Project Team and User Education for Animal Facilities

Steps to take in the planning phase.

Published November 2006 How you organize and educate your project team and building users can have a vital role in the success of your facility.

In putting together your animal or research facility project team, it is not enough to select the team – also create a formal team organization chart naming names and relationships. For your contractor workers and tradespeople, you will get better animal facility project outcomes if you give them a project, science, and mission lecture to get understanding and buy-in on why quality matters. And, early on, inform your building users about two important building facts they are they are probably ignorant of: 1) Only 50-75% of funds for are for actual construction, and 2) The net square feet is only 50-60% of the total shell.

- From Tradeline’s Animal Research Facilities 2006 Conference