Building Type Basics for Research Laboratories - Hardcover

Watch, Daniel D.; Kliment, Stephen A.; Perkins & Will

 
9780470163337: Building Type Basics for Research Laboratories

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Essential information for the design of research laboratories
 
Building Type Basics for Laboratories, Second Edition is your one-stop reference for the essential information you need to confidently begin the programming and design of a research laboratory project, large or small. In this Second Edition, architect and laboratory designer Daniel Watch brings you up to date on a broad scope of issues that are essential to the design of government, private sector, and academic research laboratories.
 
You'll find authoritative information on the project process, potential problems, design concerns, and recent trends in research laboratory design, along with complete coverage of energy issues and mechanical systems, structural concerns, lighting, internal traffic, security, and ADA issues.
 
In addition, the new edition addresses such factors as the global research marketplace, the shift from individual- to team-based research; applied computer technology requiring sophisticated electronic communication systems; post-9/11 research needs and trends, including the current International Building Codes; and sustainable design.
 
Stressing the need for flexibility in design, this quick-reference guide:
* Addresses twenty key questions that arise when launching a research laboratory design project
* Offers insight from leaders in the industry based on their own design experience
* Provides more than 200 illustrations--project photographs, diagrams, floor plans, sections, and details--of laboratory construction around the globe, including Asia, the Middle East, and Europe
 
Building Type Basics books provide architects with the essentials needed to jump-start specialized facilities design. Each volume features leading experts in the field who address the issues that shape the early phases of a project in a convenient, easy-to-use format that will save you countless hours of research.

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Daniel D. Watch, AIA, is an architect and research expert with the Atlanta office of Perkins+Will, one of the largest American architecture firms designing laboratory facilities. Watch is a leader in the firm's Science & Technology group, coordinating the design of laboratory facilities for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Homeland Security's NBACC and NBAF research buildings, several academic research buildings, and six projects based in China since publication of the first edition. He has been invited to speak at the National Institutes of Health, the Academy of Sciences in Beijing, Harvard University, Edinburgh's Science Parks, and University of Cambridge, England.
 
Stephen A. Kliment, FAIA, the series founder and editor, is an architectural journalist and an adjunct professor at the City College of New York. He was editor in chief of Architectural Record from 1990 to 1996.

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Essential information for the design of research laboratories
 
Building Type Basics for Laboratories, Second Edition is your one-stop reference for the essential information you need to confidently begin the programming and design of a research laboratory project, large or small. In this Second Edition, architect and laboratory designer Daniel Watch brings you up to date on a broad scope of issues that are essential to the design of government, private sector, and academic research laboratories.
 
You'll find authoritative information on the project process, potential problems, design concerns, and recent trends in research laboratory design, along with complete coverage of energy issues and mechanical systems, structural concerns, lighting, internal traffic, security, and ADA issues.
 
In addition, the new edition addresses such factors as the global research marketplace, the shift from individual- to team-based research; applied computer technology requiring sophisticated electronic communication systems; post-9/11 research needs and trends, including the current International Building Codes; and sustainable design.
 
Stressing the need for flexibility in design, this quick-reference guide:
* Addresses twenty key questions that arise when launching a research laboratory design project
* Offers insight from leaders in the industry based on their own design experience
* Provides more than 200 illustrations--project photographs, diagrams, floor plans, sections, and details--of laboratory construction around the globe, including Asia, the Middle East, and Europe
 
Building Type Basics books provide architects with the essentials needed to jump-start specialized facilities design. Each volume features leading experts in the field who address the issues that shape the early phases of a project in a convenient, easy-to-use format that will save you countless hours of research.

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ISBN 10:  0471392367 ISBN 13:  9780471392361
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2001
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