Client Portfolio: Planar Industries

This Planar project won Shur Associates an AIA/DJC Award for Excellence. The building program included new cleanroom and office design for a 45,000 SF high-technology production facility. The design incorporated equipment placement, production support offices, lunchroom, shower facilities, locker rooms, restrooms, and cleanrooms. The concept is based on the “Main Street” model, creating a linear flow for production with a parallel flow for office support activities. A windowed air plenum wall separates the two areas.

Shur Associates built two high-tech cleanrooms, one a Class 100 and the other a Class 100,000. By implementing a U-shape for the larger cleanroom, the Class 100, the design minimized initial cost, operating cost, and square footage, and made it easy to add or eliminate equipment.

Incorporating new management ideas into the design of its new facility helped Planar Systems ensure quality products by keeping workers at all levels of production in contact with the products; Planar’s engineers have windows looking out on the production lines, so they can spot problems in process. Involving members of all departmental teams at every stage of production ensures a sound final product. Shur Associates believes that a quality work environment is the heart of every innovative project.

Remodel of 20,000 SF of existing production area for flat screen manufacturing. New equipment has enabled the company to keep pace with increased orders in rapidly expanding flat screen markets. Work featured redesign and relocation of Customer Service and Quality Assurance Departments. New shipping access doors provide direct; Just-in-time finished product flow from production areas.