Whether you’re pushing to get more from your existing research buildings, building new, expanding, or addressing back-fill issues, don’t commit to anything until you see the new solutions that you should be programming for.  Two days at this conference will earn your institution millions of dollars in better building plans, cost-savings and avoided mistakes!

• ISSUE:  Newly emerging sciences are going to pull new types of research equipment into your labs along with larger interdisciplinary research teams.  Plan for it. At this conference you’ll pick up the creative space allocation, utility distribution and fit-up solutions to this coming challenge.
  
  
• ISSUE: Your upcoming lab construction or renovation projects will be occupied longest not by your senior scientists, but by your young scientists.  Young scientists don’t want the kind of labs your senior scientists use. Plan for it.  Here you’ll see what you should be building in terms of open labs, lab furniture, equipment rooms, offices, flexibility, visibility, and group spaces.
  
  
• ISSUE: Computational (computer and computer-visualization) space is pushing out wet-lab space.  It is the direction of research.  Plan for it.  Here you’ll see what this space looks like and how it will impact your building plans and the makeup of your research teams.
  
  
• ISSUE: Lab buildings are expensive to build and costly to operate.  Management demands (and needs) more efficient use of these types of buildings. Plan for it. Here you’ll see the new occupancy-efficient building plans and the best engineering concepts for advanced, efficient mechanical systems.
  
  
• ISSUE: In this tight economic environment, any research building project that misses the mark or doesn’t open on schedule is an unacceptable corporate or institutional outcome. There is no excuse. Plan for it.  Here you’ll learn how the leaders are using new contracting and commissioning strategies to make sure they get the right outcomes and move into fully functioning facilities on schedule.

Get ahead of these issues!  They are the 2003 issues that will be making or breaking the success of research programs, the reputations of planning departments, and the careers of project managers.

You and members of your group should be at this conference! Include your key operations people who are going to have to run these facilities so that they can effectively contribute to the planning. Make this meeting an integral part of your 2003-2004 management plan.

I look forward to seeing you in Hilton Head!

Steven L. Westfall
President
Tradeline Inc.

WHO WILL BE PARTICIPATING?

This conference has been designed and produced for project managers, group leaders, research department heads and financial officers who work for research-based corporations and institutions that own and occupy their own buildings. 

In order to maximize your conference experience, Tradeline’s unique attendance policy limits attendance by representatives of firms that provide management consulting, design, construction, contract services or products to this audience to those who are making presentations or exhibiting at this conference.