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Filtered Fume Hoods May Dramatically Reduce Financial and Environmental Impacts
When compared to constant volume hoods (CV), variable air volume (VAV) hoods, and high-performance VAV (“low-flow”) hoods—based on a hypothetical 30-hood, 100,000-sf building—filtered hoods generate significant initial, operational, and environmental savings. This matters because chemical fume hoods used in commercial, research, and instructional laboratories are among the country’s biggest energy hogs.
Cancer and Cardiovascular Research Building
The new four-story Cancer and Cardiovascular Research Building at the University of Minnesota consists of the 158,000-sf Cancer Research Building, a 96,000-sf addition to the Lillehei Heart Research Building, and a 34,000-sf vivarium used by the entire Biomedical Discovery District. The facility houses the University’s Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, as well as two groups of investigators from Masonic Cancer Center: chemical biologists focusing on studying chemical carcinogens as a cause of cancer, and faculty focusing on novel therapeutic strategies to fight cancer.
John Edward Porter Neuroscience Research Center Phase II
The Phase II addition to the John Edward Porter Neuroscience Research Center (PNRC) houses 419 occupants, including 45 principal investigators (PIs) from 10 separate NIH Institutes, along with 374 post-doctoral researchers. The PNRC is a state-of-the-art research facility that promotes world-class biomedical neuroscience research by enhancing interdisciplinary communication and collaboration as a means of facilitating innovation and creativity.
KPIs and Metrics that Achieve Space Management Cost Savings
GlaxoSmithKline recently engaged Computerized Facility Integration (CFI) to develop an executive reporting dashboard that will give leaders the ability to track key performance indicators (KPIs) that help identify organizational opportunities and missteps. Once developed, this strategic information will help the real estate group quickly set a course to bring rapid improvement and reduced costs.
Interprofessional Resource Sharing at Academic Medical Facilities
As health science education becomes increasingly interprofessional, the design of academic medical facilities is changing to reflect this new type of learning. Collaboration is the cornerstone of interprofessional medicine, as health care providers strive to offer the best patient care. Nurturing such collaboration begins in the educational facilities where students from multiple disciplines learn the importance of working together.