Abundant Daylight, Extra-Quiet Labs
With safety as one of its highest priorities, Merck and Co. Inc.'s new Multi-Science Facility (also known as Building 800) incorporates several innovations designed to benefit and inspire researchers occupying the 322,000-sf structure on the corporate campus in Rahway/Linden, N.J.

Custom Sprinkler Heads, Incentives for Closed Sashes
Merck's commitment to scientist safety led to an unusual decision: each of Building 800's fume hoods is equipped with a misting sprinkler head to extinguish potential fires immediately at the source.

Technology Takes Over the Floor in New Research Facility
The Bayer High Technology Center, also referred to as Building 36, is an equipment-intensive research facility in West Haven, Conn. Completed in September 2000, the 14,896-sf structure houses advanced genomic research, bioinformatics, and database mining aimed at identifying and validating new drugs. With its emphasis on constantly advancing high-tech equipment, Building 36 is engineered with reconfiguration in mind.

Online Work Request Program Goes Direct
Harley-Davidson Motor Company's new online request system paves the way to speedy service delivery by removing the barriers between employees who place work orders and those who fill them.

Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College recently completed a 270,000-sf multi-phased project to provide updated research and teaching facilities for a wide array of science departments. The four-building complex includes Steele Laboratory, Wilder Laboratory, Fairchild Tower, and the Fairchild Building.

Customer Satisfaction and Work Order Management Improve
Thomson Financial (TF), a leading provider of electronic information in the financial services industry, is exploiting the Web to streamline its facilities management operations. A new electronic system, implemented for just $1,500 after only 12 weeks of development, efficiently handles the services needs of 2,400 employees housed in the 14 buildings on the company's Boston campus.

New Deliverable is Network Access, Not Bricks and Mortar
The latest initiatives driven by Sun Microsystems' corporate real estate group, Workplace Resources (WR), go beyond the standard bricks-and-mortar focus: providing universal access to the network. Fueled by Sun's vision of ubiquitous computing--which allows anyone to work from anywhere at any time on any device--these efforts seek to apply e-commerce solutions to corporate real estate management.