Facilities Planning, Design, Construction
Labs Under the Lens: Maximizing Resources in Research Design
The intricacies of research makes designing its environment just as complex. Investigation has helped us answer perplexing planning questions: How can you reduce laboratory energy consumption? What is the cost of flexibility? Should everything be done in the lab just because you can? From observations of laboratory operations, we have developed a base for quantifying lab design. One key: removing “non-lab” tasks from the one pass air environment frees valuable space, increases efficiency and reduces energy use. Using case studies of labs at Rice University, Texas Children's Hospital, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Texas A&M HSC and UTMB Galveston, this presentation will reveal actual use of space and reductions in construction and operating costs by re-allocating space.
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