If you’re attending the Tradeline’s Research Facilities Conference this year, you can catch PAYETTE Principal Charles Klee, AIA, LEED AP, discuss the necessity of adaptability in the design of research buildings.
Adaptability is the answer: Planning for strategic recruiting and rapidly changing research needs
Charles Klee and Amy Barrett will speak on how with reduced funding for capital projects and fierce competition for strategic hires it’s no longer affordable to onboard researchers triggering costly, customized renovations – facilities must be designed to adapt to changing needs without overinvesting. Charlie and Amy detail adaptability features for Boston University’s Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering which brings together life scientists, engineers, and physicians with shared workspace, flexible labs, and shared core research space. They chart a planning process which identifies programmatically dependent constituents, differentiates between optional and essential relationships and addresses the adaptability challenge from initial concept through project execution.
Session Details:
Thursday, April 26, | 1:10 PM – 2:05 PM
Friday, April 27 | 8:05 AM – 9:00 AM
Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel
606 Congress Street
Boston, MA 02210
Speaker Details:
Charles Klee, Principal, PAYETTE
Amy Barrett, Assistant Provost, Academic Space Planning, Boston University
We are honored to share PAYETTE has received two 2026 Green Good Design Awards from The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies—Land’s Sake Farm and The Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard.
“Green GOOD DESIGN identifies and emphasizes the world’s most important examples of sustainable design and works to develop a public awareness program that informs the general public about which global companies are doing the best job in ecological and sustainable design for our world. Architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning projects, as well as product, packaging, and graphic design projects from over 30 nations were honored with the 2026 Green GOOD DESIGN Award.”
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