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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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The Future of Science
The future of science is going in the direction of "deep" computing for modeling and for very large-scale, data-intense experiments. Biology is going to have to acquire and adopt large-scale computational methods -- prodigious computing capacity...
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A National Mission
A big new national research mission is shaping up to harvest biotech and biosciences research for the NATION -- especially addressing energy issues: 1. Zero CO2 emissions by the end of the century, as CO2 stays with us forever 2. Energy security in the fa...
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LEED™ and Certification
With regard to LEED™ certification for academic science buildings, schools report they are making the application of LEED™ principles an integrated and serious part of their capital project process. But the opinion is that actually going throu...
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A Revenue-based System
Research space assignments are moving toward revenue-based allocations. Arizona State University requires research revenue of $265/nsf. Consider this calculation: If the net/gross ratio is 60%, and the cost of construction is $300/nsf, a $40-million build...
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Applications for Teaching Facilities
Two key ingredients for successful technology implementation in teaching:
You need one or more "champions" amongst the faculty
You have to have a technology support infrastructure (staff) to give personal assistance to professors i...
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Occupant and Instrument Density
A new trend - labs are increasingly becoming instrument rooms. In science buildings where large-scale instrumentation is dictating low-occupancy-density environments, the planning goal should be to create special people-dense social areas. This is particu...
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A New Model
In some instances, faculty recruitment means getting a top scientist who brings with him or her an entire research group (maybe 30 or 40 people) and the already in-place research funding stream.
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Figures from Arizona State University
Operations & maintenance costs for ASU's Biodesign Bldg A is $1,620,00, or 2.2% of project cost, or $9.40/sq-ft.
- From Tradeline's Academic Science Buildings 2004 Conference...
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The fastest way to state-of-the-art facilities.
One of the main drivers for renovating lab buildings instead of building new ones is speed. Renovation is a much quicker way to get a state-of-the-art lab if you have existing lab facilities. This speed may be important in recruitment.
- From Tradeline'...
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Common Elements in Science Building Projects
"Integrators" are becoming common elements in science building projects. Integrators refer to links between buildings and pedestrian-friendly stairways between floors....
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Team Science vs. Individual Success
The challenge for many research missions is resolving the conflict between the belief that big scientific breakthroughs of the future will come through team science, and the fact that science currently is organized around individual success within discipl...
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A Cause of Vibration in Nanotech Space
The vibration study findings on Duffield Hall's nano-spaces reveal vacuum pumps brought into the building to be a surprise culprit in creating vibration noise. Overall, the building gets very marks for its low vibration characteristics.
-From Tradeline'...
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The trend towards lower specifications.
The EMF study findings for Duffield Hall reveal a few isolated electrical elements to be noise sources solvable with shielding -- lighting distribution panels, transformers, electrical room door, UPS unit. Overall, the building gets very high marks for it...
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What does it mean?
Interdisciplinary for nano-buildings means: wet chemistry, biologists, theorists (in the middle of the mix), imaging tools, cleanrooms, and lots of informal and formal meeting space. ...
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When do you fit out?
Lesson from Duffield Hall -- "We should have shelled out lab space and fitted it out only once the occupants were known." A perspective: The buildings you are now planing or building will NOT be populated by the people you have programmed them f...
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Correct code flags.
"HPM" on drawings is the wrong code flag. "HPM" stands for Hazardous PRODUCTION Materials. Use instead, "HRM" meaning Hazardous RESEARCH Materials.
- From Tradeline's Nanotechnology Research Space Conference 2004
Learn ab...
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Utilization in semiconductor environments.
Bio-materials in semiconductor environments are a big design issue.
Semiconductor - a definition....
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