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Amtech Systems is a corporate research/development lab, and manufacturing headquarters for radio frequency toll collection, tracking, and identification devices. Half of the structure is devoted to R&D testing, prototyping, and manufacturing, while the remainder is comprised of corporate offices, engineering, marketing, and training areas. Structural design for vibration control isolates testing labs and manufacturing functions from each other. The engineering department is separated from the electronics lab and common areas by a continuous circular skylight vault that contains a drafting mezzanine daylighted through a diffusing linear skylight. The building’s façade is comprised of CMU walls, cast concrete columns, and metal clad fascias, highlighted by blue-tinted glazing.

LOCATION: Albuquerque, New Mexico
CLIENT: Amtech Inc.
DATE OF COMPLETION: 1993
SIZE: 70,000 s.f.
FEATURES: Laser manufacturing facility and laboratory, with training, office and administrative areas.

“Amtech places great emphasis on meeting schedule an cost targets and took great pains to select an architect who, while designing a world class engineering and manufacturing facility, would keep schedule and cost factors at a high priority. We were not disappointed.”
William D. Powers, Senior VP, Amtech.
         
 

 

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