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Cavanagh to lead healthcare & sciences studio at Maugel DeStefano Architects

Colby Cavanagh

Harvard, MA Maugel DeStefano Architects, an award-winning architectural firm specializing in healthcare, science and advanced technology, industrial, commercial, multifamily, and custom residential design in the northeastern United States, has appointed architect Colby Cavanagh to lead the firm’s healthcare & sciences design studio.

Cavanagh joined the firm in 2009 as a designer within Maugel DeStefano’s institutional studio where she worked with diverse clients focused on the healthcare and sciences sector. Her design expertise includes hospital renovations, ground-up outpatient facilities, medical office suites, labs, R&D facilities, medical devices manufacturing, and biomanufacturing facilities. In her new role, Cavanagh will manage the day-to-day operations of the studio and cultivate new healthcare and science relationships for the firm. Principals Jonathan Cocker and Mark Pelletier will continue to drive strategic initiatives within the healthcare and science sectors, alongside Cavanagh.

“Colby Cavanagh has been instrumental to Maugel DeStefano’s growth in the healthcare and science markets. Time and again she has proven her ability to successfully manage high-visibility projects while far exceeding our clients’ expectations,” said Cocker. “Her dedication to client advocacy and her technical design expertise are not only invaluable to our healthcare and science clients, but to our firm as well. A natural leader, Colby is the perfect choice to foster continued growth in the studio and to develop the next generation of leaders at Maugel DeStefano Architects.”

Here are some notable projects designed by Maugel DeStefano’s healthcare & sciences studio:

• Acton Medical Associates — medical office renovations in Acton, Harvard, Hudson, and Littleton, Mass.

• Advocates, Inc. — 14,000 s/f community-based behavioral health center and crisis stabilization unit in Framingham, Mass.

• Bruker Corp. — over 150,000 s/f of lab and offices renovations across Bruker’s Biospin, Optics, Scientific, Nano Systems and Daltonics divisions in Billerica, Mass.

• Circle Health — satellite facilities in Dracut, Billerica, Tewksbury, and Westford, Mass. 

• KSQ Therapeutics — life science repositioning and tenant interior of 57,000 s/f R&D facility at Four Maguire Rd. in Lexington, Mass.

• LeMaitre Vascular — over a dozen lab & office projects in Burlington, Mass.

• Lowell General – outpatient facilities in Billerica, Chelmsford, and Lowell, Mass. 

• Sturdy Memorial Hospital — seven-year hospital renovation and modernization to LDRP, imaging, central sterilization, inpatient pharmacy, same-day surgery, and OR Suites in Attleboro, Mass. 

• Sturdy Memorial Associates – ground-up medical office building in Plainville, Mass

• UMass Memorial Health — in-patient hospital facilities in Marlboro, and out-patient medical offices in Harvard and Milford, Mass.

• Werfen — 169, 500 s/f ground-up R&D facility and 200,000 s/f of lab/office renovations. 

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