Forum Session: To get flexibility and efficiency in a mid- to high-rise lab building, plan around research processes

Tall research buildings can achieve high research operation and floor plate efficiencies by designing labs around research processes rather than traditional department-based thinking. In this session you'll learn how that approach is different from legacy lab planning and what results it delivers by examining the planning and construction details of New York City's recently completed 15-story Forensic Biology Laboratory for the OCME. Session leaders demonstrate the use of large, flexible labs in vertical lab-building settings, special strategies for equipment location and redundancy reductions, lab organization models, research workflows, and tactics to increase floor plate efficiency.

This session is approved by the AIA for continuing education credit.
This session also qualifies for HSW credit.

• Robert Masters II, AIA, LEED AP , Associate Principal - Perkins Eastman
  
• John R. Patey, AIA , Principal - Perkins Eastman