Reinventing Teaching Laboratories at Community Colleges
Toni Loiacano, LEED®
AP, DSA Architects, a member of SHW Group
This poster will show examples of community college
teaching projects that utilize:
- Laboratories and Sustainability
- Utilizing the concept of sustainability holistically in
laboratories, balancing initial costs and life cycle costs.
- Using efficient laboratory planning: addressing real needs
and providing future expansion.
- Installing daylighting in laboratories and classrooms.
- Selecting material carefully.
- Using integral energy-efficient mechanical, electrical,
and plumbing design.
- Addressing the exterior landscape as a sustainable, renewable
laboratory.
- Laboratory Renovation
- Maximizing cost efficiency in laboratory design and planning.
- Maximizing reuse and flexibility of existing laboratory
facility.
- Laboratory Planning
- Putting science on display, using unique aesthetics that
showcase laboratories.
- Using architectural design to reflect the integration of
laboratory, classrooms, and collaborative space, enhancing
the learning environment, and facilitating constructivist curriculum.
Biography:
Toni Loiacano has planned
and programmed many higher education facilities. Her current programming
projects include science laboratories at: College of Education and
Human Sciences; Central Michigan University Science Center; North
Central Michigan College School of Engineering; Midwestern State
University Center for Excellence in Bioengineering and Life Sciences;
Kettering University Southeast Expansion; Tarrant County Community
College District University Center; Lansing Community College Biomedical
Technology Center; Schoolcraft College Center for Health Professions;
Jackson Community College Academic Building Addition/Renovation;
and Bryn Mawr College.
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