Proper Planning Results in Significant Cost Savings
Designing research facilities to operate at a maximum level of efficiency requires attention to special features that can result in substantial savings in energy costs. The amount of energy needed to operate a lab may be five to 10 times higher than the usage required in an office building of similar size. By including specific design principles in the planning stages and using existing technology, new science buildings can result in a reduction of between 30 and 50 percent in energy costs.

Center is on Track to be the Greenest Academic Engineering Building in the Nation
The Oregon State University (OSU) College of Engineering's drive to become one of the nation's top-25 engineering programs is resulting in major momentum in the form of a new, high-tech engineering center located at the heart of campus. The College of Engineering emphasizes highly collaborative research to solve global problems.

Oregon State University
The Kelley Engineering Center at Oregon State University is the first academic education building on the West Coast to receive LEED-Gold certification. This high-tech engineering center is a major element in the College of Engineering's drive to become one of the nation's top-25 engineering programs.

The Fast-tracked, $85-million Natural Science and Engineering Research Laboratory Opens for Occupancy
A few dozen faculty, students, and post-docs in the natural sciences and engineering spent their holiday break moving into a new, 192,000-sf research center rising from a freshly developed quadrant of the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) campus.

Manufacturing Pharmaceuticals for Clinical Trials
The University of Kentucky dedicated its $17-million Center for Pharmaceutical Science and Technology (CPST) in May 2006 and the facility is currently undergoing FDA validation. The 20,000-sf building at the University's Coldstream Research Campus expands the CPST's manufacturing capabilities from its on-campus location where it has been operating since 1986. The CPST is a fully integrated method development, formulation development and GMP pharmaceutical manufacturing operation. The on-campus location will continue to serve clients with non-sterile clinical supply manufacturing, while the new facility offers sterile manufacturing of clinical-trial quantities of injectables, liquids and topicals.

University of Texas, Dallas
The 192,000-sf Natural Science and Engineering Research Building is part of the University of Texas at Dallas' investment in expanding the campus infrastructure to become one of the nation's top research institutes. It is the second largest building on campus and includes offices for PIs, open cubicles for grad students and post-docs, and multiple interaction areas. The research zones are entirely dedicated to engineering and physical sciences.

Planning for the Future Instrument Factor
The proliferation of bench-mounted instruments and large imaging tools now essential for conducting groundbreaking research is driving a new approach to lab design as facility planners increasingly opt for solutions based on equipment adaptability. According to analysts at global architecture firm Burt Hill, imaging, metrology, and computing instruments are the primary enablers of current and future research. In order to avoid research limitations or expensive renovations, it is critical that programming for new leading-edge facilities take into account the "future instrument factor."

Metrics for Evolving Structures and Merging Facilities
Working from the assumption that multi-disciplinary buildings are part of an overall research strategy, principals at Boston-based Wilson Architects conducted a survey of 10 significant new facilities to determine which factors are most important in the creation of inter-disciplinary labs. Users and facility managers were surveyed on a set of 10 metrics, ranging from adaptability to computing power and aesthetic.

World-Class Design Accommodates Latest Science and Engineering Studies
The story of the University of Houston's Science and Engineering Research and Classroom Complex (SERCC) begins with the need to replace an outdated chemistry building and ends with a triumph over the eternal conflict between design and desire.

Interaction and Flexibility Incorporated Into Design
The BIO5 Institute at the University of Arizona is positioned for continued success in bioscience research with the construction of two interconnected facilities designed to create a nucleus of interdisciplinary productivity. The mission of the BIO5 Institute, launched in 2001, is to conduct research in the areas of society's most complex biological issues, including disease and hunger.

University of Houston
The University of Houston's Science and Engineering Research and Classroom Complex (SERCC) began with the need to replace an outdated chemistry building and changed to accommodate a broader spectrum of researchers and students, and to ensure the new building would support the University's research in bio-nanotechnology, DNA chips, protein chips, synthetic medicinal chemistry, drug design, nanolithography, and optoelectronics.

Arriva Pharmaceuticals
Arriva Pharmaceuticals develops recombinant protein therapeutics toward the treatment of various pulmonary/respiratory indications.

Genentech
This 36,000-sf warehouse renovation consolidates the shipping and receiving activities for Genentech's main campus.

Gilead Sciences
Gilead is a leader in the development of small molecule therapeutics for the treatment of infectious diseases.

Gilead Sciences
Gilead is a leader in the development of small molecule therapeutics for the treatment of infectious diseases.

Novartis AG
Novartis' Building D is a 29,000-sf, two-story building located at the southern end of the Emeryville, Calif., campus.

Sun Microsystems
This renovation converts office space into a 11,000-sf customer demonstration lab and an adjacent 7,000-sf mission critical server testing lab.

Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
The new 12,400-sf morgue, autopsy, and clinical laboratories are in the basement of the SCVMC Ancillary Building.

Shriners Organization
Replacing an outdated, undersized hospital in Mexico City, the new Hospital Shriners Para Niños provides comprehensive orthopedic services to the children of Latin America at no cost to patients.

Pfizer Inc.
Pfizer's new Clinical Research Unit is a 62,500-sf, three-story research facility that includes clinical space, laboratories, pharmacy, offices, and interactive and support facilities.

Lakeland Regional Health System
This project entails 36,900 sf of additions and 67,000 sf in renovations to the Department of Surgery, a new outpatient clinic, imaging department additions and renovations, birthing unit renovations, and nursing unit renovations.

Lakeland Regional Health System
With a need to consolidate outpatient services and a commitment to the ideals of a "healing environment", Lakeland Regional Healthcare System initiated its first freestanding ambulatory care center as part of a 90-acre "Health Park".

University of Massachusetts Medical Center
This project included renovation of five cardiac cath treatment rooms, associated clinical and patient support spaces, and patient prep/holding suite with 21 bays.

Kingston Hospital
This project is a 1½-story addition alongside of a six-story existing hospital wing whose location allows for skylights and windows, as well as a direct entry from the exterior for outpatients.