Renewables will continue to replace fossil fuels in your organization’s primary/second energy mix, and two fundamental yet related changes will profoundly disrupt future research building designs: 1) shifting from distributed steam to distributed hot water, and 2) transitioning towards all-electric buildings. In this session, AEI details the implications of this transition for your upcoming projects and how to make forward-looking plan changes to accommodate them. They demonstrate re-alignment of lab designs with alternative heat sources and examine new strategies to consider for process loads including sterilization and rack washing.