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The Tradeline BLOG is an online exchange of quick bits of breaking information, intelligent “briefs”, promising technologies, emerging trends, HOT concepts “overheard” at Tradeline conferences, and some rare, practical stats that will help you keep tuned to the capital projects and facility management profession.
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A best practice for project delivery.
A project delivery best practice is to have as few prime contracts as possible because multiple contracts create points of coordination and control problems for even the best of construction management firms.- From Tradeline's Research Facilities 2008 Con...
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More is better.
Organizations that are not yet into BSL-3 research work, but who build in BSL-3 space on speculation typically build too little BSL-3 space and incur costly modifications later. - From Tradeline's Research Facilities 2008 ConferenceLearn about Success Str...
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Avoid the double-payroll pitfall.
A common unnecessary operating expense for research institutions that have only partially outsourced their facility management services is that they often outsource services and then fail to downsize the management and oversight staff, thereby paying doub...
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Occupant behavioral change creates energy savings.
Whereas LEED points are awarded on designs, one very big “green” and energy-use performance area will be in creating a behavioral change on the part of building occupants and building operators – and for that you don’t get LEED poi...
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Core labs and dry-wet ratios.
The new planning paradigm for research buildings is to start with the core labs and plan the building around those. The trend in academic research facilities is more dry-lab space and less wet-lab space. For a lab floor or zone with 60 people, plan on 6 b...
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Prevent researcher hoarding.
The natural behavior of researchers is to hoard the maximum amount of supplies in their labs wherever they can put them. This uses up valuable vertical shelf space that could be used for something else, and it makes for messy looking labs. Address the sup...
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HVAC - the key to savings.
In general, as an industry we are over-designing tonnages for HVAC in lab buildings, and this offers a huge capital and operating cost-saving opportunity. To cut energy use in lab buildings, the quick, low-hanging fruit is in rebalancing air systems, repl...
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Focus on small quantity solutions.
The days of drum storage for hazardous chemicals are gone. Now the focus is on small-quantity storage solutions. And if in your planning meetings you hear “1A Chemicals”, pay attention, as these chemicals are dangerous due to low flash and boi...
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No more laboratories in basements.
The result of the 2006 International Building Code is that there will be no more labs allowed in basements, and that will have implications for some buildings when it comes to doing lab renovations.- From Tradeline's Research Facilities 2008 ConferenceVis...
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Reduce energy loads with water cooling and chilled beams.
As more and more equipment comes into lab zones, look for energy-saving ways to take heat out of these zones with chilled water instead of expensively treated HVAC. Chilled beams are just now starting to be used in U.S. labs, and for certain lab types act...
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Multiple projects = multiple teams.
When thinking about facilities to accommodate team research, recognize that scientists don’t usually work on just one project at a time, but rather they work on multiple projects with multiple teams. So, the team-science thing is more complex that m...
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Metrics for accommodating meetings.
A collaborative research building will have at least a few meeting rooms that can accommodate up to 30 people. Researcher offices should be at least 160 square feet to accommodate small meetings of up to 6 researchers.- From Tradeline's Research Facilitie...
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Select your lab furniture first.
When planning a building that will have a large number of bench-based labs, don’t make lab module decisions (and hence building grid decisions) without having a good idea of the type of bench system you are going to use or want to be able to use in ...
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Keep science at the center of your campus.
To keep science a vital element at the heart of your campus, don’t abandon your old, classical, center-of-campus science buildings to office or classroom use, or to open space. Instead, re-do them as updated science facilities still at center stage ...
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Opt for extra vertical shaft capacity.
Two high value features of a completed lab building are: 1) you still have some empty space after occupancy, and 2) you have the ability to easily make changes to the occupancy plan. You can make lab buildings less costly by narrowly designing for a speci...
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Eliminate wasted researcher time.
A Lean Processes approach to lab plans will lead to less wasted researcher time, better use of space, lower inventories of supplies, and capital savings through shared equipment. Eliminating wasted time for researchers is a big deal that, for multi-story ...
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The research of the future may not use traditional lab benches.
Don’t fall into the trap of planning labs to accommodate benches. Rather plan them for people and the activities those people will engage in – now and in the future. The next generation of researchers who will be using the labs you build today...
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Ceiling plates provide flexibility.
While some labs are still being built with fixed casework, benches on wheels and overhead utility distribution are becoming a highly popular lab furniture approach. An increasingly popular option in the overhead service delivery concept is a simple, flush...
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