New interdisciplinary research facility planning data is surfacing after several years of operational experience, and this session coalesces the new workplace benchmarks and metrics that will be critical for your next project. Session leaders demonstrate programming, design, and operational metrics, data, and benchmarks that promise robust workplace communications, improved face-time among disciplines, increased sharing of scientific tools, and faster speed to market of research findings. They illustrate the effects of space type diversity within interdisciplinary environments on strategic planning, programming, and design, and they compare allocation metrics across a variety of scientific programs.