Forum Session: The big transformation in facility plans for research and science teaching

Interaction and collaboration, core facilities, life-cycle planning, codes and regulations. Interdisciplinary research programs and multi-discipline, teaching and research occupancy models are causing a radical transformation in research and science teaching buildings. Here, session leaders examine the programming, planning, and design criteria of two such buildings -- the 18,000-sm University of Saskatchewan Academic Health Sciences Centre, and the 56,300-sm University of Alberta Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science (CCIS). They illustrate different solutions for interaction and collaboration spaces, large-scale core facilities, life-cycle planning rationales for capital project decisions, and approaches to new issues in codes and regulations.

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

• Mark A. Corey, AIA , Principal - Flad & Associates