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Strategic + creative leadership
We are your trusted advisors.
Since 2005, Precis has been guided by dual commitments to technical excellence and client service. From offices in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, we provide interdisciplinary collaboration to help our clients achieve business success.
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Tailored + innovative design solutions
Engineering + Architecture for performance-critical facilities
Precis provides award-winning, comprehensive design services to support the business goals and operational priorities of clients in the pharmaceutical + biotechnology, life sciences + technology, higher education, industrial, corporate + commercial, and healthcare markets.
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Leading + learning every day
A culture of innovation and continual improvement
The Precis culture fosters client relationships and supports each employee’s career development. We encourage each other, embrace new ideas, and learn from different perspectives. We believe coming to work each day should be energizing.
Who We Are
For life sciences and beyond
We are a full-service, integrated practice with locations in Pennsylvania and North Carolina. We ensure continuity of design and implementation from concept through operations.
We are engineers and architects, technical specialists and creatives. We work together to provide smart solutions for technically complex systems and environments.
We make the complex elegant. We conceptualize and design safe, reliable, efficient, and effective systems and spaces, built for growth and change, that sustainably support our clients’ businesses long into the future.
Services
what we do

Engineering
Electrical
Plumbing
Fire Protection + Life Safety
Structural
Process
Automation
Project Management
Sustainability
Reality Capture
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Architecture + Interiors
Architecture
Interiors
Planning
Process
Project Management
Sustainability
Reality Capture
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Process
Process Architecture
Process Automation
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Automation
Automation Engineering
Site-wide Planning
System Integration
Platform Independence
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Featured Projects
work with us
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DSM Biomedical – Innovation Center
Precis provided mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineering design services for a 2,500-sf interior renovation to the existing DSM facility in Exton, Pennsylvania.
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Fruh Packaging, Inc. - U.S. Expansion
Fruh Packaging, Inc. opened its new, state-of-the-art production facility in Exton, Pennsylvania. Früh Verpackungstechnik, located in Fehraltorf, Switzerland, is a leading Swiss industrial company that develops solutions for complex packaging needs.
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WuXi Advanced Therapies (ATU)’s R400 Testing Laboratory Building
A wholly owned subsidiary of WuXi AppTec, WuXi Advanced Therapies (ATU)’s R400 Testing Laboratory Building marks the company’s fourth facility at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
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Hankin Group - Speculative Building
Precis provided architecture and engineering master planning services to Hankin Group, a family-owned real estate development firm, for a three-story, multi-tenant speculative laboratory building for multiple life science tenants involved in the drug discovery process.
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Penn State - Beaver Stadium Capital Improvement Projects
Following a comprehensive maintenance evaluation of Penn State’s Beaver Stadium that Precis performed, Precis remains engaged for architectural and engineering design services to implement various capital improvement projects for the nation’s second-largest stadium.
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Eisai Pilot Plant
Eisai Co., Ltd. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on research and development for the treatment of cancer and infectious diseases. The award-winning building was designed for the production of biologics to support early-stage clinical trials.

Precis Joins the Science Based Targets initiative (STBi)
In celebration of Earth Day 2025, we are thrilled to announce that Precis has officially joined the Science Based Targets Initiative (STBi). This commitment marks

Precis Hires Kevin J. Hollenbeck, AIA, as Director – Life Sciences in Ambler, PA
We are pleased to announce the addition of Kevin J. Hollenbeck, AIA as Director – Life Sciences based in the Ambler office. An architect with 15+ years

Leading Life Sciences – The Value of Precis: Process Engineering
In Issue 2 of our “Leading Life Sciences – The Value of Precis” series, we highlight the expertise of the Precis Process Engineering Team and

Precis Hires Steve Buxton as Project Executive
We are please to announce the addition of Steve Buxton to our team as Project Executive based in the Ambler office. A mechanical engineer with over