Next month Payette’s Jeffrey R. Zynda will present at the Tradeline: Biocontainment Facilities Conference in San Diego.
Session Title: How the “biocontainment factor” is changing capital project processes and outcomes
Presentation: Monday, March 18 | 11:15 am
Learn here how the “biocontainment factor” in capital projects (new construction, upgrades, and modernizations) is changing project timelines, budgets, project teams, planning processes, and requirements for functional performance and compliance. Jeff Zynda profiles the major high-containment standard operating procedures (SOPs) that are dictating new stakeholder participation strategies, owner specifications, facility layouts and standard operating procedures, and decisions about flexibility. He uses case studies on recently completed projects across the United States, the EU, Russia, and others to illustrate current decision-making and project processes.
Opening later this year, the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard in Cambridge, MA is an essay in the tuning of building façades for performance. The aluminum sunshades that veil the building began as a concept tested by scoring Bristol paper. The team utilized tools from all modalities: paper models, CNC-mills, parametric studies, solar analysis, wind and water simulations and full-scale mock-ups to inform the design and drive energy use down. The ultra-high performance building is tracking a 61% reduction in energy use compared to the 2030 baseline.
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