National Academies Press offers “Laboratory Design, Construction, and Renovation: Participants, Process, and Product” as a free PDF download. While somewhat old – it was published in 2000 – it remains relevant. An excerpt appears below.
TIP: Take time to explore the bibliography of any item you find helpful. It can lead to additional resources you might not have found otherwise.
The bibliography of the National Academies Press report appears below the excerpt.
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Laboratory Design, Construction, and Renovation: Participants, Process, and Product
National Academies Press, 2000
From the Executive Summary
This study does not duplicate the numerous other publications on laboratory construction (see the bibliography). It is the committee’s hope that scientist users, institutional administrators, and institutional managers will use this report to become informed users of design services and that the professional design community will use this report to enhance its ability to interact with its clients.
Laboratory facilities are complex, technically sophisticated, and mechanically intensive structures that are expensive to build and to maintain, and therefore the design, construction, and renovation of such facilities is a major challenge for all involved. Hundreds of decisions must be made before and during renovation or new construction. These decisions will determine how successfully the facility will function when completed and how successfully it can be maintained once put into service. Yet many of these decisions must be made by users and administrators whose knowledge of both basic and more laboratory specific design, construction, and renovation is minimal at the start of the project and must be rapidly increased.
This report is addressed to the scientist-user and administrator, and therefore focuses on how to have a successful laboratory facility built rather than on the detailed specifications for a successfully constructed laboratory. In this context, a successful laboratory facility is defined as one that provides effective and flexible laboratories, is safe for laboratory workers, is compatible with the surrounding environment, has the support of the neighboring community and governmental agencies, and can be constructed in a cost-effective manner. This report covers many basic aspects of design, renovation, and construction projects in general as well as specific laboratory-oriented issues. In its discussion of the latter, the committee considered primarily chemistry and biochemistry laboratories; it did not deal specifically with specialized buildings such as animal facilities, nor did it address multiple-use buildings such as teaching and research facilities. (Narum, 1995, deals with teaching laboratories.)
Overall, the general principles elucidated by the committee make its recommendations applicable to the construction or renovation of almost any laboratory building. Through its investigations the committee found that although individual projects differ, there are certain commonalities in successful laboratory construction and renovation projects. These include the right participants and a continuity of personnel; a thorough, well-defined, and thoughtful process; and a broad knowledge of the relevant issues. These common themes are discussed in Chapters 1 through 3: “Human Issues,” “Process Issues,” and “Technical Issues.” Many of these elements, especially those discussed in Chapters 1 and 2, may appear to be common sense, but they were found to have been overlooked in some of the projects described to the committee. Other themes are more specific to laboratory facilities.
Transcending specific issues and recommendations are four critical factors identified by the committee as characterizing successful laboratory construction or renovation projects:
1. A “champion” who is strongly committed to the success of the project, who has the confidence of the entire client group, and who stays with the project from beginning to end;
2. A design professional, often an architect, who has experience and dem- onstrated success in laboratory design and construction;
3. A well-defined and well-articulated process for carrying out the project from predesign through postconstruction; and
4. Clear lines of communication and authority for all participants through- out the process.
Free full text source: http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309066336 (Excellent … find appropriate excerpts from Executive Summary)
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