Schematic Planning Facilitates Teaching Methods of Today and Tomorrow
Providing an educational environment that encourages students to study science at Grinnell College is part of an entrepreneurial vision that began in 1988 with comprehensive plans to upgrade the Robert N. Noyce '49 Science Center. The addition-renovation project, which was completed in two phases, was driven by changes in teaching pedagogy and a need to provide additional space to accommodate a growing number of programs, students, and faculty members. The private liberal arts college in Iowa is home to 1,600 students with a faculty of 165.

Ronald McDonald House Charities
The new Ronald McDonald House of Austin and Central Texas, which is the first "green" Ronald McDonald House in the world, has achieved another milestone--it has received LEED-platinum certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. It is the first building in the city of Austin and the third building in the state of Texas to be built to LEED-Platinum standards.

Planning Process Involves Integrated, Multiple-Stakeholder Programs and Facilities
The Health Sciences Learning Center at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health is a superlative example of what can be achieved when multiple stakeholders strive towards a common vision. Although the project involved a diverse group of parties, each with its own interests, they were united in understanding the need to create a facility that supports an integrated, case-based, and problem-based curriculum where students work in interdisciplinary teams to solve problems.

First New Science Building in Almost 20 Years will be a Campus Link When Completed
Columbia University is in the midst of a construction project to build a new Interdisciplinary Science Building on its space-impacted campus. The facility, on track for a 2010 completion, will enhance the University's science program and link other areas of the urban campus.

about Lean Facilities Management and Capital Projects
Recorded testimony from conference participants at recent Tradeline Lean Facilities conferences.

State University of New York, Buffalo
The new $131-million Buffalo Life Sciences Center (BLSC) is designed to transform not just the city of Buffalo, but also the very process of research. Odds are that it will also set new architectural standards for laboratory buildings. Built to accelerate research into the control, prevention, and cure of disease, the Buffalo Center will greatly increase through-put of scientific research from lab bench to the commercial market, and thus to patients.