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More tasks, fewer heads.
If you have salary, recruitment, or retention problems with trades workers in your facility management organization, consider doing two things: 1) Introduce a higher, multiple-trade, pay scale to allow one worker to make more if he or she can perform more...
| | 10.18.07
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Fit out and commissioning.
If you are building a science building with shell space, plan to do TWO commissioning projects – once when completed with the shelled space, and once when the shell space is fit out.
Learn about M.D. Anderson's use of shell space in their model of ...
| | 10.15.07
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Siting, perception, and space utilization.
One reason to put greenhouses on the roof is to get a true day-night light cycle for your research environment and avoid the incursion of artificial light sources. And if you are planning to use basement space as occupied space, don’t call it a base...
| | 10.14.07
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Planning tips for shared use.
If you are planning a lab module that could work for both teaching and research, standardize on what you need for the teaching application, because in teaching labs lines of sight make that application much harder to accommodate, whereas research layouts ...
| | 10.13.07
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Variables for collaboration.
There are over 20 very specific, named variables in any given science building that affect the level of collaboration that will occur in that building. New research is being done to quantitatively correlate these variables into a Socially Ergonomic Enviro...
| | 10.12.07
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Efficiency in task performance.
The new, new design concept for research space is to minimize the TIME that research staff people spend doing frequent and repeated research tasks. TIME is a function of equipment location, and saving 30 or 60 seconds for a repetitive procedure is a &ldqu...
| | 10.12.07
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Lessons learned on oversight of containment labs.
The Congressional hearing on CDC oversight of select agent laboratories in early October of 2007 indicated valuable lessons learned from biocontainment facility managment:
Improvements in our inspection process.are needed. Some of the improve...
| | 10.11.07
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Definitions and applications.
A common feature of flexible learning environments is rolling tables and chairs that can be configured and re-configured in many different seating and work arrangements. Flexibility is the ability of a facility to accommodate more people or added equipmen...
| | 10.11.07
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Protocol and procedure lapses under investigation.
The CDC suspended select agent research at Texas A&M University in summer of 2007. Penalties for the lapses may include loss of funding, fines, and even criminal penalties. Documented in the CDC's report are violations including:
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| | 10.10.07
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Facility decisions and intellectual property.
University initiatives to create value from research outputs (intellectual property) through linkages with private research institutes and the private sector have significant facilities planning implications involving decisions on personnel collocation, m...
| | 10.10.07
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Design decisions and considerations.
Establish top-down authority for key project and design decisions, or else individual heavyweight faculty people will start dictating special design elements that will cause budget, schedule, and flexibility problems. One way to effect this is to have a d...
| | 10.9.07
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"Green" buildings and project image.
Successful LEED programs, especially those for science buildings, depend on training and educating researchers, staff, and students. “Green” buildings are a big deal with students and have publicity value in student recruitment. If you have &l...
| | 10.9.07
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Core labs are in, large auditoriums are out.
Be clear and get agreement on key elements of the science program you are planning for – for example: faculty/student interaction, small classes, and hands-on lab learning. Such program elements will dictate what you build. Student focused spaces (i...
| | 10.7.07
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Visual appeal and transparency.
Science buildings must have some degree of high-profile “showcase” quality if you intend to encourage, attract, and excite students. Putting science on display is a common feature of contemporary academic science building planning. That means ...
| | 10.6.07
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The right metric of success.
The metric of square feet per student is the wrong metric of success for a science teaching building. The right metrics are: student enrollment, student retention, graduation rates, and grades. Occupancy density (square feet per occupant) also falls down ...
| | 10.5.07
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