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BJ Services Technology and Employee Development Center
Corner Exterior
Interior Courtyard
Interior Courtyard
Courtyard Entry
Frac Lab Hallway
Lobby
Scale Lab Hallway
Rock Crusher Lab
Video Conferencing Room
  1. Tomball, TX
  2. 2004
  3. Synchro was asked to design and build a new laboratory and training facility as a second phase of the Tomball campus expansion.
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  5. -125,000 square feet
  6. -R&D Magazine Lab of the Year Finalist
  7. -2006 Houston Business Journal, Landmark Award Finalist
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In 2001, BJ Services recognized the need for a new laboratory and training facilities on their expanding Tomball campus. Additionally, there was a need for a state-of-the-art customer center to accommodate the numerous presentations and customers tours that investors and visitors receive each month.
 
Synchro convinced BJ Services that their new flagship structure needed a dramatic outside radius to sweep the busy intersection that it bordered. Despite some reluctance that a “curved” building would be spatially cost inefficient, the final design in face, employed multiple radii and elevations.
 
The new building houses 22 state-of-the-art laboratories that conduct 43 distinct technical functions, 9 separate training classrooms, equipment simulator rooms, 3 conference rooms, a remote communications theater, a large lunchroom, and a spacious lobby.