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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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Is your building operating as it was designed to?
You can save big on energy costs by simply making sure buildings are operating as they were designed to operate and by training people how to use their buildings properly.
Explore a Tradeline report on Design Strategies that Maximize Energy Efficiency in...
| | 5.17.07
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How much can you save?
Construction delivery models that can shorten delivery by a year, get contractor input early on, and streamline project coordination and documentation can cut construction costs by as much as 25%.
- From Tradeline's Research Buildings 2007 Conference
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| | 5.16.07
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Product suggestions for smoother operations.
To reduce turbulence, bothersome noise, and uncomfortable drafts in hood-intensive labs, consider delivering air through a 100% perforated ceiling plenum. To solve the rusting, flaking or decomposition of your chemical fume hood monkey bars (latticew...
| | 5.16.07
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A strategy for change.
The two biggest targets for carbon reduction are transportation and buildings. So, what we are talking about at this conference is a highly visible activity with respect to the public view of carbon emissions.
- From Tradeline's Research Buildings 2007 ...
| | 5.15.07
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Specifications and cost estimates for your core laboratory.
In some cases it makes sense to plan the core facility first and do the rest of the building arount it. In other words, inside-out planning may start with the core facility. Core lab area by themselves can cost 4 to 6 times as much to construct than lab s...
| | 5.14.07
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Design suggestions for space planning.
Leading research organizations are planning new lab buildings on the assumption that less space will be devoted to wet labs. In multi-story lab buildings, consider putting chemistry labs on the top floor to minimize the loss of floor area in the building ...
| | 5.13.07
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A critical element.
A common programming mistake is underestimating the amount of office space in lab buildings. Officing schemes for research buildings are being viewed as critical to the creation of research communities and the social dimension to research. Short on chemic...
| | 5.12.07
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Envisioning tomorrow's lab layout.
Fifteen years from now, new lab areas won’t look like they do today, so plan buildings and infrastructure with this idea in mind. Even now the distinction between labs and lab support is being blurred. A better classification for planning purposes m...
| | 5.11.07
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Tips for fostering collaboration.
The key idea in collaborative, interactive lab buildings is to push people together so that they become aware of what others are doing. Out of the mouths of researchers and senior research directors, we heard that the creation of neighborhoods in building...
| | 5.10.07
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Design trends for interior features.
Interior visibility is the hallmark of contemporary research buildings – and that means lots of interior glass. Up-scale cafés have become so important to research buildings that they are starting to appear at the entry to buildings.
Learn ...
| | 5.9.07
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Implications for benches.
Lab building planning is increasingly having to do with how people interface with “big research machines” and how those same people interface with each other. Lab benches are becoming more like instrument platforms, which should cause some re-...
| | 5.8.07
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Construction options that create savings.
In seeming contradiction to the idea of extreme lab flexibility being achieved with overhead services and no floor penetrations, the idea of floor-mounted bollards as being an extreme flexibility feature has emerged in some very noteworthy projects. This ...
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How your information interface can enhance organizational effectiveness.
For corporate RE and FM organizations, consider putting a professional communication person (or persons) on your staff to make your communications interface (website, management and customer communications, public interaction) more professional and effect...
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