This is an excellent, hands-on reference that puts critical information at your fingertips.
Building Type Basics for Research Laboratories provides the essential information
needed to initiate designs for government, academic, and private research laboratories.
It is filled with project photographs, diagrams, floor plans, sections, and details, it also
combines in-depth coverage of the structural, mechanical, energy, cost, and safety issues
that are unique to research laboratories with the nuts-and-bolts design guidelines that will
start any project off on the right track and keep it there through completion.
Contents
- New Design Model
- Social Building for Team-Based Research
- "Open" Versus "Closed" Labs
- Flexibility
- Designing for Technology
- Sustainability
- Science Parks
- Laboratory Types
- Private Sector Labs
- Government Labs
- Academic Labs
- Architectural Design Issues
- Programming, Design, and Construction Process
- General Architectural Design Issues
- Lab Module-Basis for Laboratory Design
- Site Planning
- Exterior Image
- Building Massing
- Interior Image
- Adjacencies
- Interior Finishes
- Acoustical Issues
- Ergonomics
- Fume Hoods
- Safety, Security, and Regulatory Considerations
- Wayfinding, Signage, and Graphics
- Specialized Lab Areas
- Specialized Equipment and Equipment Spaces
- Vivarium Facilities
- Engineering Design Issues
- Structural Systems
- Mechanical Systems-General Design Issues
- Fume Hoods-Mechanical System Design Issues
- Electrical Systems
- Lighting Design
- Telephone/Data System
- Information Technology
- Closets
- Audiovisual Engineering for Presentation Rooms
- Plumbing Systems
- Commissioning
- Renovation/Restoration/Adaptive Reuse
- Faculty Management Issues
- Cost Guidelines
- Project Costs
- Affordability/Value Engineering
- Project Delivery Options
- Trends in Project Financing
- Summary of Cost Issues
Appendix
Laboratories of the 21st Century Initiative
Index
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