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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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Plan for the needs of your equipment.
Thick steel plates are used for shielding massive MRIs. Cyclotrons use lead bricks and thick concrete for shielding. Second floor concrete slabs can be stiffened for sensitive equipment but it’s costly. Understand maintenance requirements for MRIs. ...
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What class of cleanroom do you need?
Nanoscience research is most commonly performed in cleanrooms, at least Class 10,000. Multiple class cleanrooms are becoming more common. Class 10,000 teaching cleanrooms ready students for higher grade facilities. Some cleanroom support rooms use HVAC su...
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ACPH for Laboratory Facilities
Recommended air changes per hour (ACPH) is 4-15 by regulations. Most labs go no lower than 6 ACPH and average ~8 ACPH, dependent on safety.
Learn more about air changes....
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Factors for Design
Historic lab design used a factor of 20 watts/sf, current typical design is to 5 watts/sf and actual usage is usually less than 2 watts/sf. Support rooms and flex rooms are where concentrated power usage is these days....
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Estimated Percentages
LEED™ Silver adds 3%-8% to construction cost. Gold adds 8%-15%. Platinum can add as much as 25%.
-From Tradeline's Academic Science Buildings 2005 Conference
Learn about BioSquare's new LEED™ certified lab building. ...
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Stairways and Elevators
Stairways are not effective circulation devices, no matter how well designed. Elevators are used almost exclusively.
Learn about integrators - links between buildings and floors....
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Percentages for Laboratory Facilities
Normal laboratory building efficiency is 55%-65%.
What is building utilization efficiency?...
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Innovative Design Ideas for Lab Planning
Current design for flexible laboratories puts fixed casework and fume hoods at room perimeter. Ceiling or floor mounted supplies at the center of the room with movable tables allows for equipment placement. Some teaching labs have pods of fume hoods in th...
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Models and Cost
Racetrack design is least costly, followed by layered support. Dedicated lab/support space is most costly.
- From Tradeline's Academic Science Buildings 2005 Conference
What is a racetrack design?
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Anticipating inflation.
Construction costs have been rising approximately 8 percent per year for the past 5 years. Anticipate 1 percent per month inflation over the course of large projects. Plan for it with a separate escalation funding source, pursue a shelled-space strategy, ...
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Recovery systems and modeling.
Heat or cool recovery is recommended on all HVAC systems. It allows for conservative sizing of units and cuts operational costs in the long term. Additionally, complicated HVAC designs mandate 3-D modeling during design.
-From Tradeline's Academic Scienc...
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Steps for Selection and Installation
Use “state of the industry” research equipment wherever possible to minimize risk. Installation requirements and maintenance are widely known and easily documented. “State of the art” equipment is still going through a learning cur...
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A necessary building amenity.
Soft space is a useful building amenity for attracting top researchers. Lounges, informal learning areas, and public spaces in lab buildings increase PI and grad student socialization and allow “aha” moments. Soft space is now being seen as ne...
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Considerations for project management.
Include time in pre-programming to meet with permitting and inspection agencies. It avoids later surprise requirements and allows for education of authorities. Develop a wish list during first programming but make sure users know that not all will be incl...
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Navigating user tendencies.
If you want an interdisciplinary science building or core technical facility that gets used, location is the critical factor. Put it where the users are. Users won’t walk far to use it.
- From Tradeline's Academic Science Buildings 2005 Conference
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Showers and effluent decontamination.
If you are remodeling for BSL-3 space for avian flu research, according to the NIH/CDC BMBL 5th Edition, you need showers, and hence effluent decontamination.
- From Tradeline's Academic Science Buildings 2005 Conference
What is effluent?...
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What's the connection?
You will save a lot of construction money if during the project there is no change in school leadership and no change in the design/construction team. This suggests doing projects fast.
- From Tradeline's Academic Science Buildings 2005 Conference
Disco...
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The trend toward student-generated outcomes.
The trend toward student-generated outcomes as a teaching pedagogy means team-teaching with modern instruments, and that in turn makes safety a top design priority.
- From Tradeline's Academic Science Buildings 2005 Conference
Learn about the use of tec...
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Applications for Teaching and Research Facilities
Interior glass is becoming a more common feature in research and science teaching facilities. It enhances safety, fosters a community atmosphere, is good for facility tours and recruiting, and makes science a theme attraction.
Interior glass was used ext...
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Vital for Lab Flexibility
Whatever instruments you are planning for now, in five years they will be different. This is a recommendation for mobile equipment carts and overhead distribution grids for utilities. The big flexibility concept for labs is to separate the ceiling utility...
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A PI-pleasing investment.
Consider under-counter glass washers. PIs love them.
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A strategy for research tool maintenance.
When capital dollars are easier to come by than operating funds, use capital funds to buy multi-year service contracts for research tools.
Learn about innovative ideas for capital funding strategies as implemented by Brigham Young University.
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Specialized spaces for multiple disciplines.
Today it is generally recognized that science buildings are collections of many specialized spaces. No more just-chemistry, just-biology, or just-physics buildings.
What is a multidisciplinary lab?
Learn about the metrics of multi-use laboratories....
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A "Low-End" Solution
A proven effective "low-end" solution to CO2, humidity, and odor in a rodent holding room is to direct ventilated cage exhaust that is exhausting into the room to the room exhaust port using a simple PVC pipe. No extra fans involved -- just a pa...
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