Labs21 Phone Forum
May 12, 2003
Implementing Cost Management Strategies Into Your
Laboratory Design
On May 12, 2003, more than 50 participants dialed in for the first-ever
Labs21 phone forum on "Implementing Cost Management Strategies
into Your Laboratory Design" with a focus on pharmaceutical
laboratories.
Featured Speaker: Jay Shoemaker, AIA,
Principal & Director, Science & Technology, Francis Cauffman
Foley Hoffman, Ltd.
Cost management is an essential part of laboratory design. Given
even-tighter schedules and ever-greater pressures to reduce costs
while providing for escalating user needs, companies require sound
information on final construction costs—from the earliest conceptual
planning stage to ribbon cutting.
The phone forum introduced a laboratory design process that includes
a cost manager as an integral part of the design team, with an emphasis
on energy conservation and sustainable lab design. With examples
from the pharmaceutical industry, the presentation described how
the architect and engineer, working closely with the cost manager,
can develop creative and sustainable design alternatives and provide
the owner with the tools needed to guide and manage their own constituents.
The phone forum was hosted by the Labs21
Pharmaceutical Industry Forum.
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