May 05 - May 06, 2008
Boston, MA

Operationally efficient. Integrated.  Flexible. Highly productive. New research facility planning models (new construction and retrofits) are using improved interior plans and robust, flexible system infrastructures to achieve more research program per capital dollar, longer-lived buildings, and lower capital and operating costs. At Tradeline’s 28th annual Research Facilities conference you’ll see the latest examples of up-front thinking, design details, construction cost escalation solutions, energy reduction strategies, and operating criteria for fast-changing interdisciplinary research programs, future research requirements, and cost-effective building operations.

If you have questions email : Research2008@TradelineInc.com or call (925) 254-1744 x12.

April 21 - April 22, 2008
Washington, DC

Plans * Designs * Constuction * Operations
   
    BSL-2, BSL-3, BSL3-Ag, ABSL-3, BPCUs

Tradeline’s 7th annual International Conference on Biocontainment Facilities examines the new biocontainment operating details, project plans, design standards, construction details, and validation and commissioning processes for containment of highly infectious diseases and pathogens. Here you’ll get the details and lessons learned on biocontainment space conversions and upgrades, biocontainment with animals, biocontainment suites integrated into multi-function buildings, specialized lab types, operating protocols and SOPs, successful commissioning strategies, capital costs, and operating budgets.

If you have questions email : BIO2008@TradelineInc.com or call (925) 254-1744 x12.

April 07 - April 08, 2008
San Diego, CA

The new management models for facilities management and capital projects are getting ever more productive by implementing lean processes and eliminating waste. These new models are using less manpower, less capital, less energy, less space, and less time, AND they are producing better outcomes. Attend this conference to learn lean strategic plans, lean management processes, and tools to implement lean processes, including total-cost-of-ownership planning, strategic energy and sustainability planning, organizational structures and staffing and radical new lean project management structures.

If you have questions email : LEAN2008@TradelineInc.com or call (925) 254-1744 x12.

December 03 - December 04, 2007
San Diego, CA

Integrated planning (financial, facilities, and academic program) for integrated programs (research, education, and clinical care)

This academic medical center-focused conference details the new planning models (facilities, academic program, and financial)  that are 1) integrating collaborative, multi-disciplinary, high-productivity processes for medical education, research, and patient care; 2) anticipating advances in medical equipment, research and teaching technology ; 3) delivering more rapid translation of research into patient-focused treatments; 4) creating flexible infrastructures for long-term facility viability; and 5) providing optimum total-spend (capital plus operations) outcomes.

Specifically, you’ll get the details on new plans for the realignment and integration of AMCs, capital program strategies, integrated planning models (facilities, academic program, and financial), space-use and flexibility, consolidated organizational structures, and across-the-board mitigation of costs.

November 12 - November 13, 2007
Hilton Head, SC

 

More animal program capacity per capital dollar. Higher operational efficiency. Lower operating costs. Safer biocontainment operations involving animals. These are the top performance improvement objectives of leading animal research organizations. At Tradeline’s 19th annual Animal Research Facilities conference you’ll see how these outcomes are being achieved in the latest round of construction and renovation initiatives (private sector, academic, and government) with improved environments (people and animals), and more efficient space plans, fit-ups, equipment, mechanical systems, commissioning procedures, and project strategies.

 

October 04 - October 05, 2007
Albuquerque, NM

Tradeline's 19th Annual College and University Science Buildings conference!

Successful academic science programs (leading-edge technology, top people, fast-growing, financially strong) are being built on the fact that modern science buildings are vital tools for leading-edge research and teaching. At Tradeline’s 19th annual College & University Science Buildings conference you’ll learn how new planning models and design concepts, multi-science flexibility features, streamlined project delivery, and facility operating models are producing more science program per capital dollar, lowering operating costs, and creating readily adaptable, long-lived science infrastructures for the future.

June 11 - June 12, 2007
Ottawa, ON, CANADA

Design, construction and operation of research and science teaching facilities

• Interdisciplinary facility plans: high space utilization & long-term viability
• Models for integration of medical research, education and patient care
• Specialty lab designs - vivaria, CL-3, GMP, Nanotech
• Metrics and features for robust core facilities
• Strategies to raise operational efficiency
• Energy use reduction and sustainability
• New capital project development & management models

Get details on the latest findings and lessons learned in planning, designing, building and operating facilities for life sciences, engineering, chemistry, and scientific computing plus highly specialized areas – research and teaching hospitals, biocontainment suites, and vivariums.

May 07 - May 08, 2007
San Diego, CA

Tradeline's 27th Annual Research Buildings conference!

Get the details on the newly emerging models for more compact, more efficient, and more flexible multi- and interdisciplinary research buildings. Learn the latest project scoping and planning rationales, metrics, project delivery methods, and facility operation and management plans for a variety of open-plan lab facilities, new layouts and fit-ups for convertible wet/dry lab space, new types of research tools and equipment, and team-based research processes.

Specifically, you’ll learn:

• Strategic plans for higher space and capital utilization
• Proven, cost-effective flexibility solutions for continually changing programs
• Efficient platforms for multi-discipline, increasingly equipment-intensive research
• Economic decisions for sustainability and energy cost reduction
• High-value outcomes for renovations and upgrades
• New operating paradigms for energy use and cost reduction, and critical system maintenance

 

April 16 - April 17, 2007
St. Petersburg, FL

Total-Cost-of-Ownership Management
• Total-spend, life-cycle asset management strategies
• Business-case-based asset management models
• Integrated Workplace strategies & performance metrics
• Processes that align capital and operations with institutional missions

Facilities Management
• Lean staffing models to benchmark against
• Six-Sigma methods to drive energy costs down
• Data quality improvements that lead to reduced space requirements
• Strategies to make technology initiatives pay off

Capital Project Management
• Radical changes in project team processes and organization
• New project management models and staffing structures
• Front-end project preparation & development strategies
• Capital project management outsourcing models

March 12 - March 13, 2007
San Diego, CA

 

Tradeline's 6th Annual International Conference on Biocontainment Facilities!

Attend this conference to learn new design and construction solutions, benchmark your biocontainment facilities plans and operations, and get the details and lessons learned for successful BSL project outcomes. You'll get the details on:

 

• Operational- and risk-based facility plans
• Multi-pathogen/Multi-protocol programs
• Integrated BSL-lab/animal facilities
• Bioaerosol high-containment facilities
• Containment for vaccine development and bio-manufacturing
• Better commissioning, certification, and validation processes
• Construction cost & contracting strategies
• Operations and maintenance programs

 

November 13 - November 14, 2006

Getting more animal program capacity from limited capital dollars, improving logistical efficiency (cages, materials, and people), lowering operating costs, and implementing BSL-3 for animal operations are the top animal research facility issues being tackled by research institutions across the country. At Tradeline's 18th annual animal research facilities conference you'll see how these outcomes are being achieved in the latest round of construction and renovation initiatives (private sector, academic, and government) with more efficient space plans, cost-effective equipment investments, and efficient mechanical system designs. You'll also examine new initiatives for work environments, worker safety, and waste handling, plus space and fit-up specifications for specific space types, and strategies for animal facility contracting and commissioning.

October 26 - October 27, 2006
San Diego, CA
Here you'll see new breakthrough solutions for getting more college and university science building program (research and teaching) with limited construction dollars. You'll learn how new multi-discipline shared-facilities planning strategies, front-end business and life-cycle cost analysis, user-input processes, and construction contracting formats are yielding high-utilization, high-quality science-building outcomes. Attend Tradeline's 18th academic science buildings conference to assure that you implement the right construction or renovation plan, at the right cost, with the right design details, and with the right overall final performance metrics. Attend to save your institution millions of dollars through new cost-saving options and mistakes avoided for biology, chemistry, biochemistry, biomedical research buildings, nanotechnology facilities, advanced teaching platforms, and more.

July 17 - July 18, 2006
Vancouver, BC
Here Canadian science building owners, architects, and contractors meet to evaluate best practices to achieve more science program per capital dollar, manage project funding processes and develop innovative funding options, and examine cost-effective decision-making on such project-defining issues as long-term flexibility and adaptability, sustainable design, life-cycle planning, energy-use efficiency, facility utilization, and occupancy costs. Attend this conference to learn the cost, space, occupancy, utility, and construction details of open-vs.-conventional research labs, science teaching facilities, product development labs, animal facilities, multi-discipline buildings, shared-facility solutions, biocontainment spaces, non-lab spaces where "science really gets done," and more, plus the facilities operating side of these kinds of facilities.

May 01 - May 02, 2006
Boston, MA

Get the details and lessons learned for open-plan labs, designs for service and maintenance, layouts and fit-ups for wet and dry lab designs, the new research tools and equipment, occupancy and cost metrics, commissioning processes, and more.

Specifically, you’ll learn the planning standards, metrics, features, costs, and decision-making rationales that are being used to deliver:

• Strategic plans for higher space and capital utilization
• Top researcher recruitment features
• Proven, cost-effective flexibility solutions for continually changing programs
• Efficient platforms for multi-discipline, increasingly equipment-intensive research
• Economic decisions for sustainability and energy cost reduction
• High-value outcomes for renovations and upgrades
  
  

April 10 - April 11, 2006
St. Petersburg, FL
Newly emerging sciences are impacting existing buildings and new science building plans with exacting, high-tech requirements for new research tools and equipment, people-spaces, utility and structural infrastructure, and space-specific environmental controls. Learn what these requirements are and what cost-effective solutions look like for emerging science areas such as the new imaging and characterization technologies; bio-nano, nano-biomedical, and nano-medicine; genomics; high-tech biotech; atomic-level structures (nano-materials, electronics, and devices); bioinformatics; computational biology and chemistry; structural biology; proteomics; advanced chemical synthesis; and more. Here you'll learn the space planning standards, suite fit-ups, building retrofit strategies, and costs for integrating these high-performance spaces into overall building envelopes and infrastructures.

March 27 - March 28, 2006
St. Petersburg, FL

The worldwide push to develop more research capacity for human, animal, and crop protection from highly infectious diseases and pathogens has five big, pressing biocontainment facility implications:

• Moving more animal research operations inside BSL perimeters and protocols
• Cost-effectively converting and upgrading space to BSL-rated use
• Sorting out certification, validation, and commissioning issues
• Developing efficient BSL facility solutions for people, materials, and safety SOPs
• Getting the design and construction details right for BSL space in multi-function buildings

Attend this conference to learn the new cost-effective solutions, benchmark your biocontainment facilities plans, and get the details and lessons learned for successful BSL project outcomes.

March 20 - March 21, 2006
Hilton Head, SC

The new management and business models for capital projects and facilities management are leaner, more streamlined, more leveraged, more highly automated, lower-cost, more efficient, and increasingly data-driven. Attend this conference to learn the new strategic thinking, processes, and tools that are raising the productivity of capital; lowering overall infrastructure expense; and moving corporate and institutional strategies toward a more integrated approach to infrastructure planning and management (capital and operations). Here you'll learn the details of:

• Total-spend strategic analysis and planning
• Strategies for combating cost-escalation
• Streamlined processes
• Powerful new tools for data gathering and data quality assurance
• Performance metrics and measurement "dashboards"

December 12 - December 13, 2005
St. Petersburg, FL
Attend Tradeline's 17th annual academic science buildings conference to discover the most modern planning, design, construction, and renovation solutions for your science facilities and get more program with limited capital dollars. Twenty-five conference sessions illustrate the latest decision-making, processes, standards, and costs involved with: >Research-based science teaching facilities >Life-science buildings >Interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary research buildings >Mixed-space buildings (engineering, biology, chemistry, computational, animals) >BSL-rated space upgrades >Translational research facilities >Nanotech spaces and fit-ups >Strategies to save construction dollars >Streamlined management of teams and user involvement >Business case analysis for science buildings

November 17 - November 18, 2005

Tradeline's 17th annual animal research facilities conference focuses on the new decision-making for cost-efficient facilities -- How operating costs are shaping decisions on projects, and how project investments and construction cost-shaving decisions are impacting operating costs. Here you'll examine plans and actual performance results for BSL-3 animal research facilities, new room-rack/mechanical-system solutions, high space-utilization schemes, animal imaging suites, high-throughput behavioral core facilities, automation initiatives, cage and cage-wash logistics, storage space solutions, and investments in environmental quality. Findings apply both to new buildings that contain animal facilities and to animal facility upgrade projects.

August 01 - August 02, 2005
San Diego, CA
Leading-edge management models for capital projects and facilities management services are being built on four new management developments: 1) total-spend strategic analysis and planning, 2) more efficient contracting methods, 3) streamlined management processes, and 4) powerful new tools for data gathering, data quality assurance, and performance metrics. These new models are proving highly effective in delivering higher corporate and institutional productivity of capital, and lower overall infrastructure expense. At this conference you'll learn the emerging best practices, metrics, management streamlining tools, and cost-reduction strategies that are being deployed in the planning and delivery of capital projects and facilities services.

May 30 - May 31, 2005
Ottawa, ON, CANADA
A host of new Canadian research and science teaching facilities demonstrate innovative, cost-effective solutions for a broad spectrum of newly emerging and fast-changing science disciplines. Attend this first trans-Canada science buildings conference to learn how scientific vision, performance criteria, design concepts, and building operations plans are shaping Canadian project decision-making on: 1. Costs & budgets 2. Performance metrics 3. Flexibility features 4. Efficient space utilization 5. Multi-discipline, multi-tenant building solutions 6. Biocontainment, vivariums and other specialty spaces 7. Sustainable ("green") design 8. Mechanical and electrical systems 9. Operations & maintenance

April 18 - April 19, 2005
St. Petersburg, FL
The new planning model for research buildings (new construction,large-scale renovations, and overall research facilities strategies) is based on these features: >Multi-disciplinary >Multi-tenant >Flexible lab plans >Shared, efficient core facilities >High space-use efficiency >Lower operating and maintenance costs Attend this highly acclaimed annual planning conference (now in its 23rd year) to learn how these features are now being achieved at lower cost.

April 04 - April 05, 2005
San Francisco, CA
The major world-wide push to fund more research, vaccine development, and clinical capacity for addressing infectious diseases and pathogens is driving a new round of cost-effective solutions for BSL-rated facilities. Attend this conference to learn what the new plans look like and make project decisions about: >BSL facilities involving vivaria >Commissioning & certification standards >Space conversions and upgrades for BSL-rated research >BSL suites in multi-function buildings >cGMP spaces & systems for therapeutic products >Biosecurity systems >Equipment planning >Construction details and their cost impacts >Operations and maintenance

March 14 - March 15, 2005
St. Petersburg, FL
Technically complex facilities (research buildings, development and test facilities, large-scale data centers, and advanced manufacturing plants) require very special models for facilities management. Operating costs are high, user requirements are exacting, operating reliability is critical, and the facility services required are technically sophisticated. What are the opportunities for cost and performance improvements for these kinds of facilities and missions?

December 08 - December 10, 2004

The up-front planning effort for a large capital project is a far, far different enterprise than the small-project process. It is an exponentially greater undertaking involving totally different complexities and risks, not simply a linear scale-up of small project management models. Large capital projects are more visible, encompass more potentially divergent stakeholder interests, involve more communication channels and decision nodes, impact more public and governmental interests, encounter greater political activity, have more technical uncertainties, are harder to control, and are more likely to fall victim to unrealistic financial and schedule goals.

November 10 - November 13, 2004

Whether you're setting plans for new science-building construction or renovation projects, formulating new science building standards and guidelines, or pushing to get more utilization from existing research and science teaching facilities, don't sign off on anything until you see the new plans, features, and numbers! Attend this conference to make sure you build the right facility and to save your institution millions of dollars through new cost-saving options and investment mistakes avoided.

August 14 - August 16, 2004

Over the summer, Cornell University will continue to move into one of the first-to-be-completed new nanotech research buildings in the country in which the entire building is dedicated to trans-discipline nanotech research involving materials, biotechnology and electronics. Come and see this new $63-million building and learn more about the design and construction decisions on research tools, space allocations, utility systems, environmental control, and building structure. This conference will address how the design, construction and operational challenges of these kinds of buildings are being resolved.

August 01 - August 04, 2004

Tradeline's 16th annual animal research facilities conference focuses on: 1) Solutions to the growing problem of space, 2) Cost reduction strategies, 3) The hot facilities issues on the horizon, and 4) New benchmarks for project metrics and features. Here you'll see the latest project and planning examples for BSL-2/3 space for animals, commissioning, animal imaging facilities, room/rack optimization, behavioral suites, and more. Pre- and post-conference site tours will be offered.

May 02 - May 04, 2004
Scottsdale, AZ
Which management processes are yielding the shortest possible lines of communications, the least amount of wasted administrative overhead, the highest data integrity, the fastest response times, the lowest number of call-backs, the lowest costs, and the highest customer satisfaction? Here you'll pick up the tools, innovative ideas, and metrics that are shaping new integrated management systems both at the management and operations level. You'll examine process analysis and change initiatives, managing processes by the numbers, cost-effective technology strategies, and more.

April 18 - April 20, 2004

Four high-priority facility planning and operating issues for biocontainment are the focus of this year's conference: 1) security and biosecurity, 2) cost-effective project solutions, 3) design and construction details, and 4) solutions for achieving facility flexibility. These issues are detailed for a variety of specific applications, such as vivaria and animal research facilities, plant and insect research facilities, biomedical labs, and containment in large animal research facilities. New technologies for decontamination, waste disposal, commissioning, and security systems are also examined.

March 21 - March 24, 2004

Five bottom-line focus areas for research buildings dominate this year's conference agenda: 1) flexible/adaptable research space, 2) interdisciplinary science, 3) efficient use of capital, 4) solving special project missions, and 5) examples of the new, cost-effective projects. At this highly acclaimed annual planning meeting, now in its 22nd year, you'll see and benchmark against the latest plans for scoping out new construction and expansion programs, as well as bringing existing lab facilities up to current research and technology standards.

November 16 - November 18, 2003

According to Tradeline's latest national survey of facilities managers and corporate real estate executives, critical performance problems still need to be solved in preparation for the coming 2004-2005 economy. They are: Underutilized assets; Incomplete security plans; and fragmented management systems. At this conference you'll get the details on the newly emerging management models that are successfully delivering: · Improved asset utilization · Security for operations, assets, and personnel · Integrated management systems, and · Superior financial performance. These management models illustrate new utilization benchmarks and financial targets, space consolidation standards, ISO and Six Sigma management practices, databases and application programs, and innovative cost-reducing organizational structures.

November 05 - November 07, 2003

Attend Tradeline's 15th annual college and university facilities conference to pick up the latest in innovative facility concepts, build on the plans and lessons learned of others, and make a leap forward in your own program planning. Here, you'll collect the latest planning and design concepts for getting more use from existing facilities and scoping out new construction and expansion projects for state-of-the-art academic research and science facilities. You'll also benchmark your institution on overall facilities infrastructure management strategies and costs, and you'll learn what is working and what isn't. Make this conference an integral part of your group's 2004-5 facilities planning agenda.

October 08 - October 10, 2003
San Antonio, TX
Newly emerging nano-scale research programs in the fields of materials, biotechnology and electronics promise big breakthroughs for the pharmaceutical, chemical, defense, and data and communications industries. This new wave of science will require special facility types and lab fitups. Here you'll learn about the specialized types of nanotechnology equipment to plan for along with the corresponding space requirements, utility demands, environmental controls and structural criteria. Session leaders illustrate new nanotechnology facility plans that are in the pipeline involving new construction and lab retrofits, plus lessons learned and the impacts on overall building plans, space utilization, and costs.

August 03 - August 05, 2003

Attend Tradeline's 15th annual animal research facilities conference to benchmark your animal facilities plans and strategies against the latest cost-effective solutions in the industry. Here, you'll pick up the new metrics, planning standards and rationales that are being applied to facility expansions, new construction, facility utilization improvement initiatives, improved work conditions, lower costs, and improved operational performance. You'll get the details on the newest examples of just-completed projects as well as the results of post-occupancy reviews for recently built facilities, renovation projects, expansions, technology investments and management improvement initiatives. These details involve new space plans, animal density standards, air handling, labor and automation, worker health and safety, materials and hardware, and support space.

May 04 - May 06, 2003
Hilton Head, SC
Rapidly expanding research activity around the world involving life-threatening and agriculture-destroying microbial pathogens has created a sudden need for more BSL3, BSL3-Ag and BSL4 research space and for the retrofitting of old space up to current BSL design standards. This conference takes the next step beyond Tradeline's 2002 conference on this subject by examining best practices on such details as space plans, control systems, system redundancy and risk quantification, air handling and filtration methods, the selection of hardware and materials, waste disposal, security and biosecurity, facility commissioning strategies, decontamination, and the modeling of construction and operational costs.

April 06 - April 08, 2003
Hilton Head, SC
Four powerful factors are forging new specifications, standards and plans for research space: 1) The interdisciplinary team approach to research; 2) The rapid emergence of new fields of science; 3) The push for more efficient research facilities; and 4) The pressure for higher quality projects (more efficient processes, better outcomes). At this highly acclaimed annual planning conference series, now in its 21st year, you?ll see and benchmark against the latest plans for new research labs and bringing existing lab facilities up to current research and technology standards, as well as scoping out new construction and expansion programs. You?ll get the planning specifics, and you?ll learn the new ideas that are working and those that are not.

March 23 - March 25, 2003

Facilities management systems are now suddenly in the spotlight as a top management and financial priority at colleges, universities and medical schools across the country. The issues are cost reduction and streamlining ? and the tools, resources, metrics, process changes, organizational shifts, and innovative ideas that are necessary to make that happen. If cost reduction and streamlining are high on your management agenda, this is a ?must attend? planning meeting for you and your key management people (facilities, operations, financial and IT). Two days at this conference will provide a blueprint for annual savings amounting to millions of dollars.

November 03 - November 05, 2002

Attend Tradeline?s 14th annual animal research facilities conference to benchmark your upcoming animal facility initiatives against the latest cost-effective solutions for expanding existing facilities, building new space, increasing facility utilization, improving work conditions, cutting costs and raising operating standards. Here you?ll learn about new plans just coming off of the drawing boards for new construction projects, renovations, expansions, technology investments and management improvement initiatives involving changes in transgenic mouse facilities, BL-rated space, air handling, people-access and circulation, automation, worker health and safety, and support space.

October 20 - October 22, 2002
San Diego, CA
This conference examines the latest findings on streamlining facilities management processes to cut costs, raise service quality, and manage change. It examines new methodologies for analyzing and changing FM processes, improving strategic planning procedures, and measuring management performance. It will also address evaluating the organizational and cost implications of streamlining initiatives, using new tools and technologies to raise FM productivity, improving work-order systems, and managing large numbers of small capital projects. Attend this leading-edge conference to pick up strategic action items that will dramatically improve your facilities management performance.

October 03 - October 05, 2002
San Antonio, TX
As a "conference within a conference" attendees interested in Nanotechnology Labs have the option to register separately for just the Friday sessions and the Saturday Symposium focusing on the latest in lab planning and management for nanotechnology research. Click here to register for the Friday and Saturday sessions only.

October 02 - October 05, 2002
San Antonio, TX
Sign up using this registration link and you'll be able to attend the 2 day College and University Facilities conference PLUS the added Saturday symposium.

October 02 - October 04, 2002
San Antonio, TX
Attend Tradeline's 14th annual college and university facilities conference to pick up innovative facility concepts from academic institutions across the country, build on the plans and lessons learned of others, and make a leap forward in your own planning efforts. Here, you'll learn about the latest, still-on-the-drawing-boards design concepts and building specifications for cost-effective learning environments and state-of-the-art research facilities, plus lessons learned on which space, fit-up and overall building concepts are working and which aren't. Make this conference an integral part of your group's 2003 facilities planning agenda. Click here to register for the 2 day College & University facilities meeting.

August 04 - August 06, 2002
San Diego, CA
This conference examines the newly emerging financial strategies, tools, and management approaches for cutting corporate RE costs, managing change, and building cost-effective, enterprise-wide infrastructure service delivery systems. It illustrates analytical, management and planning techniques for optimizing bottom-line business value. And it addresses such special management issues as: workforce distribution and IT networking, technology applications, space consolidation programs, and plans for mission-critical facilities. This is an opportunity to benchmark your entire management program against the new initiatives and processes being implemented by industry leaders.

April 21 - April 23, 2002
San Antonio, TX
The purpose of this conference is to bring together into a single forum a broad spectrum of detailed findings, best practices, and mistakes-to-avoid for bio-containment facilities and to produce a set of guidelines and principles for bio-containment facility design, construction and operations. The focus of this conference will be on the details and the "how to's" for both constructing these types of facilities and operating them.

April 07 - April 09, 2002
Hilton Head, SC
Here you'll examine the latest initiatives, lessons learned, and operating results for firms and institutions that are leading the pack in deploying facilities management software systems, information integration concepts, Web/Intranet-based technologies, and wireless hand-helds. You'll learn how these systems are cutting costs and raising the quality of strategic facilities planning, space management, work-order processing, project management, service delivery, and more. You'll also learn how investments in management systems are being justified, what application packages are being used, and what user interface concepts are working.

March 17 - March 20, 2002
San Diego, CA
This highly acclaimed annual planning conference series, now in its 20th year, is the place to see and benchmark against the latest plans, specifications and concepts for cost-effective research buildings. It reveals the new directions in building features, fit-ups, overall plans, costs and project delivery methods. This year's conference highlights designs and initiatives for improved space utilization, advanced systems, the use of new planning tools, and higher-performing research environments. This includes plans for highly instrumented labs, new strategies for officing and sit-down space, plans for interactive team research, and approaches to cutting occupancy costs.

December 02 - December 04, 2001
San Diego, CA
At this conference you'll learn how to speed up, simplify and cut the costs of high-impact facilities management processes. You'll examine the latest initiatives and programs of leading corporations across the country involving new service models, organization structures, processes and technology applications that are proving effective in doing more with fewer resources and improving customer satisfaction. One-stop-shopping service delivery, the use of PDAs, Web-based technologies, measurement systems, and analytical tools for planning and decision-making are among the subjects covered.

November 11 - November 14, 2001
San Diego, CA
Higher-education business initiatives will impact standards for science buildings, classrooms, overall campus plans and facilities management programs. This conference details state-of-the-art concepts for new construction projects, initiatives for raising space utilization, techniques for streamlining facilities services, programs for creating technologically-advanced learning and research environments, and strategies for cutting facilities costs.

August 05 - August 07, 2001
San Diego, CA
The leading U.S. corporations today are those that are aggressively applying e-business technologies to improve their internal operations. Facilities and RE management functions are high-yield candidates for such e-business initiatives. Here you'll learn how FM e-business programs are being cost-justified, planned and managed, as well as what decisions are being made on technology options, scale and phasing, and how technical, political and economic barriers are being overcome.

April 29 - May 01, 2001
Hilton Head, SC
What goes on in lab buildings and how those buildings are planned has all changed. Here you'll learn the new research building planning and management models to drive occupancy costs down, incorporate new visions of what constitutes research space, and implement more efficient management processes for putting together research building projects. Sessions distill findings on buildings of all types -- chemistry, biochem, dry-sciences, academic lab buildings and buildings with animal facilities.

April 01 - April 03, 2001
San Diego, CA
Speed has emerged as a critical new metric for facilities management functions, and fast-moving, big corporate changes are shaping FM management priorities. Here you'll learn about new tools, processes and management concepts for addressing these two overarching management drivers of speed and change. Sessions address: speeding up FM processes; responding quickly to mission-critical programs; and planning and managing the facilities and RE aspects of mergers, rapid growth and corporate transformations.

December 10 - December 12, 2000
San Diego, CA
Here you'll learn how corporations are combining corporate policy, facilities management processes, standards, internal staff, vendors, software packages, new Web-based technologies, organizational concepts, and measurement systems to drive FM costs down and raise service quality:. You?ll examine particular initiatives, principles and processes that are proving successful in the management of corporate campuses and geographically-dispersed facilities portfolios.

November 28 - November 30, 2000
San Diego, CA
Facilities groups in R&D and High-Tech industries currently face management challenges on four fronts: (1) Respond to major, fast-moving organizational changes, (2) Drive occupancy costs down even further, (3) Run a diverse portfolio of capital projects more efficiently, and (4) Streamline overall facilities management processes. Here you?ll examine new tools, policies, information technologies, management practices and facility plans that are proving successful on all four fronts.

November 08 - November 10, 2000
San Diego, CA
Higher-education business initiatives will impact standards for science buildings, classrooms, overall campus plans and facilities management programs. This conference details state-of-the-art concepts for new construction projects, initiatives for raising space utilization, techniques for streamlining facilities services, programs for creating technologically-advanced learning and research environments, and strategies for cutting facilities costs.

October 15 - October 17, 2000
Hilton Head, SC
The e-business systems rapidly developing today are profoundly changing the facilities management world of tomorrow! Attend the leading e-business conference for facilities professionals and learn how to implement successful, cost-effective e-business initiatives that will radically improve your facilities management model.

April 30 - May 02, 2000
San Diego, CA
With the right measurement models, information gathering tools and analytical methods, you can forge effective strategic facilities initiatives for everything from long-range facilities planning, cost-cutting, new service delivery models and alternative officing to working through corporate mergers and managing outsource vendors. That's what this conference is about. How can you use performance measures and benchmarking to design and implement strategic facilities initiatives?

April 02 - April 04, 2000
San Antonio, TX
New research paradigms and a new generation of researchers are opening the door to radically different, lower-cost concepts lab space, research work environment, overall building plans and facility management. Here you?ll learn about plans and programs for achieving higher occupancy densities, higher space utilization and lower occupancy costs for research buildings and campuses that house a mix of office space, wet and dry lab operations, animal facilities, scale-up space and flex-space.

March 19 - March 22, 2000
Hilton Head, SC
This meeting is for senior facilities managers who are responsible for initiating facilities policies and programs for their corporations and institutions. Here you?ll analyze facility planning processes, examine innovative organization models, learn about approaches to corporate-wide facilities operations, and pick up new management approaches to driving costs down and responding to changing corporate structures.