Laboratories and Cores
Traditional to Translational & Theme Based
Risk-based Zoning
Vivaria Trends
Of the 100 strongest partnerships between two institutions around the world, nearly half are between research organizations in the same city, some are only a few kilometres apart.“If we place collaborators on a world map we do see very strong spatial clustering in a very limited number of hotspots ...”
Risk-based Zoning reduces hazards and construction cost while increasing flexibility for the typical academic health center lab. This changes the concept of a research environment to wet, damp and dry zones. Creating the flexibility between zones allows for changes in research program and drives lowest energy use solutions as we move towards net zero research buildings.
Risk-based Zoning
Rethinking the standard approach to laboratory design involves recognizing the shifts from departments to theme-based research. Research has largely moved from individual to team sciences. Designing the facility for knowledge transfer and exporting knowledge outside the PI team has become increasingly important.
Traditional to Translational & Theme Based
Incorporating these trends into design creates collaborative environments for translation, reduces hazards, capital costs and energy use through risk-based zoning, and supports the rebalancing of time from hands-on bench experiments to data analytics.
Laboratories and Cores
Programs
Adaptibility for team-based science and engineering
Open, flexible labs with apporpriate support space
Fumehood placement strategies and design for ventilation effectiveness
Reduced chemical use and heat loads
Hazards
Integration of lab and dry workplace. Increased space for analytics and dry research
Increase in data analysis, computational modeling, dry and clinical research
Data
Three major trends are driving the academic health center labs of the future:
Add supplement heating and cooling
More efficient vivarium
Segregate support space by use
Move workplace out of the lab
Confine hazards
10 strategies to get to Net Zero
Create airtight envelope
Supplement with renewable energy
Minimize power demand
Recover energy
Reduce exhaust
Academic health center animal resources have had difficulty keeping up with the growth in demand and differentiation of research animal models. Increasing capacity and flexibility with lower cost and energy use are critical drivers.
Vivaria Trends
Riccardo Crescenzi, professor of economic geography at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Factors Driving Biomedical Vivaria Facility Design:
Automation
Barrier animals
Need more “flex” spaces
More cages = more support
Collaboration areas
Inform resource capacity needs within the plan, accounting for real-world operational variables.
Review findings and prioritize process improvement opportunities for future state planning and design.
Document operational wastes and inefficiencies from a Lean perspective.
Observe current state operations – flow of materials and supplies, staff and research animals – and key process steps.
Industrial engineering, Lean operations assessments, and process improvement can have a major impact on vivarium operations, cost, efficiency, and capacity. Combined with predictive analytics and computational modeling, it creates new opportunities for vivarium analysis, planning, and design.
Vivaria Optimization
Examples: long travel distances, excessive material etc., etc.
Understanding human behavior and the physical environment that can affect those behaviors informs our approach to designing research facilities at Academic Health Centers. Creating safe facilities that enable collaboration to advance discovery to improve public health is of utmost importance.
Research Strategy and Analytics
Workplace, Facilities, and Centers
Vivaria Trends
Risk-based Zoning
Traditional to Translational & Theme Based
Laboratories and Cores
Incorporating these trends into design creates collaborative environments for translation, reduces hazards, capital costs and energy use through risk-based zoning, and supports the rebalancing of time from hands-on bench experiments to data analytics.
Laboratories and Cores
Rethinking the standard approach to laboratory design involves recognizing the shifts from departments to theme-based research. Research has largely moved from individual to team sciences. Designing the facility for knowledge transfer and exporting knowledge outside the PI team has become increasingly important.
Traditional to Translational & Theme Based
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Current State and Future State
Integrated Living Master Plans
Reshaping the Campus
Smart Start
Integrated Living Master Planning
Infrastructure and Energy
Economics, Real Estate, Phasing
Sustainability and Resiliency
Precincts and Development Zones
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Understanding human behavior and the physical environment that can affect those behaviors informs our approach to designing research facilities at Academic Health Centers. Creating safe facilities that enable collaboration to advance discovery to improve public health is of utmost importance.
Research
Workplace, Facilities, and Centers
Animals
Researchers
Staff
Supplies/Waste
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Procedures
Information
Vivaria Optimization
Vivaria Optimization
Education and Academics
Research
Healthcare
Integrated Centers
Workplace, Facilities, and Centers
Infrastructure and Energy
Economics, Real Estate, Phasing
Reshaping the Campus
Smart Start
Integrated Living Master Planning
Current State and Future State
Integrated Living Master Plans
Sustainability and Resiliency
Precincts and Development Zones
Community Development
Education and Workplace
AHC Database
Research Strategy and Analytics
Health Strategy and Analytics
Strategy and Analytics
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