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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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Costs and Implementation Strategies
Count on collaboration features (public spaces of various types and interior visibility) adding $10/sq-ft to construction costs, but this is becoming widely viewed as a necessary element in all new science buildings. Find a way to get an “owner&rdqu...
| | 7.28.06
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Clusters enhance interaction.
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.
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| | 7.25.06
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How does it benefit your institution?
Atriums pay off in three ways:
they are a recruitment tool
they are fundraising features,
they are collaboration features
- From Tradeline’s Science Buildings Canada 2006 Conference
Learn about atriums and natural light in fac...
| | 7.23.06
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A necessity for innovation.
Collaboration has become a necessity to do modern science – it is no longer just a P.R. buzz word, but a reality. Public space and interior visibility are not project luxuries, but rather necessary features for modern collaborative science processes...
| | 7.22.06
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A flexibility strategy.
Consider the money-saving flexibility strategy of putting in an over-capacity utility and air ducting spine with capped-off stub connections for horizontal distribution, but don’t spend the money to run the connectors until needed.
- From Tradelin...
| | 7.20.06
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The two-person team model.
Instead of having a single person speaking for and arbitrating science-user needs, consider having a two-person team – two minds are better than one, there is strength in numbers, and it opens up the time-tested management technique of “good c...
| | 7.19.06
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Tips for the pre-design phase.
Don’t even start to plan unless you have a formalized vision of what the physical infrastructure is to accomplish from the point of view of the institutional mission and the science. Consider using as a project-development tool the concept of a pre-...
| | 7.18.06
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Planning and management strategies.
Cost escalation of 4-5% per year is a reality that will be with us for the foreseeable future. Failure to plan for it is likely to stop your projects. In a cost-escalation market, time is of the essence. Spend time up front to install a fast d...
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