How Startup Design Principles Can Improve the Performance of Academic and Research Space

Modern research and academic facilities are increasingly adopting design principles typically used by small, fast-growing startup companies that depend on flexibility, innovation, and collaboration to succeed.

Novartis' Activity-Based Work Environments Have Broad Appeal

The Novartis headquarters in Sydney, Australia, demonstrates how to create a multi-tenant space where employees at all levels can choose their work setting depending on their activities, as long as there is abundant space for collaboration and informal interaction across all sectors.

Renovating the Legacy Academic Building

What the university needs: A spacious, modern science building, with an additional 5,000 sf. What the university has: An old, dark, rather cramped classroom building, built for a different era in education, with inadequate systems, and no room to expand. It’s a common problem on university campuses, and in many cases solving it requires flexibility, creativity, and patience. At the University of Pittsburgh, Howard Skoke, AIA, of EwingCole Architects and Engineers and the university’s own Ilona Beresford worked together on a six-month master plan to devise a $65 million modernization. The project, scheduled to begin construction in May 2019, will open the building to new uses and adapt its systems for health and efficiency. At the same time, it will preserve a historic exterior and cost far less than a new building.

WELL™ Buildings for Occupants’ Well-Being

The WELL Building Standard™ codifies several design and operational attributes that promote human health and wellness in the workplace.

Changing the Way Carnegie Mellon Approaches Change Management

Carnegie Mellon University is rethinking the way it approaches change management by broadening how it approaches the people involved. A workspace is not just four walls that contain an employee; there are also memories and a sense of identity tied up in that space.

EMD Serono, Inc. - A business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, GermanyProject SagaMORE

Project SagaMORE is an office building addition to a 2001 former biopharma pilot plant, the Protein Production Laboratory. In 2014 the building was converted to a high-performance collaborative office space with an industrial loft aesthetic.

OHSU Knight Cancer Institute Offers Team Science Approach to Early Detection Research

The Knight Cancer Institute at the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) is designed for the researchers of the future: up-and-coming scientists who prefer a streamlined, team approach to research, rather than being trapped by organizational limitations; a collaborative, not leader-driven,

Massachusetts General Hospital’s New Methods and Metrics for Measuring Utilization of Research Space

Massachusetts General Hospital (Mass General) in Boston is developing new methods and metrics for accurately analyzing space use data to determine how efficiently scientists utilize expensive research space. The new approach helps administrators use objective, defensible data to properly distribute limited, high-value space and resources. By leveraging the extensive data available in its custom relational database, the Research Space Management Group (RSMG) can track all research space, as well as the various types of research programs assigned to that space, including on-site, off-site, laboratory, and support spaces.

Top 10 Reports of 2017

1. Space Planning and Management Software for the 21st Century Workplace
2. Rodent Cage Technology Evolves Beyond the Simple Holding Vessel
3. The Future of Space is Flexible and People Focused
4. Centralized Research Support Facility Reaping Significant Benefits
5. Eli Lilly Employs Shared Space and Innovative Infrastructure 
6. The Gold Standard of Maker Space at MIT
7. The Future of Research Facility Design
8. Virtual and Augmented Reality are Reinventing Medical Education
9. Unique Survey Tools that Inform Design and Utilization of Academic Medical Campuses
10. Superlabs Drive Collaboration, Flexibility, and Space Efficiency in Academic Sciences

Consulting the Experts: Pressing Issues in Animal and Biocontainment Facilities

In the concluding Open Forum/Town Hall session of Tradeline’s Facility Strategies for Animal Research and Biocontainment conference, moderator Derek Westfall, president of Tradeline, and subject matter commentators, Mark Corey with Flad Architects and Tiffini Lovelace wi