Offices in Collaborative Science Buildings

Clusters enhance interaction.

Published July 2006 A feature of collaborative facilities.

A feature of facilities that are designed for collaborative science (if they have offices in them at all) is that they will have office clusters as opposed to individual offices near labs. Putting offices in lab areas is expensive and non-collaborative.

- From Tradeline’s Science Buildings Canada 2006 Conference

Explore the sociology of collaborative research space in Tradeline's article on De-Mystifying the Metrics of Multi-Use Laboratories.