This design-assist project was a $154 million research and development facility for Stryker Instruments. The project included over 75 acres of site development, and a 485,000 SF, three-story facility with R&D commercial and leadership teams. The project greatly impacted the Kalamazoo area, cementing Stryker’s legacy in the community. This building also boasts a customer experience center with a fully operational operating room where surgeons can work with Stryker teams to develop the next generation of medical devices. It was a large and complex project that had its challenges, including 3 major schedule delays. It was the largest project in Kalamazoo in the last 20 years and this project finished on budget and on schedule.
The project impacted the community by cementing Stryker’s legacy in the Portage community. 966 jobs were retained with the project and 105 added. Stryker’s corporate office and two flagship divisions of their global expansive organization of 40,000 people around the world are anchored in Portage. For Buist Electric, as an employee-owned company, each of our employees has a vested interest in not only the success of our company but also the communities in which we live and work. We have 126 employees living in and around Kalamazoo county. Being able to contribute on a project like Stryker’s offered the exciting opportunity of being a part of the construction of a world-class facility within our community, as well as being involved in the overall growth of our community. Buist Electric was chosen for the job because of a trusted relationship and confidence that Buist would do the job right.
Facts about this project include:
- Utility substation on development site.
- Over a ½ mile of power infrastructure.
- Over a ½ mile of communication infrastructure.
- (15) miles of underground
- (250) exterior light fixtures
- (5) Indoor substations
- (5,600) light fixtures
- (130) miles of conduit
- (440) miles of wire
- (165) miles of communication cable
- (1900) data drops
- Integrated cellular and public safety DAS system
