Web-Based Evaluation of Stanford Research Facility is a Benchmark Itself
Conducted in the summer of 2001 at the facility's one-year anniversary, the post-occupancy evaluation of the Center for Clinical Sciences Research (CCSR) was a collaborative effort of the Stanford University School of Medicine's Office of Facilities and Planning Services (OFPS), Stanford's Office of Capital Planning & Management (CP&M), and Strategic Facilities Planning, an Atherton, Calif., firm specializing in programming and planning of facilities for science, health, and education.

Post-Occupancy Evaluation Finds Support for Open Labs, Shared Support
Moving the walls out of a lab can help remove less tangible barriers between researchers. Sharing equipment space, while raising a few concerns about turf, does promote collaboration. And if you want to make building occupants really happy, let them open a window.

Technology Should Be Used as a Tool, Not a Solution
Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) are rapidly gaining attention as a tool to help facilities management organizations streamline the way they do business.

Strategic Facility Planning in the Modern Age
Rapid changes in science and business have created unprecedented new challenges for the designers of modern research facilities. Emerging technologies such as proteomics, combinational chemistry, and nanotechnology demand new approaches to lab design. The drive for globalization further complicates decision making for organizations seeking to expand or develop new operations. To address these issues, facility planners are creating a whole new generation of analytical tools that allow them to make critical decisions objectively.

Oberlin College
Oberlin's new Science Center will house teaching and research space for Biology, Chemistry, Neuroscience, and Physics, as well as a new science library, shared lecture halls, and a commons area.