Jeffrey Talka

The S/L/A/M Collaborative
Science and Technology Practice Leader
Jeff has over 35 years of experience as a practicing architect with over the last 25 years focused on research and development facilities for the bio/medical, cleanroom and pharmaceutical sectors, with over 3 million SF of successfully executed projects. Jeff has programmed, designed, managed, and peer reviewed such facilities on a worldwide basis. His experience ranges from academic research laboratories to vivaria, drug development and research (GLP/GMP), and nanotechnology facilities, and he is sought as a speaker on the design of these facilities from an integrated architecture-engineering approach. He has established a program of book-ending services which attach pre-design and programming to the front-end of project basic services and commissioning, validation, and user-friendly operations support on the back end.