Bristol-Myers Squibb
Anthony J. Cable, PE – Project Director

To get more research output from existing buildings, rework space plans to put people closer to the science, and design for optimized facility operations! That’s the strategy Bristol-Myers Squibb has employed in their just-completed renovation of two legacy vivarium buildings that co-locates research programs, increases facility capacity, streamlines support, and delivers on sustainable stewardship commitments. Tony Cable reviews architectural/MEP design strategies and identifies benchmarks for space allocation, proximities, housing, and finishes that increase multi-species housing density and maintain accreditation, certification, and GLP standards -- all within the existing facility footprint.

United States Army Research Institute of Chemical Defense (USAMRICD)
LTC Ann Schiavetta, DVM, MS, DACLAM -- Institute Executive Officer

Innovative new vivarium layouts and operating strategies are yielding high operational efficiencies for facilities that accommodate a wide variety of changing research programs and species from rodents to non-human primates. Here, Ann Schiavetta details how such innovations will increase housing capacity, optimize husbandry efficiency, and minimize travel distances for researchers, materials, and animals at USAMRICD’s replacement facility currently under construction. She illustrates a logistical flow design that offers operational efficiency with minimum square footage and lower cost, plus a novel “bridge lab” that promises improved researcher and support staff productivity while minimizing cross-contamination of holding areas.

Oregon Health & Science University
Richard Doughty – Associate Director for Administration
William Morris – Facilities & Property Manager

Facilities for NHP research and support bring a unique set of challenges for effective design, low maintenance requirements, and safe, streamlined operations – for which a new ABSL-3 facility at Oregon Health & Science University provides a benchmark of leading-edge answers. Rick Doughty and Bill Morris identify recent changes to research funding streams and procedures that have dramatically changed traditional metrics for space allocation, adjacencies, support staff ratios, operating plans, and budgets. They also lay out an integrated delivery strategy that minimizes the time and effort overhead endemic to grant-funded (ARRA, C06, and G20) vivarium construction projects.

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Gary L. Keller, DVM – Director, Veterinary Services Division

Animal research facilities operate more efficiently when all user stakeholders -- research personnel, veterinary technicians, and maintenance personnel -- have significant presence around the project table and in mock-up evaluations. Here you’ll see the results of that strategy in the context of the latest vivarium construction project for Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Research Foundation. Gary Keller highlights user-derived innovations that increase research productivity, space utilization, and worker efficiency. He reveals novel equipment and room configuration solutions, longer-life and lower-maintenance flooring materials, and a housing strategy that maximizes capacity per square foot. He also quantifies the anticipated improvement in barrier operations and research quality.

University of Saskatchewan
Cam Ewart -- Associate Director, VIDO/InterVac

University of Saskatchewan’s nearly-completed, multi-species InterVac facility is equipped with multiple technologies and an innovative layout that promise improved efficiency for research, space use, and maintenance. Here Cam Ewart illustrates the new adjacencies and support space allocation strategies that eliminate the costly, redundant infrastructure of traditional designs and return more animal capacity. He examines the ROI and uptime benefits from leading-edge technologies that reduce maintenance costs, maximize uptime, and maintain researcher productivity. He also outlines facility flexibility solutions for small and large animal models that speed room configuration changes and improve research throughput.

Statens Serum Institute, Denmark
Vibeke Halkjær-Knudsen, PhD – Director, Senior Biosafety Officer

Here you will see Statens Serum Institute’s new model for animal facility project delivery that is elegant, efficient, and fast, with innovations that will improve building function and reduce cost. Through a hard-hitting lessons-learned comparison of two recent projects, Vips Halkjaer-Knudsen distills five project "always do's" and ten "never do's" that can make or break your next vivarium upgrade. From budgeting and project team selection to material selection, ABSL-3 containment strategy and testing, she identifies mistakes and innovations that have resulted in a night and day project transformation and improved capability of the resulting facilities.

University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Bradford S. Goodwin, Jr., DVM, DACLAM – Professor and Executive Director, Center for Lab Animal Medicine and Care

The new AALAC Guide for Animal Health & Welfare includes new emergency plan documentation requirements for facilities seeking initial certification or recertification, and these requirements carry facility design and operational implications. Brad Goodwin scopes out updated staffing, training, and budget metrics required for a robust, certifiable emergency preparedness plan, benchmarks for critical swing and flex space availability both on and off-campus, and redundant equipment cost and storage requirements to plan for. He provides rationales for operating budget increases that get buy-in from top management. He also examines the exponential challenges particular to multi-species facilities.

Kansas University Medical Center
Tom Field -- Associate Vice Chancellor for Compliance

The costs of keeping legacy facilities and equipment operational are probably higher than you think, and factoring in the costs of downtime, lost research, and program de-certification creates a strong financial incentive to renovate. Tom Field charts the upward trends of energy, maintenance, and support staff costs, and he identifies the certification challenges that drove KUMC’s $1.5-million investment in animal facility upgrades to control operating costs and preserve the university’s research reputation. He details rationales for decisions on automation, resource management and reporting technology, support staff efficiency features, and strategic redundancies that increase research productivity.

Tradeline, Inc.
Facilitators:
Steve Westfall – President
Derek Westfall – Vice President In this closing session of the conference you’ll learn details from conference members at large on new renovation and expansion projects, operational efficiency initiatives, automation investments, personnel issues, commissioning and certification, experience with new products and systems, energy-use-reduction programs, sustainability decisions, and more. Also, this is an opportunity to put specific questions that you may have to the group for a group response. This session uses audience testimony and big-screen projection of computerized note-taking to build a useful body of information on key and problematical issues. Session notes will be sent to all attendees.

Flad Architects
Steven J. Freson, AIA – Principal
Jon Rynish, LEED AP – Architectural Intern
Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc.
Kevin Fowler – Associate Director, R&D Operations This session is approved for AIA/CES units and qualifies for HSW credit.

Lord, Aeck & Sargent, Inc.
Jerry Percifield, AIA – Principal
DPR Construction, Inc.
Bryan McCaffrey – Project Executive
Georgia Institute of Technology
Laura O’Farrell, DVM, PhD – Director of Animal Resources This session is approved for AIA/CES units and qualifies for HSW credit.

Burt, Hill
David R. Linamen, PE – Principal
Michael J. Reagan, AIA – Principal This session is approved for AIA/CES units and qualifies for HSW and Sustainable Design credit.

SmithGroup, Inc.
H. Michael Smith, AIA, LEED AP – Principal
McG Consulting, LLC
Michael McGarry, PhD - President This session is approved for AIA/CES units and qualifies for HSW credit.

CRB Consulting Engineers, Inc.
Randall L. Poteat, PE, LEED AP – Senior Mechanical Engineer
DPR Construction, Inc.
Bryan McCaffrey – Project Executive This session is approved for AIA/CES units and qualifies for HSW credit.

The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company
Scott Gassen – Project Manager
Affiliated Engineers, Inc.
Joseph A. Limpert, PE – Principal In Charge/Laboratory Planner
University of Florida
August H. Battles, DVM – Director, Animal Care Services This session is approved for AIA/CES units and qualifies for HSW and Sustainable Designcredit.

Research Facilities Design
Lloyd E. L. Fisk, AIA, LEED AP – Laboratory Consultant
Paul Lemestre, PE, LEED AP, MBA – Director of Engineering This session is approved for AIA/CES units and qualifies for HSW and Sustainable Design credit.

STERIS Corporation
John Klostermyer, PhD – VHP Applications Developer
Novartis Pharmaceuticals
Carmine Bianco, MBA, CMAR, RLATg – Head, Animal Care Operations This session is approved for AIA/CES units and qualifies for HSW credit.

The Clark Enersen Partners
Shawn Diederich, PE, LEED AP – Principal
Timothy J. Reynolds, PE – Senior Principal
Andrew G. Stepp – Principal This session is approved for AIA/CES units and qualifies for HSW and Sustainable Design credit.

HDR CUH2A
Charles C. Cassell, AIA – Laboratory and Research Principal
Tom Mistretta, AIA, LEED AP – Laboratory Planner
Michael P. Mottet, LEED AP – Senior Associate, Director of Laboratory Planning This session is approved for AIA/CES units and qualifies for HSW credit.

Payette
Jeffery J. Burke, AIA – Principal
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
David M. Flanagan – Director of Engineering and Infrastructure This session is approved for AIA/CES units and qualifies for HSW credit.

Sika Corporation
Jim Hendley – Healthcare Key Accounts Manager
Oakridge Industries, Inc.
Larry Wimer – President This session is approved for AIA/CES units and qualifies for HSW and Sustainable Designcredit.

Merck Research Laboratories
Nirah H. Shomer, DVM, PhD, DACLAM – Director, Laboratory Animal Resources This session is approved for AIA/CES units and qualifies for HSW credit.

Oregon Health & Science University
Richard Doughty - Associate Director for Administration
Bill Morris - Facilities & Property Manager This session is approved for AIA/CES units and qualifies for HSW credit.

McG Consulting, LLC
Michael McGarry, PhD - President This session is approved for AIA/CES units and qualifies for HSW credit.

Learn here details from the new plans and most recent project examples (modernization and new construction) findings and lessons learned on animal housing, handling, and procedure facilities for farm animals – equipment, materials, personnel safety, barrier and containment schemes, waste processing and disposal, and sustainability measures involving energy, water, and supplies. This session has an appointed discussion leader who has a tentative discussion agenda, but the actual proceedings will come from testimony and questions from the group at large. This session is approved for AIA/CES units and qualifies for HSW credit.

Aquaneering, Inc.
Mark Francis – President This session is approved for AIA/CES units and qualifies for HSW credit.

SoBran, Inc.
Sarah Rovezzi, BS, LATG – Biosafety Assurance Specialist
Melissa A. Williams, BS, LATG – Program Manager, NIAID/CMB This session is approved for AIA/CES units and qualifies for HSW credit.

Genesis Engineers, Inc.
Bernard C. Friel, PE – Principal
Joseph W. O’Donnell, CBCP – Principal This session is approved for AIA/CES units and qualifies for HSW and Sustainable Design credit.