View this Webcast to learn efficient, cost-effective strategies for enhancing flexibility and collaboration within scientific research and teaching facilities. Here Carrie Byles and Nazneen Cooper use Harvard University’s new 500,000 gsf Northwest Science Building as a case study to demonstrate how avoiding “hard-wiring” labs leads to research spaces that work for multiple users and can accommodate new scientists over time. They detail the designs of a facility flexible enough to support innovative cross-disciplinary research collaboration without its first occupants even being identified, and reveal how a “lab loft” design concept allows scientists to easily reassign and reconfigure space thru the use of a flexible “central nervous system” armature that leaves the bench area free of columns and vertical penetrations.

Speakers:
Nazneen Cooper – Asst. Dean for Campus Design & Planning, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
Carrie Byles, AIA, LEED AP – Managing Partner, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP