Canadian Facility Will Feature Innovations for Clinical Research and Treatment
The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (WRHA) in Manitoba, Canada, is taking a proactive stance toward healthcare by constructing a world-class facility aimed at creating scientific breakthroughs.

Building Infrastructure for the Future of Global Research
The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), an independent non-profit organization created by the government of Canada to fund the country's research infrastructure, is holding its fifth major competition, the winners of which will be announced in November. Funding in two areas—the Leading Edge Fund and the New Initiatives Fund—totaling more than $325 million will help provide the tools and infrastructure necessary to support Canada's advanced scientific initiatives in the new millennia.

Effective Facility Design Can Enhance Bench to Bedside Research Applications
Translational medical research focuses on how to take bench research findings and translate these new discoveries into outcomes that result in improved patient care. The design challenge is to create facilities that accommodate and encourage this research approach, which aims to discover the root causes of diseases, rather than just treat symptoms.

Flexibility Essential in Creating Contemporary Research Facilities
When an academic institution decides to expand and enhance by adding new campus buildings, strategy is a must, especially when those buildings require special features or are designed for user groups yet to exist. A strong vision developed by the institution helps to manage the building process and to make decisions when budgetary issues come up, as they inevitably do.

Cost-Effective Solutions for Achieving Environmentally Friendly Labs
The implementation of sustainable design strategies plays a key role in the successful construction and operation of contemporary research facilities in Canada. In fact, Canadian-based architects believe state-of-the-art laboratory facilities that incorporate sustainable design elements provide value for the owner and contribute to the environment in a positive manner.

Features of Research Facilities Can Steer Decision-Making for Recruiting Talent
Vying for top scientific talent to staff research facilities throughout the United States is often a difficult task by its very nature. Determining which features of the facility should be showcased for recruitment purposes plays an important role in attracting the most qualified researchers. When it comes to measuring the importance of these features, the private-sector and academic research worlds are not always on the same wavelength.

Evidence Yields Impartial Understanding of Project Scope
Forensic analysis is not just for crime scene investigators; the meticulous process is just as useful in determining the scope of a facility upgrade.

Solutions Require Understanding of Instrumentation Needs
Gone are the days of the "physics building" and "chemistry building," where interaction between disciplines might have been tolerated but certainly was not encouraged. Today, collaborative, interdisciplinary research is the only way for scientists to approach the complex problems they are striving to untangle. Research buildings are designed less for the needs of specific researchers, and more for instruments to collect their data and the computers to store and analyze it.

Mixing and Matching Components is One Solution
Accounting for the diverse mechanical requirements within a multidisciplinary facility is like designing separate buildings within the same shell. Lab spaces require advanced HVAC systems that can move an enormous amount of air without recirculating any of it. Conversely, ventilating office space can use as much as 85 percent recirculated air.

Brown University
Faced with limited opportunities for expansion on campus, Brown University turned to nearby commercial properties to solve a pressing need and to create their first off-campus facility for their growing life sciences research program.

Clark University
A new science quadrangle expands this traditional urban campus, creating a distinct image and providing for future growth. Three planned buildings define this significant open space, extend an important campus axis, and lead new development across a previous campus boundary. In addition, this project ensures continued science strength at this historic research university, where Robert Goddard invented modern rockets and Sigmund Freud made his one and only U.S. appearance.

University of Central Florida
The University of Central Florida (UCF) recently opened its new $8 million Health Center.

University of Texas, San Antonio
The new, $84-million Biotechnology, Sciences and Engineering Building (BSEB) is a flagship research facility that has become a campus gateway located prominently at the southern edge of the University of Texas at San Antonio's "1604" main campus. The 216,000-sf, five-story atrium building fosters interdisciplinary research and collaboration among various sciences and engineering programs. It is designed to house research and teaching laboratories for life sciences and chemistry; laboratory spaces for civil and electrical engineering; a 9,000-sf vivarium; and offices for graduate students, faculty, department heads, and the deans of both science and engineering.

University of Michigan
The Computer Science and Engineering building accommodates faculty offices, research labs, and teaching spaces on the North Campus of the University of Michigan. The building is set into a slope that serves to link the upper level at the north of the site with the lower level some 30 feet below. Two classrooms, a computer lab, and a range of building services are set into the slope, sheltered by the earth, which acts as a thermal governor, reducing the demand on mechanical systems to moderate temperature. In addition, setting portions of the building into the slope reduces the mass of the building on the site. A series of terraced courtyards soften the slope, providing landscaped gardens. A brise-soliel ‘grid' on the exterior walls, along with an associated glass shade, substantially reduce the solar energy striking the building, thereby reducing the demand for cooling.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory provides an identity and recognition for the National Center for Infectious Diseases that reflects the values and importance of their mission. Scientists working in this new facility support the CDC's Bioterrorism Program, the Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, the Special Pathogens Branch, the Division of AIDS, STD and TB Laboratory Research, and the Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases.