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Proving full utilization is a key to funding.
Increasingly research institutions are having to prove the full use of existing building stock before getting funds for new construction. This is not a simple task, but there are analytical tools for doing this.
- From Tradeline's Research Buildings 2006...
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A trend in facility planning.
Almost no labs or offices are being planned for single scientists. It is all teams or communities. The only question is the size of the cluster and where the group offices go.
- From Tradeline's Research Buildings 2006 Conference
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A post-modification adjustment.
To save energy costs in animal facility modifications in which ventilated cages are introduced, make sure to adjust the room air-change rate down from previous non-ventilated cage operations.
- From Tradeline's Research Buildings 2006 Conference
Learn a...
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A valuable training tool.
Videotape facility commissioning to serve as a training tool for future engineering hires.
What is commissioning?...
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The first step to savings.
To find major energy savings, first look at changing your fumehood standard operating procedures.
Learn how to generate more energy savings through exhaust heat recovery.
Explore fume hoods and lab planning strategies.
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| | 5.10.06
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A strategy for accounting capital depreciation costs.
Going to moveable lab furniture opens up new financial options for the accounting of capital depreciation costs.
Find providers of laboratory furniture in Tradeline's Industry Directory.
Explore strategies for lab equipment planning.
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Save on future modifications.
For a lab renovation, you can retrofit with flexible lab features for the same cost as doing a renovation with those features, but if you renovate “flexible”, future modifications will be done for much less cost.
- From Tradeline's Research B...
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Floor-to-floor height and facility stacking issues.
Multi-floor, multi-disciplinary research buildings don’t “stack” well because space zones change from floor to floor. That means you have to think about unconventional HVAC solutions. Examine the possibility of locating HVAC controllers ...
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A necessary program element.
Collaborative space is a necessary program element. There are many kinds of collaborative space – make use of them all. Don’t build a science building without some sort of eatery plan. Food service is a theme attraction for collaborative scien...
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Glass provides public exposure to science.
There is a strong trend toward more internal visibility and the use of internal glass walls and internal windows. Public exposure to science is a key feature of most new institutional research facilities. That means viewing glass or windows from pedestria...
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Wet biochemistry may be moving to the periphery of research activities.
Wet sinks are being moved to the periphery of labs in the new lab plans. This is a flexibility and cost of construction issue, plus there is a trend toward less wet lab space in research buildings. The long-range forecast is that wet biochemistry is on it...
| | 5.4.06
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A Working Definition.
There is still lack of precision in the general use of the term “open labs.” One working definition is that an open lab is one where what goes on at the ceiling level is separated (disconnected) from what goes on at the floor level.
- From Tr...
| | 5.3.06
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Plan for your research facility's computational needs.
Scientific computing and computational science is growing so that virtually all new or renovated research buildings are having to incorporate larger computer server rooms (with high heat loads) and the systems capacity to install large data-handling netwo...
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The future of lab buildings.
In thinking about the future use of lab buildings, count on instrument proliferation – instruments (research tools) will become the focus of future lab planning and use. For most research environments, what we used to call lab benches have become in...
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