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The Plant Conservation Science Center at the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe, Ill., has been selected Laboratory of the Year in the 2010 R&D Magazine Laboratory of the Year competition. An eight-story vertical expansion to Texas Children’s Hospital, Feigin Center in Houston, Texas received Honorable Mention in this year’s R&D Laboratory of the Year competition. View the announcement.

Detailed profiles of these facilities will be published in the May issue of Laboratory Design Newsletter and the June issue of R&D magazine.

 

 

Understanding Sustainability

Understanding Sustainability

Built around the idea of scientific collaboration and environmental, social, and economic sustainability, the Harvard Univ. Northwest Science Building will be used to enhance cross-disciplinary research and energy savings.

Delicate Balance

Delicate Balance

Dedicated to understanding the fundamental nature of the Earth, the Gary C. Comer Geochemistry Division lab at Columbia Univ. achieves harmony with its surroundings, while giving its researchers both form and function.

Making Lemonade from Old Labs

Making Lemonade from Old Labs

A modest, basic building once housed an advanced polymer research lab for one of India's biggest companies. After renovations the building remains, but everything else has changed for the better.

Promoting Enrollment through Renovation

Promoting Enrollment through Renovation

To help realize its goal of increasing enrollment in its chemistry program, Carleton Univ. combined its old chemistry laboratories into one Steacie SuperLab.

An Expression of Solar Research

Built around a vision of sustainability, NREL’s environmentally sound, high-performance Science & Technology Facility will be used to enhance the visibility of renewable technologies.

Collaborative Research in the Heartland

Indiana University’s Simon Hall creates an environment for current and future research in a setting that maintains one of the strongest architectural heritages in academia.

New Science Tower is a Complex Link to Campus Research

Selected for a Special Mention in R&D Magazine's 2007 Laboratory of the Year competition, the 11-story Biomedical Sciences Tower 3 (BST3), at the Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pa., has also been awarded, by other prestigious organizations, the 2006 Honor Award for Design Excellence, 2006 Building Excellence Award, and Project of the Year.

New Labs Bring Sea of Change to Woods Hole

Ocean science was still in its infancy when the first laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass., was completed in the summer of 1931. Later named for the first director, Henry Bigelow, the building was an important first step in what would become one of the world's leading non-profit research centers.

Collaborative Venture Produces Versatile Open Laboratory

The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard Univ., both of Cambridge, Mass. sought to expand and replace their facilities to accommodate their expanding research activities.

Recreating the Lost Science Paradigm

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Chevy Chase, Md., had a vision of building an advanced research center that would serve as an intellectual hub for hundreds of scientists from diverse disciplines with the long-term objective of offering creative scientists freedom from constraints that limit their ability to do groundbreaking research in conventional research settings.

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