Laboratory Design Conference

March 23-25, 2009 Hilton Rockville, Maryland (Washington, DC Arewa)

Questions about the program or tours?

Contact: Julie Higginbotham
773-282-4753
julie.higginbotham
@advantgemedia.com

JUST ADDED:

Labs21 Environmental Performance Criteria
short course
(Optional event)

Monday morning
March 23, 2009

For more information/ registration, visit:
www.i2sl.org/training/
schedule.html

Sponsored by:

Keep your project moving forward in challenging
times – attend the Spring 2009 Lab Design Conference in exciting metro DC

• Make your lab a cutting-edge research or teaching environment

• Network with key experts

• Check out the newest products and services at our vendor expo

• Gain AIA/CES or CEU hours at this fully accredited event

Special Guest Keynote: “Understanding LEED 2009
and the Status of LEED for Labs”
Deon Glaser, Manager of LEED Technical Development for the U.S. Green Building Council. Don’t miss Deon’s insider perspective on important changes in the new LEED 2009 sustainability rating tool, as well as her comments on credits with the greatest impact on laboratory projects.

The Laboratory Design Conference is a meeting place where experts in the field come together with high-level users and lab facility owners. Speakers from Perkins+Will, SmithGroup, SOM, Jacobs Consultancy, RMJM and other top firms offer presentations on sustainability, science trends, lab costs and other hot topics. This convenient, info-packed event is a must for anyone involved in creating or operating a science or research facility, including:

• Architects

• Engineers

• Builders

• Planners

• Consultants

• Owners

• High-level research executives

• Facilities managers

Sign up NOW to reserve your seat on a limited-access tour of labs at the home base facilities of prestigious federal and academic research organizations. Available only to Lab Design conference registrants, these tours will visit life sciences and engineering labs at:

• National Institutes of Standards
and Technology

• U.S. Food and Drug Administration

• Johns Hopkins University

• Science + Technology Park at
Johns Hopkins

Special event: Up Close and Personal with the 2009 Laboratory of the Year winners. Don’t miss the first public unveiling of these trendsetting projects packed with take-away techniques to apply to your lab. Winners include facilities at Harvard, Columbia, Carlton University and Reliance Industries. Meet the designers and clients; bring your questions!

www.rdmag.com/LDC

Questions? Contact:
Julie Higginbotham; 773-282-4753
julie.higginbotham@advantagemedia.com

Monday, March 23

12:00 noon
REGISTRATION OPENS

2:00
EXHIBITOR SETUP BEGINS

1:30-2:20
Research for the Global Good: New Sciences Worldwide
Dan Watch, Perkins+Will

2:20-3:10
Bench to Bedside: Brick & Mortar Implications of Translational Research
George Kemper, BHDP

3:10-3:30
BREAK

3:30-4:20
New Concepts in Physical Sciences and Engineering Buildings
Victor Cardona, SmithGroup

4:20-5:10
Creating Identity in Flexible Research Space
Anthony Morra and William Riley, Shepley Bulfinch Richardson & Abbott

5:10-6:00
Sustainable Design of Complex Laboratory Projects
Joe Phillips, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

6-7:30
COCKTAIL RECEPTION/EXHIBITS OPEN

Tuesday, March 24

7:30-8:15
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
Exhibit Area

8:15-8:30
WELCOMING REMARKS

8:30-9:20
Keynote
Understanding LEED 2009: General Issues and Lab Applicability
Deon Glaser
U.S. Green Building Council
Manager, LEED Technical Development

9:20-10:10
Split Session 1
1A: Science as a Civic Matter: Creating Urban Research Communities
Steve McDaniel, RMJM Hillier, and Joao Betelho, Champalimaud Foundation

1B: Integrating a Cleanroom Facility Into a Research Lab Design/Construction Project
Tim Loughran, AdvanceTEC

10:10-10:30
BREAK in Exhibit Room

10:30-11:20
Split Session 2
2A: Lessons in Lab Design: Going From Departmental Boxes to Open Lab Workflows
Vassilios Nicolaou, Karlsberger, and Peter Marone, Director, Laboratory Services, Yale New Haven Hospital

2B: What’s All That Noise? Improving Lab Acoustics
Rose Mary Su, Acentech

11:20-12:10
Split Session 3
3A: Creating a Research Institute in an Unlikely Place: Hudson Alpha Institute
Mark Jensen, Cooper Carry;
Hudson Alpha Institute

3B: LEED Platinum and Beyond: Core Principles for Net-Zero Design
Ted Hyman, Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects

Tuesday, March 24 (continued)

12:10-2:00
LUNCH

2:00-2:50
SPLIT Session
4A: Trying a Lab Facility on: Tenant Approaches to Lab Space
Pat Larrabee, Facility Logix

4B: Are We Failing Lab Design 101?
Josh Meyer, Jacobs Consultancy

2:50-3:40
SPLIT Session
5A: Degrees of Freedom: Two Design Approaches Within a Single Facility
David McCullough and Chris Cowansage, SST Planners 5B: Determining the Best Value of Sustainable Design Techniques Through Life-Cycle Cost Analysis
Gerald Williams and Thomas Harvath, Cannon Design

3:40-4:00
BREAK in Exhibit Room

4:00-4:15
Lab of the Year Awards Presentations

4:15-5:45
Lab of the Year Project Presentations/Discussion
Presented by LOY award winners

6:00-7:00
COCKTAIL RECEPTION in Exhibit Room

7:00
Main Conference Adjourns

Wednesday, March 25

6:30 -7:45
BREAKFAST in Hilton Restaurant
(vouchers provided for tour attendees)

2009 Lab Tours
Wednesday, March 25, 8:00-12:30

8:00: Board buses for tours

8:00-noon

TOURS (tentatively scheduled; each tour sees two facilities):

• TOUR A: NIST Advanced Measurement Laboratory, Gaithersburg, PLUS FDA Engineering and Physics Laboratory, Silver Spring

• TOUR B: Johns Hopkins University, Computational Science & Engineering Building, Baltimore, PLUS John G. Rangos Sr. Building (life sciences tenant lab facility), Science + Technology Park at Johns Hopkins, East Baltimore

Sponsor:

Exhibitors:

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