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Apr 13 | Articles
How do you attract the best and brightest? How do you retain the best
and brightest? From ATT's Bell Labs, to Xerox's PARC, to Apple's campus
in Cupertino, to Google's Googleplex, the business campus has been an
intangible aid in attracting and retaining bright people and fostering
creativity. In today's world, universities are recognizing the campus as
a potent physical symbol of the institution’s "brand" in recruitment.
Mar 7 | News
Phase 1 of upgrades to the materials science and fuel-testing
laboratories at Brookhaven National Laboratory included facilities in
the Condensed Matter Physics & Materials Science Department
(Building 480) and the Global and Regional Solutions Directorate's
Applied Physical and Chemical Sciences building (Building 815).
Mar 1 | News
The University of California-Riverside School of Medicine Research
Building has received a Special Mention in the 2012 Laboratory of the
Year competition.
Jan 9 | News
Keep moving forward with the 2012 Laboratory
Design Conference.
12/13/2011 | Articles
Sustainable architect Bruce McLean Haxton, BMH Architect, Rhinelander,
Wis., and Russ Drinker, managing principal, Perkins+Will Architects, San
Francisco, organized the "Pursuing Net Zero Energy Laboratories"
teleconference, which was held this past June. This article summarizes
the first of nine presentations by teams creating NZE laboratories.
12/13/2011 | Articles
In part two of the NZE Teleconference, Bill O'Dell, HOK, discusses KAUST.
12/13/2011 | Articles
In part seven of the NZE Teleconference, Ted Hyman, Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects, discusses the net zero energy concepts in the J. Craig Venter Institute Laboratory.
12/12/2011 | Articles
Our appreciation for the quality of what we eat and drink is
increasingly shaped by an understanding of how that food and drink are
produced. The Teaching and Research Winery and the August A. Busch III
Brewing and Food Science Laboratory (WBF) at the University of
California-Davis is a pilot facility that integrates wine making,
brewing, and food processing with discovery and learning programs.
10/5/2011 | News
New LEED Gold facility will includes two nursing labs, two biology labs,
a respiratory lab, a dental lab, and lab space for the Emergency
Medical Service Institute.
8/15/2011 | Articles
It is probably safe to say that most people would not advocate
deliberately damaging the
environment, especially if there is no advantage in doing so. But profit
and value also play a
role in many of the choices we have to make. If the design solutions we
advocate to help preserve
the natural world are not financially feasible, they are not likely to
be implemented. We have to
evaluate what our ideas will cost, both initially and in the long term,
as well as how well they
will work.
