Next month Payette’s Katelyn Gosselin and Jack MacDonald from Tufts University will present at the Tradeline: Facility Strategies for Academic Medicine and the Health Sciences Conference in San Diego. Will you be there?
Session: Research space utilization and reallocation: Rein in, recapture, upgrade, and redistribute!
Presentation:
Thursday, November 19, 2015 | 1:10pm-2:05pm
Friday, November 20, 2015 | 1:45pm-2:40pm
A campus-wide research space utilization and reallocation initiative is positioning Tufts University’s research programs for long-term stability and growth, and here you’ll get the details on project team formation, data gathering techniques, managing resistance, shared core facility solutions, and future-ready research environments. Session leaders chart the assess–recapture–upgrade–reallocate process and examine rationales for Core Planning Group decisions on issues including governance, appropriate utilization metrics, elimination of silos, and cross-disciplinary teams. They highlight key attributes of the new scientific cores and research workplace that improve productivity and competitiveness.
This Earth Week, we’ll be covering five landmark buildings exemplifying new approaches to building performance and sustainability.
The Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Klarman Building is the first hospital in the northeast to implement chilled beams in an inpatient setting. Early energy analysis demonstrated that the use of chilled beams would be the best way to reduce building energy use.
For this strategy to work, however, the peak thermal loads of the façades could not exceed the capacity of the chilled beams. An integrated design approach and in-house modeling allowed for constant tuning of the façade to optimize glazing, solar exposure and massing. The building orients glazing to face true north and south to minimize heat gain and maximize occupant comfort, resulting in a 15% reduction in peak solar load.
Beyond performance, the distinctive serrated terracotta façade reflects the scale and cadence of individual patient rooms, providing a delicate scale and texture to the façade.
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