea south to the visitors’ parking lot.
Meet inside the front door to the building, adjacent to the visitors’ lot.
Dinner:
The Mermaid, Coral Ballroom
November Chapter Meeting
Safe & Secure by Design – How Target has utilized technology & public/private partnerships to secure their facilities
The November 12th meeting will be a lunch meeting at the Metropolitan Ballroom in St. Louis Park. The program is related to the use of technology for security. The title of the program is “Safe & Secure by Design – How Target has utilized technology & public/private partnerships to secure their facilities.” Registration is will begin at 11:00 AM followed by lunch and the chapter meeting at 11:30. The program will begin at 12:15.
The presentation will be given by Brian Strawser and Gregg Patyk of Target. Bryan Strawser is the Manager of Assets Protection Innovation. Gregg Patyk is the Senior Manager, Global Investigations & Forensics Services.
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