News

Oct 2, 2019

CRB is excited to announce the promotion of Matthew Khair to the position of Western Regional Leader – Design Services.

Oct 2, 2019

CRB is excited to announce that Can Aktar has been appointed the leader of the Basel office and Christian Goesker has joined as engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) director in Stuttgart.

Oct 2, 2019

CRB welcomes Ruben Pedroza in the role of senior project manager.

Sep 3, 2019

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has appointed Josh Miksch as a “Special Expert” and Alternate to Reinhard Hanselka on the NFPA Technical Committee on Fire Code.

Aug 15, 2019

Ben Rucker offers tips for picking an automation project and ensuring success in Food Engineering’s August issue.

Jul 29, 2019

Matt Decker, AIA is featured in Lab Manager for his article “Four Technologies That Are Changing Lab Safety.”

Jul 23, 2019

Pablo Coronel, Ph.D. and Brian Gifford are featured in Baking & Snack‘s “Fending off allergens with isolated production lines.”

Jul 18, 2019

Katelyn Deckert, laboratory planner and architect in CRB’s Kansas City office, is featured in Consulting-Specifying Engineer Magazine.

May 28, 2019

Matthew Khair, Maryland Office Leader/Senior Associate, and J. Lee Emel, Southeast Regional Leader/Senior Associate at CRB are featured in Pharma’s Almanac’s current issue, entitled “Reducing Waste with Lean Delivery in Facility Design and Construction.”

May 22, 2019

Jeff Wegner, PE is featured in Consulting-Specifying Engineer Magazine. Wegner’s article outlines 10 sustainable site energy solutions that industry leaders can implement now.

May 21, 2019

Jason Tucker, senior process engineer at CRB, is now a Certified Conformance Evaluator (CCE) for 3-A Sanitary Standards, Inc. (SSI).

Apr 16, 2019

Tom Rychlewski and Larry Klein are featured in Food Processing’s “2019 Capital spending outlook: Building bigger.” The annual capital spending survey forecasts a 16.6 percent boost as food + beverage producers pump up the size of their building projects.

Apr 9, 2019

Jeff Matis, PE and Tammi McAllister are featured in Food Engineering’s “A sustainable bottom line: Environmentally friendly upgrades must save money.” The costs and rewards of sustainable design in modern food and beverage manufacturing facilities are explained in the article.

Apr 5, 2019

Niranjan Kulkarni, Ph.D. and Steve Pflantz, PE are featured in Food Engineering’s March 2019 cover story, “The digitalization journey: Use segmented digitization to be competitive in a lasting, affordable way.” The article details planning and executing a successful implementation of digital techniques to improve processes, increase efficiency and obtain actionable information from them.

Apr 1, 2019

The demand for CGMP clinical batch trial suites are on the rise at academic institutions, and rigorous grant application and facility design and construction requirements must be navigated with precision.

Mar 27, 2019

Pablo Coronel, Ph.D. is featured in Food Safety Strategies, weighing in on critical sanitary considerations in aging snack and bakery facilities.

Mar 26, 2019

CRB’s Ryan McDonough is featured in this month’s The Medicine Maker. His article, “NextGen Now: Delivering Tomorrow’s Facilities Today” discusses how cell and gene therapy products will successfully reach patients and deliver transformative cures, however the industry will need more facilities capable of manufacturing them.

Mar 13, 2019

Niranjan Kulkarni, PhD, Director of Operations Improvement at CRB is featured in Pharma Almanac’s current issue, entitled “Leveraging Operational Simulations to Design Cell Therapy Facilities.”

Mar 11, 2019

Pilot plants represent a milestone in a drug’s commercial development, where drug sponsors first explore engineering, commercialization, clinical, regulatory, and process issues outside the relative safety of laboratory scale. And, as the test ground for a product’s ultimate manufacturability, pilot scale is where drug sponsors often return to de-bottleneck or to solve unanticipated production issues.

Mar 4, 2019

CRB’s Paola Ramirez contributed to BioProcess International’s recent article on the “Development of Large-Scale Bulk Freezing Systems.”

Feb 19, 2019

In today’s age of technology, manufacturers must guard themselves against cyberattacks. Automation and integration create more efficient facilities but can leave companies exposed if not properly secured. 

Feb 14, 2019

Pablo Coronel, Ph.D. talks with Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery about tackling food safety improvements in existing plants without interrupting production in the February 2019 issue.

Jan 22, 2019

CRB’s Clay Seese is featured in PharmTech’s January Equipment & Processing Report.

Jan 9, 2019

CRB’s Tammi McAllister is featured in the December issue of Food Engineering.

Jan 2, 2019

Jim Contratto, a design and construction professional with 37 years of experience, has joined CRB’s Central region as the director of business development. Contratto has a wide range of knowledge in the construction industry, previously working in the areas of pre-construction, operations, design and business development. His understanding of complex construction projects in the life sciences and advanced technology industries bring an added level of expertise to CRB and CRB’s clients.