Practical Approach To Laboratory Design Seminar Announced

Source: Labconco Corporation

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The seminar will be held at Labconco Corporation's headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri. Labconco's auditorium features comfortable seating, fully functional laboratory equipment on display and extensive audio-visual equipment. Part of the seminar's agenda will include fume hood demonstrations in Labconco's airflow testing laboratory, a 500 square foot facility where laboratory conditions can be replicated and ventilation scenarios simulated.

Early registration fee is $175 but will increase to $225 after September 27.

Two Days of Information-Packed Sessions for Individuals Involved in Laboratory Planning on October 24 & 25, 2006
Before you start your next laboratory design project, learn the essentials on laboratory planning and execution from experts in the field.

AIA Accredited
The Practical Approach to Laboratory Design Seminar provides 12 AIA-accredited learning units that qualify as Health, Safety and Welfare units - an entire year's requirement in one seminar.

Day 1 October 24
8:30 a.m. to 12 noon

Design for Success
Presenter: Steven C. Hackman, Senior Vice President/Director of Laboratory Architecture, Karlsberger
Laboratory & Technology Group, Birmingham, AL
- How to apply timeless principles of planning to any project
- Keeping it simple: why less is almost always more
- Planning considerations for research, teaching, clinical and vivarium design
- Mechanical and equipment coordination: making sense of the matrix
- Construction tips and lessons learned
- Achieving a sum greater than the parts

Trends in Design of Today's Research Labs
Presenter: Magdalena Aquino, Principal, SST Planners, Inc., Arlington, VA
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Key issues to consider in lab design
- Planning for the future
- Enhancing collaboration
- Controlling costs
- Reaching design compromises
- Current trends and future direction

12 noon to 1 p.m. Lunch
1 to 5 p.m.

Designing for the "Unknown Client"
Presenter: Scott Sandlin, Associate/Project Manager/Project Architect, Perkins & Will, Houston, TX
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Challenges of research facility design
- Managing participation and input of multiple stakeholders
- Fast track project delivery: design and construction
- Case Study: Texas A&M Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Building

Design Considerations for Biological Safety Level III Labs
Presenter: Roz Estime, Principal, The Estime Group, Portland, OR
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Functional requirements
- Layout alternatives
- Basic mechanical, electrical and plumbing considerations

Wrap Up Session/Roundtable

Day 2 October 25
8:30 a.m. to 12 noon

Current Trends in Fume Hoods
Presenter: Roz Estime, Principal, The Estime Group, Portland, OR
- Design and testing challenges
- High performance fume hoods
- Current Trends

Changes in Ventilation Standards
Presenter: Kevin Gilkison, Director of Ventilation Technologies, Labconco Corporation, Kansas City, MO

Standards and codes update for fume hoods, biological safety cabinets and other laboratory ventilation equipment

Wrap Up Session/Roundtable

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